I don't know what sites you visited. As far as BoatUS Insurance, and hurricane Ivan damage, I am unfortunately intimately familiar. BoatUS totalled any vessel which was submerged. They then owned the salvage. The insured was given the opportunity to purchase his old vessel for a few pennies on the dollar. For less than a total loss, they tendered a cost to repair check to the insured based on an estimate done by their marine surveyor. I found this estimate to be very fair, and it was based on local yard hourly rates. Obviously, if you are capable of doing the repair yourself, there should be some good buys out there. Harvey Harkness S/V Sayonara Perdido Key, FL -----Original Message----- From: trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com [mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of cooke_w@bellsouth.net Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:06 AM To: TrawlerWorld Subject: T&T: Salvage Boats I have a question for anyone. May be Bob Austin in particularly since I know he's close to the scene. I've, mostly out of curiosity, looked at a couple of the sites that have listed many of the "salvaged" boats from the recent FL hurricanes. Quite a few seem, according to the descriptions, to have suffered something less than major damage. Many are described as "not submerged" and "cosmetic damage, structurally good". Seemingly many are repairable, so why are they "totaled"? (If that's the correct word. Its the one we often use when describing an auto loss.) Do they all belong to an insurance company? Is it because of the same situation that we face in auto repair? It doesn't take much collision damage for the cost to repair a car to be more than the car is worth. Or do some folks just take the "opportunity" of this kind of damage to get out of boating. Make the best settlement they can with the insurance company and "hang it up". Are some of the boats shown still "owned" by individuals whom have received a settlement amount from their insurer for repairs and the boats are now being offered just as a, "Let's see what we can get as is, where is before we decide to whether to repair it?" Or are the people that write the descriptions the same ones that write the copy for houses in the want ads? oppor Just wondering!! Bill _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering To Unsubscribe send email to trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com Include the word Unsubscribe (and nothing else) in the subject or body of the message.