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.
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.
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