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Did a boat run a ground on the rocks at Davaar Island during the night?

Anyone got a picture?

Hoots the scoop man!

What boat was it? Anyone know??

the boat is called good hope from portavogie,ran ashore on thurs nite and was pulled off by the marigold on fri at teatime,nobody hurt.

Phew! Thank God!

the special one wrote:the boat is called good hope from portavogie,ran ashore on thurs nite and was pulled off by the marigold on fri at teatime,nobody hurt.

Good Hope at Campbeltown slipway for inspection and a few repairs.

Disna look too worse for the wear!

it ran aground on the other side.

AHA!

how are they going to inspect it then

abbey craig wrote:how are they going to inspect it then

re-float it & see if it sinks... thats quite a good inspection, you definetly find out if its damaged.

it wasnt taking very much water so they just patched it up,its awa to portavogie then onto the slip in kilkeel for repairs. the boys on the boat were telln me that the police breathalised them as soon as they got off the lifeboat! ridiculous!!! next thing the police will be breathalising u when u come aff a football pitch!

the special one wrote:it wasnt taking very much water so they just patched it up,its awa to portavogie then onto the slip in kilkeel for repairs. the boys on the boat were telln me that the police breathalised them as soon as they got off the lifeboat! ridiculous!!! next thing the police will be breathalising u when u come aff a football pitch!

On a serious note Special One - why is it ridiculous? Surely, you would expect the police to do this if there was a car accident? Why should boats be any different? Amazes me how people can drink and drive in boats - rather strange.

Buzz Lightyear wrote:

abbey craig wrote:how are they going to inspect it then

re-float it & see if it sinks... thats quite a good inspection, you definetly find out if its damaged.

or maybe the insurance company employ small people to crawl between the pier and the boats hull
or maybe i`m wrong here but if it was faceing the other way would it be easier to inspect.
as "it ran aground on the other side"

Aha! That is what I was thinking - thunk, thought - darnit!

i'm saying nowt about portavogie boats running aground, first time i've heard of one going ashore on the way in, its usually on the way home in the early hours of a friday morning after the "shindig" i've even seen the odd one ashore at the memorial of a morning, but thats got nothing to do with a story in the history file of last weeks local press, eh davie?

oops, i said i was going to say nothing, didn't i?