FloridaLealman, Pinellas County
Raising a 22 ft Sun Tracker Party Barge 22 in Lealman, FL
The deck boards on the 22 ft Sun Tracker Party Barge 22 pontoon were spongy and the rail was bent, and the tubes had a pinhole leak nobody had traced. She sat at a lake dock through a wet summer, slowly filling, and settled with the deck awash and the bow slightly up.
The obstacle was getting hold of her. The water was too deep to stand in, but too shallow for a loaded skiff to float. The crew staged gear on the dock, sent two divers down to set straps, and carried the lift bags out by hand. Once inflated, the bags raised the tubes together, and a drain line emptied the deck cavity.
We pushed her to the ramp with the skiff on a short tow and loaded her on a flatbed, with Largo the first town on the road route. Tube damage and rotted decking left no salvage worth rebuilding. She went to our yard for dismantling and recycling. About four hours on site for the sunken boat removal.
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Illustrative example — a representative sunken boat recovery in Pinellas County, not a record of a specific customer job. Photos are illustrative too.
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Crews cover Pinellas County: St Petersburg, Tarpon Springs, Pinellas Park, Largo, Palm Harbor, Clearwater. Time matters with a sunken hull, as fuel and oil keep spreading, which is why we normally arrive here inside one week. The job gets scheduled off one call and a few photos, and the crew comes with everything required to raise the boat. Places too small to have a nearby ramp are on our route too, with the same service.