Thank you for your wonderful coverage on this incident as well as the wonderful help through the boating community. Blessings to you and yours coming at you from the hills of southern oregon
It’s good to see they are able to get the boat upright. However I think the canals are so poorly maintained they want serious dredging boats are often going aground because there is no depth to them.
My comment was the CRT might consider removing some of the obstacle brickwork. And the town allowing some kind of signage to indicate which archway is useable
It's possibly an insurance write off, almost everything inside damaged and water soaked, engine flooded, hull dented (as shown on here). Interior steel panelling that would never normally get wet has done and will start to rust.
@@lablackzed ...and the cost of the docking (or lifting out and dry land storage), stripping & disposal of scrap fittings, drying, resealing vs cost of a new hull? It will always have the history, necessary to declare if sold later.
Thank you so very much for uplosding this video.😁😁 On my 'TABS' around the villages, i have been looking out for this recovery and missed it.😥 Firstly. You are quite correct in your response to the Trolls. Well done!👍👍🤜🤜 As a Military Veteran of the REME. Even though i was not a Recovery Mechanic, i crewed a few Recovery vehicles in my time. Recovering any vehicle presents many challenges and i applud the guys involved in this recovery task.👍👍🤜🤜👏👏👏👏 Well done to everyone involved and a Special WELL DONE to you in covering this recovery in such detail.👏👏👏👏
♥ Thank you and thank you for promoting aid to these peeps. Those recovery peeps really took care of the boat. Well done. Donated a fiver to the other fella. Hope he/she gets some help from others. At least this narrowboat is still floating.
Excellent coverage. Thank you, sir. Appreciate all you have done and are doing to not only help the owner of that boat but inform us viewers of the salvage operation.
Thanks for all of your videos about this. I’m so glad to see the boat has been recovered at last, although in such a sad state. Every good wish to the owner for the restoration, my heart went out to them when I saw what had happened. I hope they can turn it into a lovely home again
It's a joy to watch professionals doing their thing and compared to the last lot it's night and day. So glad to see her recovered safely and I hope she is her old self ASAP. Nice video and good commentary.
Brilliant video and very informative. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Hopefully the boat can be soon brought back to a family home. Dave from Corvid Compassion Leicestershire. 👍
And this is how it should have been done to begin with! proper heavy recovery firm (crouches) and a team of marine experts! exactly like i said on video where RCR sank the boat....... well done chaps!
Deja vu for me...I had a 60ft wooden narrowboat in 1986 which decided to break mooring and sink right in the Middle of the Grand Union well below the hull line so it couldnt be pumped out. British Waterways had a dredger nearby which came along and broke it up. I was then invoices for £1,700 which was about half my then salary and took me about 3 years to pay off. I only discovered the boat was uninsurable having bought it! Not to be put off i bought a new Liverpool Boats 40ft shell and fitted that out with some of the bits I salvaged such as the windows and Lister engine.
thanks for the update , glad the boats uprighted again , i bet the owner will be glad to get his boat back , he'll probably have to get all new furniture & cupboards , how heartbreaking .
Great video 👍 followed the story of this boat from the very first video and glad it’s now floating the correct way up and hopefully it can be refitted and saved. Surprised me how long it took them to get it out but as you mentioned they had a few difficulties with the depth of the water and the bridge.
Each time the winch was repositioned and lines attached took around half hour, sounds long but a lot of this was done by boat, I did think myself it would be just a few hours.
I lost my boat in the Holyhead marina disaster. It was raised after 3 months on the sea bed but was a total loss. I then moved onto my narrowboat on the River Weaver, but after 2 record breaking floods that nearly destroyed the marina I was at, I vowed to never moor on tidal waters or a river in winter time again. it's just not worth the risk and heartache. Some say this boat is a right off, but I know plenty of boats that have been restored after such disasters. It just takes time and money.
The guys done a great job, I've found this very interesting to watch, thank you for following this whole sorry business. I hope the owners can recover from this and get their boat refitted and back on the water for them to enjoy once more...
Having seen many RU-vid videos this not the first time a boat has been in that position on the Barrow road bridge. Listed building or not the bridge needs modifications. Thanks for the update
aw man, gutting to see that much damage to someones home, really hope the boat is savable, it'll cost a fortune and it'll be months and thousands to get her back up and running, thanks for uploading the video.
Thats great news, but now the real work starts, its heart rending to see the interior, thanks for updating us all. How are they (the owners) getting on, o.k. i hope.
Hopefully the crews involved will document the issues and resolve so they can be more knowledgeable in future for recovery as I’m sure this will happen again. Thank you for documenting the whole episode and to @crouchrecovery944 also to @CBS
Great to know the boat is upright ‘again!’ Fingers crossed for the owners. As a CC I dread this happening! I was reading about a barge yesterday (same scenario) no one will help, insurance company won’t help - until the boat is moved!? = Nightmare scenario!
