I was looking at the total loss of of Fairhope YC on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Why is it that with piles of boats on shore and sunken hull and mast all around, there is alway one or two boats just floating there like nothing happened? We need to know if these owners know something real good or are they just lucky as can be. GULF COAST UPDATE In 'Butt 1914, we called out for updates on the status of clubs along the gulf coast that may have incurred damage due to Hurricane Katrina. The information below is accurate to the best of our knowledge, and accounts for a significant number of clubs that are members of the Gulf Yachting Association (http://www.gya.org) * Confirmed Reports of Total Loss or Significant Damage: Bay Waveland YC (Bay Saint Louis, MS) Biloxi YC (Biloxi, MS) Gulfport YC (Gulfport, MS) Long Beach YC (Long Beach, MS) Ocean Springs YC (Ocean Springs, MS) Pascagoula YC (Pascagoula, MS) Pass Christian YC (Pass Christian, MS) New Orleans YC (New Orleans, LA) Ponchartrain YC (Mandeville, LA) South Shore YC (New Orleans, LA) Southern Yacht Club (New Orleans, LA) Buccaneer YC (Mobile, AL) Fairhope YC (Fairhope, AL) Mobile YC (Mobile, AL) * Damage Suspected But Not Confirmed: Singing River YC (Pascagoula, MS) Tammany YC (Slidell, LA) Lake Forest YC (Daphne, AL) Point YC Gulf (Shores, AL) * A message board at New Orleans YC has many postings regarding area damage: http://noyc.info/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl * A photo gallery showing the damage at Fairhope YC, which resides on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay and was situated along the eastern edge of the storm: http://tinyurl.com/a5d4q
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Mobile Bay
Andy, its a sad day for Mobile Bay. The western shore marinas look about the same. Bob Mobile
Andy, its a sad day for Mobile Bay. The western shore marinas look about the same. Bob Mobile
Pensacola FL
We lost are marina again(ivan first). I don't know if the owner is going to rebuilt. My boat made it this time. I lost one to Ivan. I feel sorry for all of their them I know how the feel Joe
We lost are marina again(ivan first). I don't know if the owner is going to rebuilt. My boat made it this time. I lost one to Ivan. I feel sorry for all of their them I know how the feel Joe
Daulphin Island too?
I know of 5 foot floods almost to I-10/Tilman's Corner area that ruin houses that were well away from Dog and Fowl Rivers. I assume Pelican Reef marina and restaurant are wasted. I'm sure Daulphin Island was hit real hard too. Barnicle Bill's was just rebuilding. I don't know where I'll eat when I visit now!
I know of 5 foot floods almost to I-10/Tilman's Corner area that ruin houses that were well away from Dog and Fowl Rivers. I assume Pelican Reef marina and restaurant are wasted. I'm sure Daulphin Island was hit real hard too. Barnicle Bill's was just rebuilding. I don't know where I'll eat when I visit now!
Bon Secour, AL
About 18 miles east of Daulphin Island, and 10 miles south of Point Clear, where the ICW opens into the Bay. Sailboat Bay came thru in good shape.
About 18 miles east of Daulphin Island, and 10 miles south of Point Clear, where the ICW opens into the Bay. Sailboat Bay came thru in good shape.
Up the River
A friend who has lived aboard almost 30 years left Turner's Marina on the Dog River and went up into the swamp and tied to trees. He wrote that he had no damage. But Turner's marina is heavily damaged. He has no slip and is anchoring out and using his dinghy to get to shore. I guess it might be misleading he went up the Mobile River into a hole in knows in the Tenesaw delta. I don't think that you can go very far up the dog river. Tom
A friend who has lived aboard almost 30 years left Turner's Marina on the Dog River and went up into the swamp and tied to trees. He wrote that he had no damage. But Turner's marina is heavily damaged. He has no slip and is anchoring out and using his dinghy to get to shore. I guess it might be misleading he went up the Mobile River into a hole in knows in the Tenesaw delta. I don't think that you can go very far up the dog river. Tom
Pensacola marina
Joe, what marina in pens. are you at? Southwind? I am one of the few in Mobile that still have a boat, just lucky I guess. Glad to hear yours made it.
Joe, what marina in pens. are you at? Southwind? I am one of the few in Mobile that still have a boat, just lucky I guess. Glad to hear yours made it.
Southwind
Bob yes my boat was in the Southwind. Right know I am up a creek (without a paddle ha ha)on hook. I am going down there to see the boat. I know that it is OK because a friend of my checked on it after the strom Joe
Bob yes my boat was in the Southwind. Right know I am up a creek (without a paddle ha ha)on hook. I am going down there to see the boat. I know that it is OK because a friend of my checked on it after the strom Joe
It's too sad...
