Hurricane Irma

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horrific for those living through this. My thoughts and prayers are with them. Not even sure appropriate to post pictures up, but this is on the BBC website and as a boat forum... it boat related.

The more you look at this pile of boats the more you realise that the clean-up will be a nightmare and take time, but of course these will hopefully be dealt with long after homes have been rebuilt... although I doubt it, the argument I suppose is tourism brings money in. If you owned any of these I guess you hope it would be the sunk ones, far more straight forward to deal with.

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I was reading on one island, they moved all the boats to a "hurricane hole" for protection.

The storm ripped though it a wrecked the lot!! In other places lots were being brought ashore. Can't imagine few chocks would stop them going over.

185 mph sustained is beyond imagination and it always seems to hit places ill prepared in terms of robust buildings, infrastructure etc... thoughts and best wishes to all those involved.
 
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Rgrwynne said:
I think the majority of boats in the photo are Charter boats. The hurricane went straight through the Moorings base...
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Yes, that's their 'hurricane hole' in Tortola, those boats are still afloat (sort of) look on t'interweb and there are photos of what the bay should look like - all the yachts moored-up side by side, in two or three long lines, now just washed into a heap in the corner.
 
FARSCO said:
The storm ripped though it a wrecked the lot!! In other places lots were being brought ashore. Can't imagine few chocks would stop them going over.
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At the old Crabbs marina in Antigua the had a large open field at the back. My Dad's solution was to get a JCB to dig some trenches deep enough to take a keel and rudder, lay some old truck tyres on top and lower the yachts into the hole sitting on the tyres. Then you just strop them down with ground anchors.

Not pretty but they didn't lose one boat in almost 20 years.
 
Clever!

Pictures I saw was just normal chocking no doubt with some sort of tie down.

I get the impression the first islands hit only had a few days notice!
 
Its a terrible mess.

Imagine how the Hamble would look after a 185mph wind. I was in the marina at Hamble Point through both 1987 and 1991 storms and it didn't look good.
 
simonfraser said:
how long would it take to dig holes in a field and strap that lot down ....

Here is a 'before' photo to accompany the 'after' photo posted by Firefly.
https://www.passagemaker.com/lifestyle/irma-tortola
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Crickey, that is a massive fleet of cat's. So nearly all charter boats I guess. No wonder then ended up in a heap!
But with these cats they really don't need a hole, just lifted onto land and strapped down
 
Firefly625 said:
Crickey, that is a massive fleet of cat's. So nearly all charter boats I guess. No wonder then ended up in a heap!
But with these cats they really don't need a hole, just lifted onto land and strapped down
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But look at them all! You'd never get that many ashore and strapped down in the time you have warning.
 
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