Storm Damage

[Ecosse120]

Went to check on my boat yesterday, it is in an open barn and found that it had moved 6 feet forward on it's trailer. We reckon that the wind got in behind and as I had not chocked the wheels it moved forward. Worst was I couldn't pull it back by hand !! Hope everybody else got off as lightly as I did.

 

[Koeketiene]

What damage? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Owning sailing's equivalent of a Norwegian icebreaker has it's benefits /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pontoon took a bashing though /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[geoffatstanpit]

Hip tile left the roof, cleared the boat /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif) and put a dent in the car /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif(

 

[Twister_Ken]

Some slight damage to the toe rail (teak) where a fender line had scored it, I guess with fender movement between self and neighbour. One instrument cover gone missing (how hard does it have to blow to lift a sun cover of an instrument display?).

However, boat on next trot inshore had sunk, and divers were busy getting airbags onto it yesterday.

 

[Mirelle]

(70 year old wooden boat, on swinging mooring)

I had for some reason left a child's crabbing line on deck; it had unwound itself and hurled itself overboard.

Other than that, nowt.

 

[KRG]

I lost a threaded tie from the mainsail cover, the wind managed to undo 2 fig8 stoppers, a reef knot and un-thread it and dump it in the cockpit. The cowling on the back of the wind genny was loose, at first i thought it was the bearings--relief!

The worst damage was to the bow roller, the cheeks have been eased wider apart and the nylon roller is split, the snubbing line I had rigged has chafed through and the damage was done by the mooring chain. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Clive_Rigden]

Enigma's on a pile mooring alongside a similar sized boat. I went down yesterday with some trepidation, as the lower reaches of the Beaulieu are quite exposed to the wind and we're the first piles on the river, and was pleased to see from the shore that everything looked ship-shape. When I rowed out to the mooring, however, I found that the bow line to the pile, which is heavy duty and almost brand new, had chafed right through and parted and bent the roller cheeks apart! She was thankfully well secured to the boat next door and it looks as though they must have been down and rearranged things but I haven't been able to contact them as yet. I spent the afternoon rigging up a jury bow line to the pile with a huge length of disgusting old hawser I keep on board and knew would come in handy one day and rearranged all the lines to the neighbouring boat and added a couple of extras. Other than that, next door's toe rail has sufferd some slight damage and their go faster stripes along the topside has been rubbed away amidships by the fenders, whilst Engima has some very superficial damage to the toe rail and the previously mentioned roller cheeks. All in all, it could have been a whole lot worse and I shall certainly be putting an extra line fore and aft to the piles !

 

[Steve_Jones]

Leisure 27 on a swinging mooring, not a single problem. In fact, she's a little cleaner than you would expect as the b@stard seagulls haven't been able to land!!
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[Fire99]

From a Stinky /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif i kept popping down to the marina throught the week as it was my 1st winter at the marina.

Anyway, no problems apart from one fender which was had been slightly low on air and was the 1st fender to make contact with the finger pontoon in high winds.. The force actually ripped the fender in half and all i had left was the stubby bit attached the rope. Fortunately i had put a 2nd fender next to it to back it up so no damage to the boat..

I'll post a pic when i get a chance.. did make me laugh (with relief)

cheers,

Nick