Abandoned Boats of Salt Spring Island

Peter Prince checks out the activities of the Veins of Life Watershed Society, and the hard work of local volunteers cleaning up Ganges Harbour of abandoned boats and other debris polluting coastal community waterways and beaches.

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[siamsurf]

omg, how can you take such a nice boat and rip it apart?! I would have paid money for it, and I bet a lot more would have taken it off your hands for free... what a waste.

[porpoisefathom]

no dont contact the emergency preparedness program call the local boatbuilder or the poor without affordable housing or invest in the restoration and sale of good boats like that and make a profit!- recycle it! you contradict your green philosophy...

i dont see this comment getting posted because its too real- but at least it gets said...

i build boats and know a good one when i see it--and i make steel boats which arent going to be cut up with chainsaws..go try that on mine..

[porpoisefathom]

@Pooshooter5k if the guy tells us the frp lasts for hundreds of years then restore them! what he says doesnt make sense...

[porpoisefathom]

inanity! U cant see the $ of that vessel-- can be used as a mold-or-re-glassed, or sheathed in fer-a-lite. these boats could.solve housing issues- be recycled--or otherr number of positive ways - this goes over heads of guys like u. so-focus on that crap hull in the water not the one you just destroyed!! and stop buying new boats which end up on your beaches and re-use ones like these !!? its guys like you who follow the herd that dont like poorer people to have a decent boat!

[skeilak]

Oh, for Heaven sake. How big a problem are abandoned boats?

If they're wood, the ocean will dissolve them in a few years. If they're fiberglass, who cares? They're not hurting anything.

Lead paint? There isn't enough lead on that boat to contaminate a birdbath.

Oil, gasoline, old engine blocks? Petroleum evaporates, steel rusts.

Mercy! How did the oceans ever survive World War 2?

Worry about real pollution sources, not silly "feel good" nonsense.

[my94holden]

man i would of like to have that boat

[dedicateddad]

That boat looked like it had real potential for restoration....

I hate to see vintage craft destroyed, though I understand the need to clear the beach...

I helped clear a number of sinkers from the SF bay off Sausalito many years ago, so I DO understand...

Still...

[Ltownyn1]

The Boats are removed and then tipped in to a dump. That seems worse than leaving the ships to rot.

[2turtlesdo]

is that the ss minnow?

[Pooshooter5k]

@telemetry9 Most of these boats are very old thus the reason they are abandon and not sold. So many of the manufacturers don't exist any more and many of the environmental concerns of today did not exist when these boats were made. They also can not control what items people bring onto the boats and leave there before abandoning them. Many are filled with garbage before being abandoned.