Obstructions on marina beds.

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If one was motoring steadily past the ends of pontoons, at high water, towards a lock, with a boat draft of 1.6m, in an enclosed marina (maintained depth 2m and lock on freeflow) and one struck a very hard object, which had apparently been thrown up by recent dredging work (marina's suggestion) would you be fairly displeased?
 
On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd be about an incandescent 25.

If the obstruction is that big, is it still there ?
 
You may well think that......

Not too serious, a piece of filler, used to fair the bulb, has been knocked out. Hull deck joint appears to be ok, but I wasn't travelling at much of a lick, thank goodness. BH made the boat lift available to pick us up, on return, to check the damage and before popping us back in. She's going to come out again in a couple of weeks to get the poor poor mended.

BTW, many thanks to Dave and the guys at Bucklers Hard!
 
Have your choice of surveyor look at the hull/keel joint externally, and the internal floors and webs..... And ask the marina to pay him for his hour. You are paying quite a lot for the marina's facilities which includes dredged clear channels.

On a modern production fin-keeler accidental groundings on hard objects can end up very, very expensive. I know of one £30,000 bill for a boat that externally looked OK
 
W had the boat lifted as soon as we got back and a very competent boat builder gave her the once over. There is absolutely no crazing evident at any of the recognized stress points, not even a crack in the hull/keel caulking. Internally, the frame and keel bolts show no sign of disturbance whatsoever. The damage appears limited to fairing filler on the keel bulb. Had we been going any faster the story could have been very different.
 
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