Runaway Houseboat On Kentucky River

[Serious News]

Emergency management officials are trying to figure out how to catch a runaway house boat on the Kentucky River Saturday night. They say the boat and its dock broke loose in high waters in Madison County sometime Friday.

Emergency management officials say the boat and its dock broke loose from a location in Boonesboro, then traveled 110 miles downstream down the Kentucky River before it began to be spotted by people in Frankfort.

"There was a boat and a dock on the way. Said about 70 feet of dock and about a 40 foot house boat attached to that," said Emergency Management Director Tom Russell.

Russell says they're bracing for potential hazards.

"Not knowing how tall the boat was, I was checking bridge clearances, because we have two relatively low bridges here in Franklin County," he said.

The boat cleared those bridges and floated away from Franklin County without problems. Officials say high fast moving water with debris are likely the reason the boat dock broke loose.

"I'm sure mother nature had everything to do with that," said Russell.

The boat is currently heading towards the Ohio River. Officials say the boat's owner is in Florida right now. The coast guard plans to work with him to get a salvage crew that will try to stop the boat on the Ohio River sometime Sunday.

http://www.lex18.com/story/28290720/...kentucky-river

[Bobcat]

"The Bridges of Madison County II"

"Houseboat from Hell"

Starring Gary Busey as an drugged out photographer who sleeps with ugly women....Natalie Wood has a Cameo.

[rschap1]

Doh...

[phragle]

What am I missing here?? Its a friigin houseboat with a dock attached. "Trying to figure out how to stop it?" Its drifting people...lasso the damn thing next time it passes under a bridge hooking a rope on a houseboat..absolute rocket science.

[Ratickle]

Obviously no Towboat US guys in the area.....


Or is it not a salvage claim if it's still tied to the dock?????

[Underdog88]

Must not be worth much or someone would be on it. Or as you say Rat, the dock???

[Ratickle]

If you lived downstream you could have a nice boat and a new dock to tie it to.

[Serious News]

Unmoored houseboat travels 165 miles on Kentucky River; salvage company to retrieve it
By Beth Musgrave Lexington Herald-Leader

The owner of a runaway houseboat that traveled more than 165 miles from its moorings in Boonesboro to the mouth of the Ohio River has hired a salvage company to retrieve the boat, emergency management officials said Sunday.

http://www.the-messenger.com/news/lo...019f4d4e8.html

[phragle]

DAMN!! doesn't they guy have any friends?? hired a salvage compnay?? you realize he could buy a new houseboat to be the mothership of the new outerlimits he could buy with what the salvage company is going to charge him...

[Ratickle]

Yep, I think his houseboat may no longer be his depending on his insurance. It also hit a couple bridges on the way. May be some additional expenses from that.....