Wow, sorry about your lost boat.
As others have mentioned, please keep us informed as to the eventual findings from the insurance investigation.
Maine Sail lists all the possible causes I can think of and anothe poster mentioned a purposeful scuttling. I find it strange that 3 boats have sunk in that short a time frame in that one morning field. We have few morning fields here, but in all my years around the docks I have only had personal knowledge of one boat that came close to sinking and a quick call to vessel assist got pumps to the boat long before it was critical.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it take a long time for a boat to sink short of a catastrophic failure such as a large drain hose failure below waterline? Even in that case, the bilge pump would have been valiantly trying to keep the boat afloat for a while and I would think that other boaters would have noticed either a boat riding low in the water or one that has a continuos flow of water from its bilge pump?
As others have mentioned, please keep us informed as to the eventual findings from the insurance investigation.
Maine Sail lists all the possible causes I can think of and anothe poster mentioned a purposeful scuttling. I find it strange that 3 boats have sunk in that short a time frame in that one morning field. We have few morning fields here, but in all my years around the docks I have only had personal knowledge of one boat that came close to sinking and a quick call to vessel assist got pumps to the boat long before it was critical.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it take a long time for a boat to sink short of a catastrophic failure such as a large drain hose failure below waterline? Even in that case, the bilge pump would have been valiantly trying to keep the boat afloat for a while and I would think that other boaters would have noticed either a boat riding low in the water or one that has a continuos flow of water from its bilge pump?