I realize that the human toll is far worse in places such as Mobile, New Orleans, etc; but there is something sad about a beautiful sail boat with it's bow sticking up out of the water. Just knowing that the rest of a wonderful boat is under water and that the owner, insurance or no insurance, is devastated. The hours of fun, family and friends ruined for the season (or maybe for good) on this particular boat is over. It's true that boating is a luxury indeed, but we who do it work hard for our pleasures and it is bad news when weather and fate end or interrupt the good times. I boat on the Great Lakes far from the dangers of the Gulf and Atlantic but all of you who suffered damage and destruction are in my thoughts. My best hopes and wishes go out to one and all. Chin up mates, Mike S/B Pitterpat, Lake Huron
I realize that the human toll is far worse in places such as Mobile, New Orleans, etc; but there is something sad about a beautiful sail boat with it's bow sticking up out of the water. Just knowing that the rest of a wonderful boat is under water and that the owner, insurance or no insurance, is devastated. The hours of fun, family and friends ruined for the season (or maybe for good) on this particular boat is over. It's true that boating is a luxury indeed, but we who do it work hard for our pleasures and it is bad news when weather and fate end or interrupt the good times. I boat on the Great Lakes far from the dangers of the Gulf and Atlantic but all of you who suffered damage and destruction are in my thoughts. My best hopes and wishes go out to one and all. Chin up mates, Mike S/B Pitterpat, Lake Huron
St. Tammany YC
ST.Tammany YC & Oak Harbor maring had major damage if not total devastation. I used to live in Eden Isles, right behind Oak Harbor. There is nothing left there, and I still have no idea where my boat is. Friends who had a boat at Oak Harbor said it is missing. As bad as it is, I am one of the fortunate ones.
ST.Tammany YC & Oak Harbor maring had major damage if not total devastation. I used to live in Eden Isles, right behind Oak Harbor. There is nothing left there, and I still have no idea where my boat is. Friends who had a boat at Oak Harbor said it is missing. As bad as it is, I am one of the fortunate ones.
Sinking, breaking lose, and staying put.
(first of all I should point out that in the Keys we basicly had no warning, we were TOLD not to board up and that me might expect an outer rain band or two and gusts up to 35 mph. What we got instead was 16 hours of 55 - 86 mph sustained gusting into the 120's) During and after Katrina down here in the Keys lots and lots of boats broke lose, sank and were dammaged or destroyed, mine was not. Aside from the ones that were hit by others the main problem seemed to be lines chafing. I used chain. Some sank on their moorings and simply went right to the bottom, most of these seem to have chafed on one side and not the other, the wind then heeled them over and 7+ foot waves did the rest filling them faster than their bilge pumps could keep up with. My boat is a Cape Dory 25 and the only damage it had was my biminy turned into a ball of fuzzy blue lint and my waterproof charts got wet. My mooring is a large slab of concrete (with all sorts of rock, rebar and chain inside of it and is about 650 lbs) with a few hundred feet of heavy chain, ther is another 40 feet of slightly lighter chain that normaly goes (via sevral swivels and) to nice lines that I attach to my boat. This time however I happened to have removed those lines so I could bring them home for inspection and left my boat chained directly to the bottom. When my boat is chained to the bottom it usualy seems to have no scope unless the wind is howling, on the day after the storm it was still blowing about 35 - 40 when I went out to see if I still had a boat at all. What I saw on the way was astonishingly depressing, hundreds of boats sank ranaground or just splintered, almost all of them were liveaboards. Cheers, Neil
(first of all I should point out that in the Keys we basicly had no warning, we were TOLD not to board up and that me might expect an outer rain band or two and gusts up to 35 mph. What we got instead was 16 hours of 55 - 86 mph sustained gusting into the 120's) During and after Katrina down here in the Keys lots and lots of boats broke lose, sank and were dammaged or destroyed, mine was not. Aside from the ones that were hit by others the main problem seemed to be lines chafing. I used chain. Some sank on their moorings and simply went right to the bottom, most of these seem to have chafed on one side and not the other, the wind then heeled them over and 7+ foot waves did the rest filling them faster than their bilge pumps could keep up with. My boat is a Cape Dory 25 and the only damage it had was my biminy turned into a ball of fuzzy blue lint and my waterproof charts got wet. My mooring is a large slab of concrete (with all sorts of rock, rebar and chain inside of it and is about 650 lbs) with a few hundred feet of heavy chain, ther is another 40 feet of slightly lighter chain that normaly goes (via sevral swivels and) to nice lines that I attach to my boat. This time however I happened to have removed those lines so I could bring them home for inspection and left my boat chained directly to the bottom. When my boat is chained to the bottom it usualy seems to have no scope unless the wind is howling, on the day after the storm it was still blowing about 35 - 40 when I went out to see if I still had a boat at all. What I saw on the way was astonishingly depressing, hundreds of boats sank ranaground or just splintered, almost all of them were liveaboards. Cheers, Neil
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