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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 07:25:34 EDT
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:19:58 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/31/2004 10:03:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>> So…what say the list? Stay at the marina or anchor out?
>>
There has been a bunch of analysis of what happened in the Chesapeake
during Isabel and when we went south last fall I asked people what had
happened there during the hurricane. Isabel didn't have a lot of high
winds, but did have considerable storm surge. The worse thing I have
read was at a marina where they required that all the boats be hauled
or leave the marina. And the storm surge came up far enough that ALL
the boats (90 some IIRC) were lifted up off the jackstands and thrown
in a heap up on a hill.
OTOH, the skipper of a boat that we chartered in the VI said that she
had hauled her boat once (with the water tanks and fuel tanks full)
and the boat didn't have any damage but that some boats did fall on
other boats and cause some problem.
Where winds were not too high (like where there was reasonable wind
protection) there seemed to be little wind damage, but water levels
were 5 or more feet above high tide. At our marina the only damage
was someone's jib that wasn't well secured was shredded. At Herring
Harbor, there was a lot more wind damage.
We left the boat in the slip and had no problem but we also had a
house to secure. http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/3e4cb/#TL Some
people took their boats and anchored, and some hauled and all of them
were fine.
The skipper in the VI said that for another time (for Marilyn I think)
she went to Coral Harbour and tied herself in to a lot of mangroves,
and she survived fine, but one of the other boats there started to
drag and had to leave at the height of the storm. I can't remember
the whole story, but it involved someone cutting off their finger when
trying to cut a line.
Our daughter went through Andrew in Miami, but she had only a smaller
power boat on a trailer so probably her experience isn't relevant.
grandma Rosalie
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