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>I write software and have no experience doing what I'm suggesting.

This should be attached to a lot of posts here.

> The canal is only so deep and so wide. Build a caisson across the canal that is maybe 3m higher than the banks, and pump water into it.

I'm guessing that would take more than weeks to actually do.

just attach a couple chains to my truck and the boat, I'll pull it out for you

I was saying (jokingly) that we should send some good ol boys over there with their towing tackle. Hell there are probably dozens of them serving in the general vicinity already.

It’s the desert though. There are no anchor points to attach anything to (and for something this heavy, you’d need so many to split the force that you’d run out of blocks).