It's never a dull day in my world

[Frankie]

Mirror shot:

KIAWAH ISLAND — The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to oversee the removal of a fishing vessel grounded on the island.
The 77-foot Nanami broke free of its anchor chain Thursday evening and ran aground on the island Friday.
Charleston Marine Services has been contracted to remove the vessel and any potential pollutants onboard. The company has removed about 250 of 900 gallons of fuel onboard, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. It said a containment boom has been placed around the vessel to prevent damage to the environment. No effects on wildlife has been reported.
The contractor will try to remove the Nanami when all preparations have been made.

[Frankie]

Hey gang, I woke up on Friday and went out to do my rounds on Kiawah Island. One of my jobs is in a beautiful beach front home being remodeled by Massar Construction and a dear friend of mine. What a beautiful job Tom has done on this home!
Anyhow I got there about 7:00am and all seems normal. I located the key and took the elevator up to the 3 floor. As I step out onto a beautifully finished Brazilian Cherry floor I restored, something seemed not right. I turned to the kitchen and there in the large mirror on the wall I can see the beach, and the very large trolling boat that somehow washed ashore in the night! It was high tide and it was rocking back and forth in a very rough manner. I could see the crew running back and forth pulling ropes and down right panicking in there dilemma. There was nothing I could do but watch and call Tom to tell him the news.
I took some great pictures. What are the chances of this happening right in front of my job?




Nothing a Ford can't pull

[Frankie]

The pictures provided are at high tide. He is over 500 feet onto the actual beach. I really enjoyed taking pictures of the coast guard helicopter!

[Stacef]

Wow that's insane Frankie!!! You are right, never a dull day on your job!!

[Frankie]

Few more close ups of the boat.


And our flag on another house

View of the beach

[sambrinar]

Ooops, Great picts, beautiful house. Good to have some excitement as long as it involves someone else and the coast guard. LOL

[BigAl07]

Amazing pics bro! Love the HELI pics you lucky dawg

[Frankie]

It seems the story behind this boat is getting more and more interesting. I will go out on Monday and try and get some updated pictures and or capture the re launch attempt. Here is the latest article on it.

KIAWAH ISLAND — A 77-foot scallop trawler that's been stuck in the sand for a week is likely to stay there at least several more days, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday.
Residents seem assured the odd intruder on the eastern edge of their island paradise presents no immediate threat, and have in fact become fascinated by it, Kiawah Island Enforcement Officer Rusty Lameo said.
"It's not an environmental hazard," Lameo said, noting the containment efforts of the Coast Guard, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and Charleston Marine Services. "Of course, anything that appears on the beach becomes a curiosity. People want to go out and see it and stand by it and get their picture taken."
About eight years ago, a 52-foot ocean cruiser hung up on the sand bars and remained there for about two weeks, Lameo said.
The trawler Nanami is beached on the eastern edge of the island, well behind the security gate. Nearby houses are several hundred yards from the water.
Like a beached whale, this vessel can't be moved out to sea until the tide comes in enough to lift it. That won't happen until at least Tuesday, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Eric King said.
Meanwhile, workers siphoned off fuel and built a containment barrier around the boat. The Coast Guard will bill the owners for the cost of getting the vessel back in the water, King said.


The trawler washed up on the beach Nov. 14 after its anchor chain broke the night before. The boat had already been in trouble several times as it limped down the East Coast.
The captain and a crewman started out sometime last month from New Jersey. They were heading down to Rockville to be retrofitted for fishing, according to the Coast Guard.
The captain is Greg Cooper, 52, of Cape May. He's staying in the Charleston area while the boat is put back to sea, according to the Coast Guard.
The crewman was Nora Kim, 47, of Pennsauken. He went back to New Jersey to join his daughter, Mary Kim, who owns the trawler.
They had not gone far before the Coast Guard ordered them to pull into Lewes, Del., to clean up the boat before proceeding, according to a story in the Cape Gazette, the local newspaper. They stayed about a week and left Nov. 1. Mayor Jim Ford told the Gazette the crew left without paying the docking fees and also destroyed a piling on their way out. City officials could not be reached Friday afternoon.
When Cooper and Kim pulled out of Lewes, they took with them a homeless refugee from New Orleans who had been featured in the Gazette a few days earlier, witnesses told the news-paper there.
Three days later, the trawler broke down off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The Coast Guard Cutters Vigorous and Block Island spent the better part of two days towing it to Southport, N.C., Lt. Scott McCrew with Coast Guard Sector North Carolina said.
The trawler's next notable stop was Georgetown, where they dropped off the homeless woman, Coast Guard Lt. Jg. Jim Litzinger said.
Charleston Marine Services plans to dig a trench around the boat Monday to get it ready to float, according to Terry Yarborough, DHEC's emergency response coordinator. "I've dealt with quite a few sinking vessels in my day, but this is the most bizarre," he said.