Free Flatbottom

« **Reply #450 on:** July 20, 2009, 01:55:47 PM »

I think we should leave it be! Its in its grave...

« **Reply #451 on:** August 26, 2009, 09:50:02 PM »

next time ill skip to the end of a thread here to make sure there was progress...

« **Reply #452 on:** August 26, 2009, 09:58:52 PM »

Quote from: burn504 on August 26, 2009, 09:50:02 PM

next time ill skip to the end of a thread here to make sure there was progress...

lol, bring a tow boat and a empty trailer for a flat bottom . we all can go get it. Our last tow boat exploded, burned and sank!

« **Reply #453 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:20:04 PM »

Im in San Diego... id love to help.

« **Reply #454 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:24:06 PM »

4 hour drive....hint hint

Its a good idea to go get it but this being SoCalJetBoats most of the people are in SoCal and there is a lack of scheduling of man power here in Vegas. Everyone works different schedules, etc.

One day, maybe

« **Reply #455 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:33:39 PM »

one man job... bring a chainsaw and cut it into a 5 pieces..lol

« **Reply #456 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:42:17 PM »

At least we have a spare trailer, lol

Ray

« **Reply #457 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:58:56 PM »

Quote from: IRRebel on August 26, 2009, 10:42:17 PM

At least we have a spare trailer, lol

Ray

Your right, we do. Now go ahead and convert it for a flattie!

« **Reply #458 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:08:24 PM »

LOL !!! I cant believe you guys still dont have this thing home by now. Just go get it, 2sav needs a new project !!

Dont make me come out there

« **Reply #459 on:** March 10, 2010, 11:39:23 PM »

So is thing even above water

I'd love to go see it .

-beerjet-

« **Reply #460 on:** March 10, 2010, 11:49:20 PM »

I think it's on the complete other side of the lake from where we'll be this weekend, Omar. I'd like to see it as well! Would really like to see someone recover it and build sumpin, lol. Loaned out a tow boat once on it, looks like it might take some of us to just go and DO it, lol. Dunno if it's under water now or not tho.

Ray

« **Reply #461 on:** March 11, 2010, 05:53:13 AM »

based on where the water lines were when josh went a couple of weeks ago, i would say its above water.

it was 1/2 under water when terry and i looked at it last spring and the water level was 5' or so higher then what is seen in joshs pictures from a couple of weeks ago.

« **Reply #462 on:** March 11, 2010, 07:53:10 AM »

19 pages and 19 months . . . this may turn out to be the longest thread on an unstarted project ever

« **Reply #463 on:** March 11, 2010, 05:19:11 PM »

Quote from: GlassCutter on March 11, 2010, 07:53:10 AM

19 pages and 19 months . . . this may turn out to be the longest thread on an unstarted project ever

I'd like to go out there one day and snap some of my own pictures .
It probably has a bitchin story behind it.

-beerjet-

« **Reply #464 on:** March 11, 2010, 06:18:44 PM »

Quote from: beerjet on March 11, 2010, 05:19:11 PM

I'd like to go out there one day and snap some of my own pictures .
It probably has a bitchin story behind it.

-beerjet-

X2!!!

Reminds me of a bud of mine, I met well after the burning and sinking of MY Beisemeyer. Learned a few months ago that he too sank a Beisemeyer in the same lake! Was years ago, and the boat was less than a few months old at the time. Basically swamped by other ignorant boaters, as I understand it, and him being inexperienced, well.....sounds all too familiar to me! (We call it Beisey Lake now)

He has this Sonar dealio now and has been mapping the lake bottom lately to see if he can find it again! I guess they couldn't back then. He has found what's left of mine, though!

That Flat Bottom might well have an even more interesting story to tell! Still would be cool as hell to bring it back to life! Why I was so adamant about it. Still am, really!

Ray

« **Reply #465 on:** March 11, 2010, 07:27:55 PM »

it's probably close to the water line right about now...i still havent even gotten to see it yet, but i will this summer!

« **Reply #466 on:** March 12, 2010, 02:47:05 PM »

Well it's obvious that the people who know where it is can't or won't get it so let the location be known. Let The Swamp Thing be recovered by someone, anyone with the moxie get it and take it home. I suspect that since so much time has lapsed that the wood in it is full of little living things and the motor would be best used as an anchor.

« **Reply #467 on:** March 16, 2010, 08:02:36 PM »

That boat will be a soggy piece of delaminated shit. The engine will be rusted out junk. Maybe you can salvage the v-drive but that isn't too likely either... It's also illegal to take anything out of Lake Mead (that's what Greg from vesseil assist told me).