FloridaKendall West, Miami-Dade County
Raising a 27 ft Chris-Craft Commander 27 in Kendall West, FL
Every buyer who stepped aboard the 27 ft Chris-Craft Commander 27 smelled the same thing and walked away, because the cabin cruiser had a fuel smell that ended every sale attempt. The owner left her on a mooring to wait for a better offer. A failed hose fitting did the rest, and she went down by the stern with the bow still up.
The obstacle was the fuel. Before anything moved, the crew laid containment boom around the hull and drew the tanks down through a sealed line, so nothing sheened the water as she came up. Only then did we strap her and fill the lift bags, raising her in stages while the bilge drained into a holding tank.
A short tow brought her to a ramp, with Coral Terrace the nearest town on the road route. The fuel system was beyond saving and the hull was soft, so there was no salvage value left to chase. She went to our yard for sunken boat removal, dismantling, and recycling in about six hours.
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Illustrative example — a representative sunken boat recovery in Miami-Dade County, not a record of a specific customer job. Photos are illustrative too.
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Crews cover Miami-Dade County: Brownsville, Coral Terrace, Country Club, Country Walk. Same-week recovery is our normal pace for sunken boats in this area, because fuel and oil only spread the longer a hull sits. One call with a few photos gets the job scheduled, and the crew arrives with everything needed for the lift. Smaller towns without a nearby ramp are covered the same way.