About Ms Bettencourt

Ms Bettencourt is a Swedish built 25-foot trailerable trawler. Her hull was completed in 1971, No. 1117 of about 2500 built. The boat is named for my wife Dia, whose maiden name is Bettencourt.

This little vessel came to me as a gift in 2004. Before then she had been abandoned about 12 years on the Savannah River near Augusta, GA. I have repaired and refitted the boat extensively, and I have cruised her along the East coast of the US, from Cape Lookout, NC, to the Florida Keys. I dream of taking her to Havana some day.

This blog started in 2011 to chronicle the building of a hard top for the boat to replace leaky canvas. Since then the blog has become an Albin-25 boatkeeping and cruising journal.


Saturday, May 17, 2014

Marooned (probably forever)

Army Corps of Engineers divers were at the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam this week. They spent most of a day underwater around the lock wall on the Savannah River side of the lock.

U.S. Army Corps of  Engineers photo








There has been no official word on findings, but a person I know who is close to the action said the engineers she talked with sounded "really worried."

The lock was closed indefinitely Thursday. There are currently no plans to repair and re-open the lock. Augusta's river access to the sea is closed.






I went to the Augusta Ports Authority meeting Thursday and no one seemed to be particularly concerned.

Sighhhh....

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