Marina Collapes

As you can see in the 3rd pictured down, the dock that went down was like the one in the background, with no bracing or cross bracing, the only difference in the two, the one which went down, had slips 20' longer on the right side, than the left and that's the way the roof went down....There wasn't really that much snow...it was sleet...some freezing rain, then a hell of a lot of sleet, topping it off about 2" of snow
 
30 years ago had a winter storage building collapse also crushing our 32 wood Trojan to the engines along with many others.

good luck!
 
work is coming along nicely with the marina cleanup...the boat that went down is supposed to be raised Monday.....my boat, in the slip here, made it thru without any problems
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Wow that is the biggest house boat I have ever seen! The is huge with three stories.
What is the beam on it?
 
16x86 with 3 queens and a king in the master. Two full baths.

This was a spec boat being built by Sharpe and the company folded before being finished....it had been wired, plumbed, paneling up and cabinets and vanities set. No heads, HVAC, flooring, helm, fuel tanks, engines, generator, outdrives, flybridge or anything on top. I bought it at auction, moved it to another houseboat builder, and did all the inside work myself, hardwood flooring, tile in the baths, etc etc, added two water tanks, and installed the heads and helm and gauges , electronics,etc etc..they did the outside...I had a 20kw Westerbeke and twin 4.3 Mercrusiers with Bravo II's installed, and front and rear SidePower thrusters
 
I'm glad to hear your boat made it through unscathed, Danny.
 
I wonder if the boat owners waived marina liability with their slip contracts?
 
According to the dock owner they did. But someone's insurance company is saying since the dock owner didn't sign the lease, only the boat owner there's no lease.
 
They'll be fighting that issue long past this boating season.
 
From experience I can tell you that styrofoam which was used in the 70's for dock floats, and since been outlawed has issues with critters burrowing into the bottom of the cubes to make nests. Muskrats as i recall. So up to half of the flotation ends up slowly disappearing. Also fuel spills dissolve styrofoam. Local marina has slowly replaced styro with poly floats. Not sure how they remove the remaining styro, but the poly tanks have a hole in the bottom, and a SS 4' hose with a valve like on a car tire on top. Open the valve, let the tank fill with water from the hole in the bottom, slide it in place under the dock finger and use a compressor hooked to the top mounted hose and float it into place. Our docks with poly never budged under ice /snow load this winter. The styro docks required shovelers on the roof.
 
That's a great houseboat. My first time ever seeing a third story! Got to be a nice unobstructed view up there!

Glad you didn't suffer any damages.

Paul
 
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