Is anyone hauling out in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy?

[jrowan]

Curious if anyone is hauling out for the "Frankenstorm" coming,
or do you think it's hyped up about coming down on the Delmarva
Penninsula & Chesapeake? I'm heading down to the boat in the morning
to double tie, remove my sails & bimini & go ahead & winterize for the end of the season. Forced upon me a lil too early this year, but better safe then sorry. But my boat has always rided the storms in the slip before, & this will be no exception. Good luck to all.

 

[Me and Boo]

Re: Is anyone hauling out in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy

From a York River marina, it looks like a few of us tightening up and clearing the decks. I will bring my mainsail below because it is a furling main and I don't like the idea of something letting it go out.

I have heard that one marina on the Rappahanock is hauling boats out.

 

[rpell1@msn.com]

The vast majority of boats in the NY harbor area are being hauled and my Club will complete the task by tomorrow evening. (Our members form a work party to haul our own 30 odd boats). I have elected to secure in an "inside" double sized slip, triple tie between the poles and wait it out. My bow is facing northeast with the hope of taking the brunt on the nose. I've been lucky with this strategy with previous storms and hope my luck holds out. Worst case scenario is the storm surge lifting the docks over the poles...........no way to prevent this but it hasn't happened for over 75 years.

So, everyone in the path, hold on tight and pray....Good luck all.

Curious if anyone is hauling out for the "Frankenstorm" coming,
or do you think it's hyped up about coming down on the Delmarva
Penninsula & Chesapeake? I'm heading down to the boat in the morning
to double tie, remove my sails & bimini & go ahead & winterize for the end of the season. Forced upon me a lil too early this year, but better safe then sorry. But my boat has always rided the storms in the slip before, & this will be no exception. Good luck to all.

 

[Jimm]

Curious if anyone is hauling out for the "Frankenstorm" coming,
or do you think it's hyped up about coming down on the Delmarva
Penninsula & Chesapeake? I'm heading down to the boat in the morning
to double tie, remove my sails & bimini & go ahead & winterize for the end of the season. Forced upon me a lil too early this year, but better safe then sorry. But my boat has always rided the storms in the slip before, & this will be no exception. Good luck to all.

About the same here in Annapolis, but not done sailing, so will have to put it all together again next week .......

 

[swampcreek]

We brought our boat up to Baltimore to a marina with floating docks, we got everything off but the headsail...it's stuck! We wrapped it with the spinnaker halyard and are hoping it survives.

 

[jsalley]

My marina (on the Rappahannock) was was nearly empty by noon. Most of the yards in Deltaville have been hauling continuously since yesterday.

 

[jrowan]

Re: Is anyone hauling out in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy

I've been thinking about what damage everyone with boats up in NJ, NY & Conn. areas have suffered in Hurricane Sandy. Hope y'all weathered O.K., but when your home has suffered & you've got no power, your boat is the least of your worries I reckon. How did y'all fare?

 

[rpell1@msn.com]

Hi,

As it turns out, my boat and 4 others that remained in the water, tied to our docks, survived. The other 45 boats that were hauled and placed only inches apart, came off their stands and piled up on each other, coming down on stands that penetrated hulls. The fact that the 5 boats in the water were "nested" by occupying double slips each and tide to the dock fingers facing northeast seems to have kept them as a unit and rose above and over the pilings coming down together. Pure luck and the grace of God kept me from hauling out with everyone else. I had about 14 lines, mostly springs to keep me off of the dock behind me, to keep me centered between the double space pilings. Strangely, one side of my rudder was completely wiped clean of bottom paint, while the hull and opposite side of the rudder was untouched. The only other damage I sustained was a bent bow pulpit rail, bent swim ladder leg and missing pedestal cover along with my dodger railing that was in fact tied to the cabin top but pulled out anyway. My main and jib had been tied securely and they survived. The Club was a disaster. We had a FIVE foot surge OVER the top of the bulkhead that entered the building and went through and out the front. The surge continued for 4 long blocks inland. We are praying for all survivors and that this is the last time we will see this kind of storm again.

I've been thinking about what damage everyone with boats up in NJ, NY & Conn. areas have suffered in Hurricane Sandy. Hope y'all weathered O.K., but when your home has suffered & you've got no power, your boat is the least of your worries I reckon. How did y'all fare?

 

[jrowan]

Re: Is anyone hauling out in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy

To rpell, Man that sucks about the boats getting wrecked in your marina. But I think you did the right thing, & obviously it payed off. But I did the same as you, double tied down with spring lines in a double slip. We had some flooding but nothing compared to what you guys have endured. I felt bad seeing all of those US aerial shots of before & after showing thousands of yachts up on the shore, presumably totalled. I reckon that most of them will be totalled, baecuase it will cost more to replace bent rudders, cracked keel joints & flooded cabins then they are worth. 70's & 80's era boats are just not worth enough on paper unfortunately & the insurance companies are pretty ruthless about totalling them. I've heard that they could buy them back for salvage, but they'll cost bundle to fix.

I also had a bent bow pulpit rail, & it is a bitch to fix. Mine bent up about 20 degrees over horizontal at the bow's leading edge. I had to heat it up with a blow torch but it is so strong that it wouldn't bend back down. I had to use a combination of heat & a padded sledge hammer to force it back down to level again. Mine has a small crack at the welded joint, but is still intact overall. S.S. tubing is very hard to weld & bend without a metal break tool beacuse its so strong. The inside of the tubing heats up slower then the outside. I also had problems getting the port side to stay as hot as the starboard side of the rail, so it takes a lot of heat to get both sides red hot. The outer steel started to bubble by the time I got it hot enough to bend it. It pitted the S.S. some, but I was able to grind it down, sand & polish it back to smooth again. A new pulpit rail from Catalina is nearly a thousand dollars, so if you can fix what you've got, its a lot cheaper.
I've also been able to bend back single stanchion rails & posts before. You have to make a long enough lever out of a clamped on 2" x 4" to get enough leverage to bend it back to vertical again. If its cracked at the base of the stanchion post then I would replace it. But those S.S. posts are stronger then they look. Good luck with your repairs, and remember that we were the lucky ones!