Brings up a good point about yacht ownership Mike, they are a great reserve in the event of a calamity, especially if they have lots of power aboard and solar and wind. Survivalists dream machine! Glad to hear you are ok.
Cheers,
Pete Rasmussen.
From: Matthew Geier <matthew@acfr.usyd.edu.au>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 4 November 2012 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Storm
On 04/11/12 00:23, Mike wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Richard! I had just gotten back from a 200 mile fall cruise the
> day before things began to get interesting. My boat survived with very
> minor damage and was still floating on her mooring but, it was a
> thousand feet away from where I left her on Sunday night. But, with a
> beamy boat and 90 MPH gusts plus storm surge added to the mix it was
> no surprise. About five or six boats around mine did the same. Here is
> a chronicle of the events:
>
The MTA has a couple of 1000 photos on Flickr now of damage to the
transit system. Some of that damage is boats sitting on the tracks.
Many of the boats don't look significantly damaged other than they are
sitting in the middle of a railway line. Looks like many survived the
actual storm but the storm surge broke their mooring lines and they just
floated inland on the tide. One photo showed a cruiser sitting in the
middle of a car park still tried up to it's jetty. The pontoon had
broken free and floated in still attached to the boat.
(Although I'm sure their are many more cases of boats that broke free of
their moorings and got smashed into something or something smashed into
them)
>
>
>
> Thanks Richard! I had just gotten back from a 200 mile fall cruise the
> day before things began to get interesting. My boat survived with very
> minor damage and was still floating on her mooring but, it was a
> thousand feet away from where I left her on Sunday night. But, with a
> beamy boat and 90 MPH gusts plus storm surge added to the mix it was
> no surprise. About five or six boats around mine did the same. Here is
> a chronicle of the events:
>
The MTA has a couple of 1000 photos on Flickr now of damage to the
transit system. Some of that damage is boats sitting on the tracks.
Many of the boats don't look significantly damaged other than they are
sitting in the middle of a railway line. Looks like many survived the
actual storm but the storm surge broke their mooring lines and they just
floated inland on the tide. One photo showed a cruiser sitting in the
middle of a car park still tried up to it's jetty. The pontoon had
broken free and floated in still attached to the boat.
(Although I'm sure their are many more cases of boats that broke free of
their moorings and got smashed into something or something smashed into
them)
>
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