Jay’s Sandbar Food Boat capsizes and sinks in Florida

A common floating restaurant capsized and sank in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday. Nobody was wounded, but the operator of Jay’s Sandbar Food stuff Boat mentioned the vessel is a “whole loss.”

Fort Lauderdale Fireplace Rescue stated that crews responded to a call of a vessel sinking. 

“On arrival crews identified the legendary Jay’s floating food truck quickly sinking,” FLFR explained in a assertion. “An evaluation of the scene indicated that there ended up no accidents and no speedy dangers to the atmosphere.”

In accordance to the owner, Jeremy Lycke, the boat’s stabilizer pontoon “snapped.” A employee claimed the wake from a passing boat is what brought about it to snap, CBS Miami claimed. At the time the outrigger broke, the boat capsized and sank in less than 5 minutes, according to CBS Miami.

Two folks, a hostess and chef, were on board at the time the boat sank, Lycke explained to CBS Information. 

“I’m devastated of course, but my crew obtained out safely and nobody got damage,” Lycke wrote on Facebook, introducing that the boat sank in “just 4 ft of drinking water.”

Jay’s Sandbar Food items Boat was a well-liked floating restaurant that would supply foods to boaters and jet skiers in Fort Lauderdale. The boat experienced been in procedure for three many years, in accordance to the owner’s Facebook article announcing the sinking.

“We will rebuild, in some way, now very first, we received to remove her shallow grave,” Lycke wrote. He instructed CBS News he endured some $85,000 in damages, but is hoping to rebuild the boat and open up a land-based mostly spot. 

FLFR said Lycke has contacted a non-public salvage enterprise to refloat and eliminate the boat from the Intracoastal Waterway “in the approaching days.”