Sorry to hear about the damage, although it looks like it could be a lot worse! I'm curious about the throughhull on the beam just below the toerail... what is this for?
-- Shawn Wright shawngwri...@gmail.com S/V Callisto, 1974 C&C 35 https://www.facebook.com/SVCallisto On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:37 AM Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Inspected Touche' yesterday for Hurricane Sally damage. I had to > carefully crawl out to the boat because the finger pier was tilted at a > severe angle. > > I have pics here: > > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rk6i50p4VrCkSDg6MJK7MCduDyZHRnGW?usp=sharing > > No serious structural damage. Some serious dock rash on both sides. > Genoa trashed. It was only 20 years old. :) Three stanchions bent or > damaged. Scratches on bow and on bow casting from contact with the dock > box. The dock box lost. It was destroyed. Touche's anchor, which is > normally on a pulpit mount, was laying in the bottom of the dock box. See > pic "Dock Box 1". > > The most serious damage was loss of my beloved Force 10 small log grill. > However, I suspect it is on the bottom under the stern. A quick swim may > recover it. > > I have filed with my insurance. The claim is progressing. > > The most surprising thing was the damage to the floating pier. The finger > piers were all tilted at severe angles. > > Here's the strange thing. Touche' shares a double slip with a 37 foot > power boat. There was contact between the two boats. Both were tied well > to their finger piers. The power boat was UPWIND of Touche' during most of > the storm. Look at pic IMG_2514 which shows where the power boat's finger > pier was connected to the main pier. I suspect the finger pier may have > separated from the main pier and shifted downwind enough to allow the > contact. It's really hard to tell. Touche's starboard bow line was > broken. It had properly placed chafe protection and the wave action during > the storm was not severe. The marina is well up a bayou. The port bow > line showed no significant signs of chafe. I suspect the starboard bow > line couldn't handle the load of the power boat. The bow line broke > resulting in Touche' being crushed against Touche's finger pier. > > Also, in the Drive folder you will see a nighttime pic of a large power > catamaran, Hayfu II. Note the bow lines attached to the end finger pier. > Now look at IMG_2486. That's the finger pier the catamaran was tied to. > The catamaran is gone. A dock neighbor told me it broke loose. > > My marina has 3 docks, each with nearly identically constructed floating > piers. Only my pier suffered catastrophic damage. Look at IMG_2492 which > shows one of the other docks unscathed. WTF? > > The marina is also the shipyard where I haul out for bottom and torside > paint. The shipyard is giving priority haul outs to their tenants. Which > is good because Touche's slip is structurally compromised and no longer > provides adequate protection. > > Would be interesting if the shipyard/marina does a failure analysis of my > dock's damage. Did the big catamaran stress the dock and cause it to > shift? Did that cause all the finger piers to tilt? All the pilings are > still in place. Strange things happen during extreme weather events. > > For the obsessive, there is a draft Word doc on the Drive which has a bit > more detail. > -- > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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