Apparently a rather large boat caught fire and sank at Vol Landing this morning. No one was harmed, all escaped prior to the sinking. Is this going to be looked back upon as an ill omen portending Tennessee's Odyssey through Hell continuing, or is this going to be viewed as a clean break from 11 years of mediocre to terrible football? Or is it just some drunkenly prepared hash browns catching a galley on fire?
Blind-assed guess is that they were without shore power, so sitting docked and at idle so as to run AC and iPhone chargers and fumes built up / combusted. But it could be 1,000 things, including burnt hash browns. They’re recovering that boat to simply get it out of the water, for environmental concerns and not to salvage it, because it’s done. If the fire didn’t destroy the hull and engine, the submersion flooding almost certainly will. Done-done, IMO.
$400k+ new $200k+ used, 10 years old $60-75k used, 20 years old Approximations, of course. Ballparks.
Would need to know the age and make, but yeah, 100k easy. Once saw an 85fter catch fire around here about 10 years ago. Way less damage than this boat, and it was totaled.
On the bright side, I can think of no better port to be a marooned castaway than Vol Landing on Game Day. They're going to have 200k+ friends to take care of them and improve their moods.
You’ll see many wakeboard boats on the lakes usually being driven by 20-30 year olds, and wonder how a young person can afford a boat that is routinely $85k+. I went to a boat show a few years ago and asked a dealer about this, and he told me that’s why many include a cubby toilet in them (you also have to have a sleeping and cooking space, but you can say you sleep on the seats and literally add a propane grill to satisfy the other requirements of “sleeping and cooking space”, as it allows people to somehow claim it as a house / livable space and they can finance it as a mortgage, on a 20-30 year loan. No idea if he was full of shit, but also can’t imagine why he’s lie, either.
