Sunken Boat Salvage to Float Again

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Before wake boats shallow draft would work on Powell but not now.
I used one also but very cautiously
Got caught in a big T storm just north of Bullfrog and dove into a cove and laid up for 5 hrs until the waters calmed down.
It was after dark when we got back to the houseboat.
 
Cliff said:
Before wake boats shallow draft would work on Powell but not now.
I used one also but very cautiously
Got caught in a big T storm just north of Bullfrog and dove into a cove and laid up for 5 hrs until the waters calmed down.
It was after dark when we got back to the houseboat.
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I’ve been going long before wake boats. There have always been big wakes and big storms. Shallow gunwales like on that boat have always been trouble at Lake Powell. That boat sunk in 1993.
 
In the "Reuniting Owners..." video the owner talks about "the island that used to be there". For those who never visited Powell during its glory days, the island was Castle Rock. There used to be a paddle wheel dinner cruise boat that would go and around castle rock. If one got lucky and scored one of the few campsites on the north side of Castle Rock you could watch the boat cruise by as you were eating hotdogs or catfish. It was always a treat.

Of course for the 80's and 90's Powell veterans sorry for explaining the obvious.
 
I’m a veteran but of what used to be the north lake (Hite) and mid lake (Bullfrog) so this was unknown and interesting to me. (also an alum of UofA, go Wildcats!)

Thanks Tucson, it’s great to have that visual and understanding of what the owner was referring to and the shared thoughts / memories about shore camping. Our go-to shore camping was Farleys Canyon way up north and a few times at Stanton Creek (outside of Bullfrog).
 
Rainbowbridge said:
That brings back memories. I had one of those Berkeley jet boats with the requisite 455 Olds in the 80s.

With two 30 gal saddle tanks, It would go through 60 gallons of gas in half an afternoon...... :LOL:

The most fun was the 'jetovator' where you could raise the jet stream and it would be like a fire hose that shot water 100'.

Was fun to ski through the torrent.....but I inadvertently soaked two people on the dock once taking off....

Opps, I still feel bad about that. It was cold salt water in San Diego bay.....:rolleyes:

probably gonna have to atone for that one. I'll let you know if we can access WW from 'Boater's Hell'

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On the lake I grew up on, one of my neighbors had a boat like that with the 455 Olds And jet drive. Of course that brings out the competition so another neighbor had a custom boat built with a V drive and Corvette engine. And yeah, you never did sudden stops with them or you would sink. I was only a teen but of course my friends and I did what we could. Someone found a design for a mini hydroplane. It was something like eight or so feet long and the most you could put on it was a 25 hp outboard. Also, like the other boats, you had to be careful about swamping it. But boy did that thing go once we got the right prop. A light chop on water was perfect. You only contacted the water in the two front outboard edges and the transom - just like a big boy hydroplane. Realistically, the thing was a death trap and we knew it. After playing it for one summer, we sold it.
 
Kekus said:
On the lake I grew up on, one of my neighbors had a boat like that with the 455 Olds And jet drive. Of course that brings out the competition so another neighbor had a custom boat built with a V drive and Corvette engine. And yeah, you never did sudden stops with them or you would sink. I was only a teen but of course my friends and I did what we could. Someone found a design for a mini hydroplane. It was something like eight or so feet long and the most you could put on it was a 25 hp outboard. Also, like the other boats, you had to be careful about swamping it. But boy did that thing go once we got the right prop. A light chop on water was perfect. You only contacted the water in the two front outboard edges and the transom - just like a big boy hydroplane. Realistically, the thing was a death trap and we knew it. After playing it for one summer, we sold it.
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Pictures?
 
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