Probably won't be boating for a while....

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David M

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I went to check on Saint Max on Saturday. It was a beautiful day and I hadn't run since before the hurricane. I have to cross over the James River to get to my marina. From several stories up, I could see a TON of debris that had ben washed into the river from Irene and the rains we experienced from Lee. It was no PNW log jam, but there was enough visible to cause me to rethink my plans. At the marina, the waters were level with the height of the stationary dock that parallels the trailer ramp at LOW tide. Normally, the levels are a foot or so below that dock at HIGH tide. I got to the marina and it was dead. One brave soul was heading out. The rest of the boats were still tied in place with their storm lines in anticipation of the "next" one. One of the marina's owners said he had never seen anything like this in his 30 years in the business.

A co-worker took his bass boat out to practice for an upcoming cat fish tourney. He described a worse situation than I had seen as he was at water level. He told me he never took the boat to plane. He told me the stuff you could see was painful enough to look at. It was the stuff a few inches below the surface that was treacherous and numbered 3-5 times more that what he could see.

Hopefully not, but I may be winterizing a bit early this year. Maria is out there and Nate is enroute.

DAMMIT! Fall is my favorite boating time. Oh Well!
 
I'd bet some of that Sub-surface stuff will be around for years.
The Canadians used to give us little Flags on a Spike to drive into anything we could reach to mark that stuff.

Maybe some body will go into business with his Shrimp Trawl and a Barge, picking that stuff up.
 
Dang Dave, It'll be hard cleaning up while more storms are coming in. We have the army corp of engineers with boats that pick up debris in the bay. Sounds to me you'll need a barge/dredge to pick up and hold all the debris/flotsam from the storms.

Did you get a chance to check out your boat for any damage...internal and external?
 
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Originally posted by jtybt15

Dang Dave, It'll be hard cleaning up while more storms are coming in. We have the army corp of engineers with boats that pick up debris in the bay. Sounds to me you'll need a barge/dredge to pick up and hold all the debris/flotsam from the storms.

Did you get a chance to check out your boat for any damage...internal and external?

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No visible damage. Canvas is still in good shape; no damage. A bit of mold in a headliner/bulkhead seam but nothing to worry about. There is no moisture anywhere inside the boat so I am thinking it's from no power to run the AC for 5-6 days and humid weather.

I am fortunate in that the storm came in from the north/northeast and I had 5 boats to my north the smallest of which is 40 foot and a 44 Viking aft cabin to my east in the next slip.

I do need to check the battery charger as the house bank was down to 12 volts. I'm not sure if I lost it in a power surge. I had some water in the bilge but I expected that. Maybe the pump is what took the batteries down.

I have lots of dirt and debris on the deck. I am going to bring the pressure washer down next weekend. Temps are supposed to be in the low to mid 70's.

She started right up and I stressed the gennie. I let her run for about 30 minutes. All is well except I need to find out and fix what is causing the gennie to search for the proper RPM. It works fine as is, but does need to be fixed. It's just that the 100* heat wave preceding the hurricane was not my idea of a great day in the bilge.

I have 22 lines on her so if anything broke loose, I would have the marina in tow.

With the economy and boat sales what they are maybe I should have tied her up with dental floss!
 
Dave we just got back from a ride up state NY to Waverly. The remnants of Lee took out Athens, Sayre, Johnson City, Bighamton etc.. Route 17 (almost an I95 equivelent) was under water in several places. Then there was route 28 out to the reservoirs losing lanes here and there to the Esopus. Man. Devastation everywhere. People sitting on their porches with their lives out on the street waiting for trash pickup.
People up here in NY have been told flat out the season is over.

Count your blessings. You're still floating (with limited options) and in one piece!
 
Dave,
Why not just hang on the boat at your dock for a few weekends and see what shakes out. Me, I would prefer to do that than close her up, not ideal use, but better than seeing her on land.
 
I took a run out into Northport and Huntington bays here in Long Island. Not much sign of anything at all in the water. We got lucky....
 
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Originally posted by Gregory S

Dave, you can come down and hang out with me.

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I may take you up on that....Are you still on the hard?

I am sure you are as busy as hell with ships movements, your moving from W(goddamn)VA to the real VA!!!

I'll call you!
 
22 lines on a 33 Footer... Inquiring minds would love to see some pics... My cleats can take about 2 sets of average lines per cleat how are you hanging them?
 
yup, still oh the hard, but they are getting to it this week.
 
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Originally posted by Gregory S

yup, still oh the hard, but they are getting to it this week.

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Just in time for the two nasties off the southeast coast!?!?!?!?
 
"I may take you up on that....Are you still on the hard?"

"yup, still oh the hard"

You guys need to get a room :)
 
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Originally posted by walterv

"I may take you up on that....Are you still on the hard?"

"yup, still oh the hard"

You guys need to get a room :)

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ROFLMAO!!!!

Greg's a doctor. Why did this vision just go through my head?

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I gotta get help.
 
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