Good Guys are everywhere

[Mo]

Well boys and girls I was off the radar for a few hours. On Friday evening myself and about 15 volunteer members of Shearwater yacht Club finished up the last marina repair for the season start...

I drove to the yacht club at 7am Saturday Morning and this was the sight. I'm the "Marina Manager" there...more lovingly known as the " dock bitch" . My heart sank as I saw the damage. These thing are 7000 lbs in weight, 8 ft wide, 30 feet long and two were trashed. Sliding chain jammed on a rising tide.

Called the vice Com and a few of us tried to free the stuck chains to no avail. We had a 6'7" tide and a chain got caught low on a piling (turned out to be a rusted hole and the chain bound up in it.)

....anyway, we couldn't free it so called an emergency work party for 3pm...at low tide. We got the two free but damage and twisting didn't allow us to get them apart. Dragged the two of them to the boat launch ramp and I hooked them to the Dodge Cummins and jumped on it....14000 lbs came up the ramp like a scalded cat....boom it was done. (there was a CAT mechanic in the yard at the time an I saw him near his truck and said " I hope you were paying attention" ....he said " holy *&^% if i didn't see it I wouldn't have believed it.)

The boys showed up 35 strong and we rebuild them. 7 1/2 hours later they were pushed back into the water with my plow cradle on the front of my truck....done. I am a member of the best damn club on the go. Boat launch is Monday for the rest of the members (I launch my own) and the guys and gals showed up and worked past dark to get things done. A major setback happened and the dream team pulled a rabbit out of a hat....PS, we corrected the hole in the piling as well until we can get a new one sorted out.

[Al Schober]

Boy, that looks nasty! Where are the 'After' pictures?
Is one of those boats across the way your race committee boat? (grin)

[tenders]

That looks like a Canadian minesweeper...maybe a Yard Patrol (YP).

Still in service?

[JOHN COOKSON]

This happens with wood pilings.
In our marina there were wood pilings in line with the ends of the finger docks between slips. Over the top of the piling they floated a old tire with a couple of eyes bolted to it. This gave a four point tie down to the boat.
One day when I was walking the marina to the boat I noticed the boat had a very distinct starboard list. Holy s**t she was sinking. When I got to the boat I noticed that there had been a very low tide sometime and the tire had gotten wedged in a cavity or hole in the piling and not floated up when the tide rose. I realized this is why my neighbor never tied off to the tire but used a spring line instead. This is what I did in the future.
The guys around the dock told me this happens sometimes. They also said it has been known to rip cleats off boats.
BTW if you ever loosen a line under strain wear gloves and keep a turn around a cleat or winch so you can do it in a controlled manner.

TRUE GRIT

[Mo]

F/U: currently busy with boat lauch...will get after pics as soon as I catch a break OK.

Best
Mo

[ndutton]

I pray F/U means Follow Up.

[dburns]

F/U

Oh, I can't let this go by without comment.

I spent nearly 40 years as an appointed official working for elected public boards. The last board I worked for very openly maintained an F/U list and called it such....generated at EVERY board meeting as "follow up" for me and staff. Basically a gotcha list. Staff generally had the other interpretation as did I.

Clearly Mo means follow up since there wasn't a public meeting as far as I can tell.

[Mo]

Follow up. F/U...I used it allot as a Physician Assistant (F/U 2/7)= follow up in two days. LOL

[Mo]

That looks like a Canadian minesweeper...maybe a Yard Patrol (YP).

Still in service?

The Canadian East Coast Fleet Diving Unit uses them as diving tenders. On there other side of the jetty they have lots of zodiacs; flat bottom boats etc as well. The blue one is an RCMP patrol catamaran. Depending on what's up she can be used for anti-smuggling (her main duty).