Tie down your boats, folks!
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Koeketiene
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Dancrane thanks but I want to post a video from my photos. There is no url.
I can post still images but not video.
I can post still images but not video.
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anoccasionalyachtsman
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Upload it to YouTube, and then paste the link to that in the box that pops up when you press the 'film' button in the reply box on here.
Greenheart
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I started a Youtube account largely to show my adventures to this forum. Pity I've barely been sailing since. ?
Still glad to have the account though. Doesn't commit you to anything and it wasn't difficult to get started.
Still glad to have the account though. Doesn't commit you to anything and it wasn't difficult to get started.
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Since I can’t post video here are some stills from the cctv in Falmouth. The yacht sank in less than a minute 
Greenheart
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I saw a Hunter Medina (for sale) which always had its lifting keel locked down, even though it was in a sheltered mud berth.
It stuck me that that probably wasn't ideal for the keel-hangings, but better than risking a knockdown/foundering.
It stuck me that that probably wasn't ideal for the keel-hangings, but better than risking a knockdown/foundering.
mjcoon
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Similarly I have a free Google Drive account which I can use to share files generally and have probably posted to here (e.g. an inland foiling windsurfer recently?)...
Greenheart
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That sounds clever...does it present a screen within the post, like media links do by the method I described?
I tend to think readers are happier to start a video that is visible as a video, than click a link to a separate site.
I tend to think readers are happier to start a video that is visible as a video, than click a link to a separate site.
mjcoon
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I guess you are referring to my Google Drive suggestion: and, yes, there is no "wrapping" of an independent site. I note that your description of the YouTube interface indicates that there is a list of sites that the forum approves of for those links, which may well give users some reassurance...
UK-WOOZY
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DJE
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DJE
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There has been an old caravan at Wicormarine for years. It was standing on the seawall last week - it's now a pile of match wood.
Tradewinds
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These 'box cradles' seem the norm in the Netherlands. No adjustment at all for the cradle pads. I 'm guessing they're easier to store/stack compactly in the summer freeing off the marina car parks which are often used for the winter lay-up. I've used one once - wouldn't again from choice.
Greenheart
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Perhaps ground-anchors could be permanently installed wherever boats stand ashore (just showing thick steel shackles which fold down unobtrusively when not in use).
Then high-vis webbing 'lashings' could be set up to resist boats rolling off their cradles, or the cradle rolling with the boat. Webbing straps might be a nuisance to walk amongst, but I expect insurers would encourage their use - or penalise failure to use them, if the option was there.
Are there any estimates on the cost to amateur sailors and their insurers, for clean-up and repair/replacement after this weekend?
Then high-vis webbing 'lashings' could be set up to resist boats rolling off their cradles, or the cradle rolling with the boat. Webbing straps might be a nuisance to walk amongst, but I expect insurers would encourage their use - or penalise failure to use them, if the option was there.
Are there any estimates on the cost to amateur sailors and their insurers, for clean-up and repair/replacement after this weekend?
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anoccasionalyachtsman
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As I understand it, they're common in the southern parts of the US.
I've been exasperated by all of this since the 1987 storm when I woke up in the thick of it. The insurers could do a bit of insisting on tie-downs, but it's the owners that really should know better. It's all very well being insured, but these events mean that all boatbuilders get flat out busy, and many of these boats will miss a complete season, and you can't claim that from your policy. Roller sails off, mast down out of the water when gales are likely.
I should say that it's not realistic trying to avoid all storm damage. In 1987 marina-moored boats were laid over so far that they were dismasting each other, and toerails, stanchions etc. damaged by the pontoons they were forced under.
FinesseChris
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calling anything that floats Canute is a bit odd
Blueboatman
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Back, waaay back, I went through a glancing hit with hurricane Luis, in what proved to be a very active Caribbean season,
it was the next ‘ minor’ one, Marilyn, which seemed to do a surprising amount of damage -I reckon still that a series of storms tug at any weak spots until they let go -moorings, frayed lines, poorly stowed sails, marginally propped boats ashore..
Same with trees , the ground gets wetter and wetter under the roots ..
it was the next ‘ minor’ one, Marilyn, which seemed to do a surprising amount of damage -I reckon still that a series of storms tug at any weak spots until they let go -moorings, frayed lines, poorly stowed sails, marginally propped boats ashore..
Same with trees , the ground gets wetter and wetter under the roots ..
Praxinoscope
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Another casualty from the recent winds, some more sad sails, never will understand anyone leaving their sails up when laid up on the hard fro 6 months.
