Laura's Babies
03-30-2007, 10:29 AM
We were in the shipyard last trip out and I found this to be a most interesting sight and story. The company wants a bigger boat so it picks the P.I.Heart and has it cut in two and guts out the inside. They are going to add 30 feet in the length (inbetween the two sections), PLUS another deck . Adding another deck means they also have to cut off the wheelhouse and attach it back to the new deck. They are also going to add 1000hp per engine. When I asked why they just didn't buy a bigger boat rather than go through all that, the answer was that it is tons cheaper to do it this way. A new boat would cost millions of $$$$ and this is only costing hundreds of thousands..
I just don't know if I would like the idea of being on a boat that had been cut in two and welded back together.. I am sure they know what they are doing but the whole concept sounds scarey to me. It was really odd to see it cut and gutted, really creepy but interesting.
Here are a few pictures I took of it when we were tied up by it.
Front and back
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Grammy707/HPIM2976.jpg
The back
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Grammy707/HPIM2975.jpg
They said it is on like railroad tracks that they can pull the sections back and forth as they need to, to work on it. When we were there the first time, they hadn't started on it. When we got back in 10 to 12 days, they had cut it and pulled it apart.
I just don't know if I would like the idea of being on a boat that had been cut in two and welded back together.. I am sure they know what they are doing but the whole concept sounds scarey to me. It was really odd to see it cut and gutted, really creepy but interesting.
Here are a few pictures I took of it when we were tied up by it.
Front and back
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Grammy707/HPIM2976.jpg
The back
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Grammy707/HPIM2975.jpg
They said it is on like railroad tracks that they can pull the sections back and forth as they need to, to work on it. When we were there the first time, they hadn't started on it. When we got back in 10 to 12 days, they had cut it and pulled it apart.