I can’t imagine why, anyone would ‘troll’ anyone on here providing good content on channels like this … has a boater myself, a liveaboard, my heart goes out to the owner, I keep all my valuables in storage and have a very minimal life aboard … so sad to think someone may have lost almost everything in a situation like this… great video, doing good… Trolls can do one, horrible destructive and dull!
It is good to see this narrow boat has been recovered. Though should this incident have got so bad in the first place, when this narrow boat When it first broke lose from its mooring because of fast flowing and raising flood water, then taken by the high flood water up onto and against the bridge. If the emergency services and canal authorities, had acted sooner to save and recover this narrow boat, while it was still upright. Not wait so long for the flood water to started dropping, which caused this narrow boat to capsize and sink plus be in the damaged state it is now in too. Though it is very good to see public donations, towards the price of recovering this narrow boat, to help the owner, is lovely to see this level of kindness. Lastly good reporting on your RU-vid Video channel, over this incident, clearly has help no end, well done to yourself too.
Thanks for the update really feel for the owners could be an insurance write off the damage is a lot worse than I thought it would be good luck to them
Great to see they got boat out,maybe they can do a similar thing and remove a burnt out semi submerged narrow boat that’s in Leicester and right on a bend,been there for maybe 6 months now.
Well well well! I’ve commented twice on this story before. This was the correct procedure in the first place. Tracked machine on that bank pulling it out of the current. The first attempt was completely incorrect, they sank that boat. The machine is built on a murooka tracked dumper chassis,Proper job done.👍 thanks for posting.
@@NarrowboatSuperB it was made special for Crouch, a one off. My company clears bridges in North Yorkshire for the county council, we would have pulled that boat off the main flow onto that bank with a tracked machine. I’m amazed that the local council didn’t do anything to get that off the bridge ASAP. Up here they are very precious of their bridges since Tadcaster bridge collapsed a few years back, we’ve cleared it 2 x this last few months. The price that they charged to lift that boat was very reasonable. Once again thank you for sharing.👍
Ah, that explains it then Jim, a one off made for the company. I too was surprised that Highways did not get involved, the pressure against that bridge must have been massive.
Dang that reminds me of the freighter stuck at a bridge across the Danube several years ago. They needed a tug and a tank on the river bank dragging against the current to get it unstuck...
Oh man - this brings tears to your eyes. Superb work by the CBS and Crouch guys - seriously difficult work handled very professionally. But the boat is a total loss surely?
Very good video,when they get the boat back they would be best going in to a marina juring a storm for a couple of days,at sawley where i,m, they watch the boats like a hawk it is very reassuring .
It is a crane, but with some unusual certification :o) The winches won’t have several factors of safety over the rope, it’s a: pull until you break something. The jib is probably protected by a relief valve so the winches can’t overload it. Nice rig, me wanty :o)
The effort you've put into the who sorry story of the sinking is in it's sell quite phenomenal so I take my hat off to you sir. Now she's been removed the hard work starts. Maybe a replacement boat would be a faster option.
Had a look yesterday, there is a massive crease midships where she was resting on an old stone support under the surface, this could be pushed out when heated up but then does that just move it somewhere else along the boat.
Great lads cbs worked with them many times on boat lifts i knew they would float it and not lift of the bridge i guess it will be floated to pillings lock and lifted there.
This has been a long and, I assume, extremely difficult situation. Is this the bridge over the Soar, just down the road from the roundabout by Barrow-upon-Soar station? I had a friend who lived on that roundabout and spent many happy weekends there. We used to amble down to the pub next to the bridge for a pint. Hell of a spot to wreck a boat! I've enjoyed your videos on the subject though, very informative.
Yes David, this is that same bridge, the pub on the left is The Soar Bridge Inn, the other side of the road is the Moorings pub, can't remember what it's previous name was.
Shame to see this, someone's pride and joy in such a state, looks very recoverable though. Also seems about time the management of our waterways spent some money on clearing debris and rubbish from the waterways instead of hoarding the money or paying huge salaries to those that do the least, like the top dogs.
Unfortunately when this happens to any boat most of the time the structure is compromised... There was a lot of pressure put on the structure.. It will need a in-depth survey by a structural engineer.. just to see if it's worth a refit. .. Most of the time the insurance company will decide to write it off.. I hope they don't .for the sake of the owner . They will take into account .what it costs for hotel accomodation .till the boat is repaired which could take months.
You make a good point. I'd not thought about lateral pressure on the structure due to holding back the water wanting to get around it. In any event, it's a back to bare shell, a complete strip out and start again.
We used to (in the 1960s) moor during school holidays our caning cruiser along side a concreted platform pretty close to where the action is. Just down stream from the lock the “river” joins the canal from the left if I’m correct. The concrete pad & the large grassed area apparently used be used by a fun fair prior to the 1960’s.
