Sometime in the early hours of 31st. Nov in an easterly gale, while
lying at a swinging mooring, Vista's mooring lines parted and she was
driven onto nearby rocks. I got to her at high water (9 AM) was
amazed to see that she was not a total loss as I had first assumed.
With the help of of my neighbours, a building contractor and a great
big digger, she was lifted and tracked along the shorline to the
quay where she now sits - and all before high water (3 PM) and a
forecast southwesterly that evening.
The keel appears to have taken the brunt of the damage, with
relativly little damage done to rest of the boat. The base of the
keel is ground thro for approx half its length from the base of
rudder forward.
Afterwards in the pub, buying drinks for all the kind people who help
me, I was asked how I felt, I pretented I was numb but really I was
embarrassed that I had let her down so badly.
The irony of the previous posts about voids in the keel is not lost
on me.
G.Towler 1043 "Vista"
lying at a swinging mooring, Vista's mooring lines parted and she was
driven onto nearby rocks. I got to her at high water (9 AM) was
amazed to see that she was not a total loss as I had first assumed.
With the help of of my neighbours, a building contractor and a great
big digger, she was lifted and tracked along the shorline to the
quay where she now sits - and all before high water (3 PM) and a
forecast southwesterly that evening.
The keel appears to have taken the brunt of the damage, with
relativly little damage done to rest of the boat. The base of the
keel is ground thro for approx half its length from the base of
rudder forward.
Afterwards in the pub, buying drinks for all the kind people who help
me, I was asked how I felt, I pretented I was numb but really I was
embarrassed that I had let her down so badly.
The irony of the previous posts about voids in the keel is not lost
on me.
G.Towler 1043 "Vista"