What's everybody in Fla doing about Irma?

[madhatter1]

And just now the larger commercial boat popped loose and drifted fast to the other side!!!

 

[Angela]

I have found every cleat on my Hatteras to be woefully inadequately. They are so small. I can barely...just barely get an everyday line on it with a storm line on top of that, and even then, the storm line is barely on the horn of the cleat; just barely. There is no way to triple cleat anything. I did the best I could with what I was given to work with. I've seen much smaller boats with ways bigger cleats than Hatteras provided. Just praying at this point.

 

[Pascal]

Clears are a problem on just about every boat. The samson posts we have on the aft deck are nice, at the bow cleats can easily be upgraded. Mid ship cleats, yes, there should be at least one more.

Looks like we dodged a bullet. Not many details yet, all i got was a picture taken ealy with poor light. Looks like i took out one or two pilings on the aft port side due to lines stretching, so rub rail damage, most of the sprat panels are missing along with railing section.the slant side panel i had replaced is gone too and possibly the wing door... could have been worst.

I guess the list of stuff to work on in the yard when i hauo out for repower sept 29 just got a bit longer...

 

[Freeebird]

Hopefully everybody will start checking in, but given he can't post, I can tell you that Scott aka boatsb and family made it through with minimal damage. Hoping everyone else came through okay as well.

 

[rsmith]

Mostly tree damage here moorings marina got torn up

 

[rsmith]

Walk the plank

 

[rsmith]

with my daughter Laura. Surfs up!

 

[rsmith]

1955 Rybo one go the boats my daughter and her husband look after.

 

[rsmith]

Still no power here about 11 last night saw the sky light up green probably a transformer explosion. Both bridges to the island are still closed due to light poles down on the bridges

 

[Avenger]

I saw the Rybo before and I was going to ask about it but I figured you had your hands full. Beautiful boat.

Glad to hear that everybody has come through in good shape so far. Hopefully we keep hearing more of the same.

 

[rsmith]

We're stuck on the island. Cops blocking A1A at the county line for looters coming up from Ft Pierce. I'm hearing bad news about the Ft Pierce marinas but just what the St Lucie sheriff told me. I think I saw Thoward with his 52c was at the city marina I seem to remembered he wasn't too confident about the sintuation

 

[Tim Powell]

i saw the rybo before and i was going to ask about it but i figured you had your hands full. Beautiful boat.

Glad to hear that everybody has come through in good shape so far. Hopefully we keep hearing more of the same.

still one left tobey and his 52 hat spellbound kinda worried.

 

[Spellbound]

Everything good here Tim... We (above Naples) were very fortunate Irma made landfall where she did as wind and surge damage was greatly lessened. Wasn't the case for Charley as it was us it turned into ..... very very lucky.

 

[PeterK]

Haven't been to see her yet but got 2 reports we look good. Hope more west coaster chime in they are okay!

 

[Fish Tales]

Here in Daytona, extremely windy. Got a 2;30 am call rogue sailboats in the harbor. Seemed derilick sailboats in the river busted moorings and washed in to pay a visit. 8 boats including myself, had double lines from boat to poles on other side to adjacent docks. Abandoned sailboats got keel and rudder tangled, and there they rode all night. So lucky. Several boats miss tied rode atop pilings and are holed. Fish Tales rode perfectly 6 feet away from dock, and as of this AM not a scratch. Now the junky sailboats have to leave, and hopefully no more derelict boats paid a visit while I was at home chainsawing. Visit her again tomorrow AM, and try to take some pics. Hope all is well on West Coast, Prayers,Tim

 

[capttonyf]

I'm told by a captain friend of ours that looks after our boat it made it through in Lauderdale without much damage. We pulled and broke a piling off the dock, and the way it leaned on us it scuffed up the port side rail by the bow a little but not bad at all. Also we lost the Buggy Top on the Tower. So other then that he said the boat is filthy, and covered with sand, debris, and vegetation from the trees and plants in the area. Overall we were extremely lucky!

Tony

 

[wpc691]

Really dodged a bullet in Punta Gorda. After the eye hit Naples, we watched it creep almost straight north and a little east, away from the coast. By the time it reached Punta Gorda, the eye wall was just east of us, and we could see the rotation breaking up. Over the course of a few hours, the NHC flood forecast went from 6 ft above the road to 0. I've used the Windfinder app for several years, and have always thought it provides a very accurate forecast. Last night, it forecast steady wind of 67 mph, and gusts to 87 in Punta Gorda 3 hrs before the storm got here, while the Weather Channel was still predicting 125. I don't know what their model is, but it's pretty good.Tried to attach a picture of the boat at the dock (actually, above the dock), but I've lost my touch.

 

[Pascal]

The picture in Miami Coconut grove is getting grimmer by the hour. We re still anchored out in eleuthera but the pictures i ve seen of Dinner Key and adjacent marinas show dozens and dozens of boats sunk or hangin on docks or pilings. Anything from partially derelict sailboats to large SF and even a 90 MY

Pretty much every boat floating has some kind of damage

It also looks like dozens of boats, some say as many as 100, that were in the city mooring field are gone. Sunk or washed on the spoil islands.

Probably headin out to nassau to get fuel in the morning then on to miami. Will probsbly run at hull speed after i refuel in nas since we may have to keep the 84 on genset for a while and who knows when marine diesel will be available... the dock i get deliveries is heavily damaged

 

[rsmith]

Tons of debris washing up on the beach here in Vero The Gulf Stream must be a virtual debris field

 

[rsmith]

Stuart