Boat on the River Urr

The River Urr in Kippford, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

A few days in Scotland with my camera gave me the chance to visit a number of new venues. And take lots of photographs of the same stuff that I shoot every weekend at home. Boats, water, mountains, piers, beaches, the sky, boats, clouds, and boats.
This particular boat was part of the scene in Kippford (or Scaur) near Dalbeattie when I arrived there on Monday morning. I wasn't sure if she was an Osborne or had been built locally, but as I set up the tripod and clamped the camera to it, a boiler suited bloke came past, and with a surprisingly strong Essex accent said ' You'll have to hurry up and take that before it sinks'.
Always completely incapable of the quick retort, I mumbled something about waiting until low tide and trying again but then noticed the way her waterline disappeared halfway down her length and knew that he was right. She was sinking before my eyes.
Why are so many boats so completely neglected? Why do people buy them and then leave them to their fate? Who can afford to invest thousands of pounds in something and then let it go to wrack and ruin? Is it any of my business?
Probably not, but for what its worth, I was able to take this photo before the boat sank, using a Fuji S2 Pro and a Tokina 12-24 lens with a circular polariser. The camera was set to continuous shooting with a three frame bracket and the image was processed with Photomatix, output as an 8 bit file and then finished off in Photoshop.