Wow!!!!! JohnB
On 5/2/2012 9:22 PM, Vernon Densler wrote: > So not a good day at all. Got the 3" pump and managed to pump the hull out > enough to see not only the last thing I expected but the last thing I wanted > to see. There is a 4" concrete piling skewering my hull. I was able to > slow the water down enough that the sump pump is keeping it almost empty. > While we were working on the boat we felt a crunch. I thought it was > shifting on the piling and it turns out that there is another piling now > piercing the hull just in front of my board case. I was told the slip was > shallow when the water was down but was not told that there was all kinds of > debris with pointy ends sticking out of the mud. The piling in the back is > in the inside of the port hull and the one in the middle towards the front > is on the outside of the port hull. > > The marina owner finally showed up at 4:00 and we put a section of PVC drain > pipe under it to try to keep it from going down much more. > > He is saying now that he is going to jack the port hull out of the water and > build cradle to hold the hull so we can repair the holes. Then when the > water comes up high enough to float her out without ripping the hull on the > spikes we will get her out of there. Hopefully he does this soon so that I > don't get any more damage. > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
