Sunk boat North of Prescott

I was fishing today and say a sunk boat half way between St Croix Bluffs and Prescott on the MN Side. It is a 23-24′ boat next to what I believe is the owners dock. It has some chains on it, like they tried to winch it out. Anybody know what happened to it???

OUCH, any pics.
Jack..

Nope. no camera along. I feel bad for the owner. I wonder how it happened.

Drain plug

Hmm, Is this boat by a row of cabins with a sandy beach? If it is, I proably know the boat owner, I’ll check it out today to get the skinny on it.

Jami

I just hate it when a St. Croix beachfront property owner’s yacht sinks next to his jet ski’s, fishing boat and BMW. I hope they don’t spend too much time staying inside their
$3 million home being depressed.
Those poor people……..

Maybe they’re just trying to establish a new crib in the area near their dock to improve the fishing??? I wonder if you’d get a tax write-off for a ‘conservation project’?

We boated by it tuesday evening and the Sheriff boat was there making phone calls and tagging the boat. I wonder how long the Sheriff will let it sit until they issue a fine?? I’m sure it will be fun getting that one out.

I looked for the boat on Thursday, was it gone by then. Or am I just blind?

Jami

They probably put a temporary patch on and put a high capacity pump in there to get the water out and keep it floatable until they could pull it. That is how I would have attacked that problem. You can rent a good pump fairly reasonably.

I’m pretty sure I know which boat it was. There is one missing on the Mn side that was tied up to a small grey floating dock. If it is this particular boat, they had troubles a couple of years ago also. The boat/dock came loose and the boat rubbed on the rocks on shore.

Hopefully for them it is an easy fix. I know I would be in dire straights if I looked out and saw my boat on the bottom of the river.

Jami