Thar…they blow!
The city is channeling its inner scallywag — auctioning off life boats in such “poor condition” they come with a use-at-your-own risk warning.
The faded 15-man life boats were likely used on the Staten Island Ferry but are now so beat-up, they could pass for a relic from the Titanic.
“The City of New York makes no guarantee as to the functionality of the life rafts,” the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services posted on the auction site.
“The indication above of life rafts ‘working’ refers to the time of [a Coast Guard] inspection only,” the Website notes.
Eleven of the rafts were selling for just $10.50, the highest bid, on Tuesday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Cal-June Inc., the firm that made the rafts, said they are best used close to land.
“They are not used on cruise ships and the like. They are used on smaller vessels, closer to shore,” she said. She had no idea how long ago the orange contraptions were made.
The pick-up location for the rafts are 1 Bay Street in Manhattan, where Staten Island Ferry takes off, and buyers must pick them up with their own car.
The rafts are sold “AS IS” and “WHERE IS,” the site notes.
The auction is open until Jan. 27 on a Public Surplus page, which sells everything from school busses to diamond earrings, the news blog Gothamist points out.
The rafts passed a Coast Guard inspection in 2013.
A city spokeswoman didn’t return calls by press time.