Hurricane Sandy

I'm anticipating an insurance claim - only question is the magnitude of the claim. Yikes!
 
Not a scratch. I am very fortunate. This is my first year in my new marina. The old one is wiped away.
 
Great.
My marina was destroyed , tons of boats either MIA , sunk or damaged. Main building ( huge, commercial unit burnt down)

My boat , same as yours, not a scratch from what I here
 
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Originally posted by walterv

Great.
My marina was destroyed , tons of boats either MIA , sunk or damaged. Main building ( huge, commercial unit burnt down)

My boat , same as yours, not a scratch from what I here

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Glad to hear about your boat. So sorry for all the losses from everyone else though
 
I hope all is well for your boat and your family. I hope too that it's still a non event for you near Albany especially since I haven't heard from my son at school in Pottersville. I'm not sure how he's going to make out any way since he was raised in S. Fl. Cold and we don't get along.
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Originally posted by PBardunias

Hope everyone is ok despite the outages - prayers are with your families and your vessels. Not sure of situation in Kingston, hope my big boat is ok but otherwise its a non event for us north of Albany. Be safe everyone!!!

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God shined on me and Dave - Dave (Audrey II) your boat is unscathed. The boat that threw its anchor out is trashed - props bent and the bow all smashed up. Out o the 20% or so that were unharmed Dave and I did the best with Dave coming out at 100%.. I have slight damage (scratches) possibly from the boat that hit the plastic shrink wrap - could not get close enough to see. Time to go buy a lottery ticket. . .
 
Bill you were certainly lucky. Since there was no rainfall, I am thinking the current in the creek was low. Good roll of the dice!
 
You're right. There was hardly any current, even today. Irene's and the following week's remnant storm
last year was far more destructive and fortunately earlier in the year -- more boats on the docks. A bit counter intuitive but depending on the situation, in the water is sometimes better. Also counter intuitive is leaving your garboard plug out with fully charged batteries powering your bilge pumps. Last night at 2am, I noticed boats staying on their stands that were filling with water, but keeping the level low. Those with plugs in, floated. Yet another with plug out, no pumps running, floated off stands then downstream before getting beached.

As for me, I tied off at eight points on the docks. I was among two mega yachts and four Coast Guard vessels. All of us were at equal risk but the crews of the yachts had the upper hand in that they could untie if the dock's themselves floated. There was no way I was leaving the docks single handed in the middle of the night during a near hurricane!
 
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