This could be a nasty one.
Latest models predict landfall somewhere around North Carolina, but you never can tell.
Here's an article on preparing your boat for a storm.
http://www.cruisingworld.com/cw_arti...articleID=1184
This could be a nasty one.
Latest models predict landfall somewhere around North Carolina, but you never can tell.
Here's an article on preparing your boat for a storm.
http://www.cruisingworld.com/cw_arti...articleID=1184
Last edited by commanderpete; 09-15-2003 at 12:57 PM.
has anybody heard a good estimate on the storm surge?
maybe my chessie bretheren have some info...
mine is at Herrington Harbor (herring bay), pretty much the last bay on the western shore before you get to solomons.
the news likes to skintilate us with "20 foot storm surge" but of course by that they mean at landfall in N.C. surely it can't be that bad 100 miles north of the mouth of the ChesBay.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
Check this site. They're talking about a 4-6 feet storm surge in some areas.
http://weather.sunspot.net/MAR/AN/531.html
You wont get much up the Bay there,( unless the storm turns east) The NE wind blows your water down to us at the lower bay. #45 is laced in her slip with 16 docklines .
In fact you may get an extreme low tide and no highs.
the aftermath
well, we ended up with S-SE winds, which blew all the water up into the bay.
the surge at Herrington Harbour North in Deal MD was 8 feet.
This is my dock.
my Ariel is in the center of the photo, directly behind the blue boat that is in the center.
ALL boats are being hauled from 4 docks at HHN.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
here is the port side.
some closeups of interesting things to follow.
Last edited by mrgnstrn; 09-19-2003 at 02:08 PM.
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C&C 35 mkIII
second try: port side
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rubrail and toe rail damage from the blue boat to leeward of me.
note also the chain coming from the deck. that is my anchor, which worked its way loose and hooked under what is left of the dock. i am pretty sure it is permanantly attached to whatever it is hooked on.
i am pretty sure that anchor is one of the reasons my boat isn't on the on the shore on her side.
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S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
the spreader socket broke. Amazing that my mast isn't also in the water.
the spreader is the thing kind of hanging near the bottom of the picture. the stbd spreader made it though.
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S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
the starboard side. note the blue boat to the left, and the large whiteish spot. that's from banging against my boat. i think i left him more damage than he left me.
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S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
two things to note.
one is the great brown spot from the tar of the piling.
two is the winch. note that the base broke off. half is attached to the deck and coaming. the other half only attached to the winch. there is nothing keeping the winch from falling overboard. i am amazed that it didn't get catapulted overboard when the base broke. but i picked it up and just tossed in in the cockpit.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
but, no matter how much work i will have to do to make her look good again, i am not this guy.
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aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
better pictures of the damage when i get hauled and am sitting high and dry.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
It pains me to see your boat punished like that. Guess you are lucky that you didn't get impaled on one of those pilings as the water level went back down. Let us know if thats what happened to the one that sank.
Kent
Looking at your pictures makes me wonder if a lesser vessel would have fared as well. Although I will (probably) never have to weather such a storm, it makes me glad to have the boat I have.
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