Thing Price – Beachcombing find ;-) STW Experts Assemble

Sealite Ordinate Marker, possibly South.

Anyone know how much these are? Pricing seems secret on the net.

P1340013 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Satinless steel bolts were useful 🙂

Its the top part of a south cardinal buoy, indicating clear water to the south / danger to the north. Quite an important piece of navigation for ships.

Trinity house would be quite keen to know it’s missing!

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No markings of ownership on it or contact numbers. Only the manufactures website.

Could be from anywhere…other than the sea obviously.

Any idea what a thing like this would cost ?

Is that Severn Beach?

No idea on value, sorry!

There was a fairly large ship out in Start Bay last October, lit up like a Christmas tree; Marine Traffic on my phone showed she was a buoy laying ship involved with the replacement and repair of marker buoys around the coast, her track showed her heading off for banks around Jersey afterwards.
It’s things like the OP’s photo that she would be called in to fix.
Can’t remember her name, now.

She was about a mile out when I took the photo, at the limit of my camera’s zoom.

Its value will be in the scrapvalue I would presume. Can’t imagine there is a market for secondhand / used buoys. {Insert jimmy Seville / yewtree joke here}

Yep!

Jewel of the Severn.

No interest in selling it. More than happy to pass it back to the real owners.

Just curious on the cost of things. Probably a couple of hundred quid I’d expect.

I found a bouy once at Severn Beach and the owners painted there contact details on it. Emailed them and they came and collected it with a trailer …. more than happy they were 🙂

Somewhere downstream they were…cant remember the outfits name now.

If the owners cant be found!!

I’m thinking a bird table or nautical seat of some kind.

Looks like a bit off a navigation bouy, to me.
Was it Svitzer marine, Redhunter?
They do all the tugs and the like for the Bristol Port Co.

http://www.sealite.com/

I think legally you are now a salvor and have recovered wreck. You’re entitled to a salvage award up to the value of the wreck. You need to fill in a form and send to the receiver of wrecks. Probably worth no more than the scrap value!
Details here