David, Don't beat yourself up. The boat would have been damaged resting on the rocks. Maybe not the same damage it suffered, but it would have been damaged. If it were found with no one aboard, I believe it would have been deemed abandoned and subject to salvage rights.
Joel On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:04 PM, David Knecht via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > I appreciate all the words of encouragement and stories of other people’s > mishaps. I have started thinking about alternative scenarios. One big > question is what we would have done if SeaTow had not been able to get the > boat off the reef or if we had refused the help. I might have been able to > get a ride ashore for crew and stayed with the boat, or hitched a ride and > come back later with a skiff (this happened 3-5 miles from mooring). I > don’t know anything about the legalities of leaving a boat on a reef > expecting to return before the next high tide. As I realize now, it was > closer to low tide than I thought and it is possible that we could have > floated off at the next high tide (about 11PM that night). One could always > get towed the next day at high tide. If I had left the boat there to let > crew get ashore and then come back out before high tide, when is a boat > considered “abandoned”? As someone commented, most of the damage was when > the boat was pulled off the reef, so there is an argument that I should > have waited given we were not taking on water. Of course that might have > changed at night at low tide and then I would have no help and no dinghy. > Dave > > Aries > 1990 C&C 34+ > New London, CT > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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