FloridaSebring, Highlands County
Sebring, FL: 24 ft Formula 242 Off the Bottom in One Morning
On a Formula 242, a surveyor looks first at rotted stringers under the cockpit floor, and this 24 ft Formula 242 cuddy cabin was no exception.
She went down at the ramp, settled by the stern with the bow pointing up, because the stern carried the engine and the soft wood under it. The obstacle was the engine weight. With stringers gone, a lift on the hull alone would have folded her at the cockpit. We pulled the engine first using the skiff and a sling, and then lift bags raised the rest of the boat.
The job ran about five hours. A short tow took her up the ramp to a trailer. She was too weak to restore, so she went to our yard. The engine went to salvage, the hull was cut and sent to recycling, and the ramp was clear before the afternoon traffic. Sunken boat removal in a lake town goes quietly.
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Illustrative example — a representative sunken boat recovery in Highlands County, not a record of a specific customer job. Photos are illustrative too.
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Crews cover Highlands County: Avon Park, Lake Placid, Lorida, and Venus. Most cuddy cabin recoveries around Sebring are scheduled within days, so the water does not get worse. A boat that is tying up a public ramp goes first in line, so the ramp reopens. A tank that is still full, a busy ramp, or a narrow slip shifts the method, and the date stays put.