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pastmember
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Initially Posted - 10/20/2011 : 17:39:09

I mentioned in the hull area thread that a photo was minutes before my new to me '89 was blown across our parking lot by a 100 mph wind, (back in '05). We are used to storms in Kansas so we tend to under react leading to... a phone camera shot of my boat after it crossed the lot, broke off two wooden parking posts and dug a hole in the ground with its bow wheel that stopped it from going into the "small boat cove".

But no harm no foul on the '89, my sin was forgetting about my Hobie 17 in the boat yard, it died that day.

Frank Hopper

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cshaw
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Response Posted - 10/20/2011 : 17:50:55

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by pastmember
 I mentioned in the hull area thread that a photo was minutes before my new to me '89 was blown across our parking lot by a 100 mph wind, (back in '05). We are used to storms in Kansas so we tend to under react leading to... a phone camera shot of my boat after it crossed the lot, broke off two wooden parking posts and dug a hole in the ground with its bow wheel that stopped it from going into the "small boat cove".
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Frank, Wow! THAT was impressive! Glad the C25 made it and sorry about your Hobie!!

Chuck

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OJ
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Response Posted - 10/21/2011 : 08:52:57

Yep Frank, you certainly are a bad boat owner. I propose you be ex-communicated from the forum - for at least 5 minutes.

Unless maybe you mean like motorcycle gang bad then that's a whole 'nother story!

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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 10/21/2011 : 10:17:40

Maybe it's the state that's the problem. (Ref: The Wizard of Oz)

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 10/21/2011 : 15:26:49

Frank, was that the storm that came through the park the day before your Nationals? I seem to remember seeing downed trees as we drove to the marina.

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 10/21/2011 : 16:02:18

Yes, I think it was a week before but as you may recall I had not sailed my boat before we hit the starting line. I did get the bottom painted so it must have been the week before. The downed tree in the foreground killed a friend's Lexus.

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Response Posted - 10/21/2011 : 16:03:09

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 Maybe it's the state that's the problem. (Ref: The Wizard of Oz)
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We love or state where the horizon is only 12 feet closer than on open water.

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Response Posted - 10/22/2011 : 02:53:26

Kansas, I respect it. Drove right into this one

Once in the cell I couldn't see 20 feet ahead nor could anyone else on the interstate as we all pulled over and got battered and possibly flipped if my profile was anything larger than a jeep.

I also respect Utah electrical storms after taking shelter in a tent and waiting for that strike to neutralize both of our tingly sensations as if we had our hands on that aluminum science museum ball (Van der Graaf generator) and possibly end our lives as we knew it (I looked it up later realized our incredible luck in not being a conductive circuit in that particular electrical storm). Part of the reason I'd rather not be the Bad Boat Owner without at minimum a throw-overboard freshwater mast grounding system.

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Response Posted - 10/23/2011 : 20:57:04

hi everyone, i'm new here but after seeing those pis i couldn't resist posting mine, they're from hurricane Irene, my boat was on Lake Champlain and it was damaged, i'm still waiting for the insurance company to move but the 2 repair guys that checked it said it was an easy repair... hope i'll have it ready for next spring :-/

the view from my cockpit the morning after (i didn't spent the night there, i was just arriving)

my beloved C25, the way i found it the next morning, my immediate neighbor helped me the day before to prepare it for the storm, removing the sails, doubling the lines and everything, if my other neighbor would've done the same everythimg would have been perfect by the &?%% didn't even show up to prepare...

on this pis taken during the storm we can see my neighbor's sonic 23, held by a single line (the only one that didn't break), being transformed into a ram and smashing my transom...

his boat is a total loss, if you notice the way he puts his lines to his boat, that's his usual method... gives you an idea about his seamanship...

that's mine :-/

back to the cradle...

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 10/24/2011 : 03:15:13

Those photos make me cringe. Like watching a science fiction movie. That transom really took a beating ! I guess it could have been worse. Your neighbor - A total loss...well at least he won't be back ? Or maybe with another boat ?

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 10/24/2011 : 06:22:24

Some ugly stuff there... Hope your neighbor doesn't get a bigger boat.

Richard, you might be the first ever to post annotated photos in your first submission to this forum--congratulations! And welcome! Keep in touch!

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blanik
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Response Posted - 10/24/2011 : 08:51:10

that's what i thought (i hope he doesn't get a 33 footer).. haha

yes it's not as bad as it looks, the engine wasn't even scratched, the rudder gudgeons and the transom under them where also intact, the rudder broke... more disintegrated under the repeated hits, it's probably the rudder that absorbed most of the beating... it's more a fiberglass job

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 10/24/2011 : 09:14:54

Yes it is a significant amount of fiberglass work and it is sort of structural as well but at least it is not below the water line. Anything below thew waterline and that would certainly concern me to a much greater extent.

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Response Posted - 10/24/2011 : 09:34:57