Boy, Vern, that really sucks big time! Presumably, the marina owner takes full responsibility for the damage and will cover all the repair costs? I'm sure there's no comeback in terms of the value of lost sailing time but given the way you describe he never told you about old pilings I'd hate to see you incur any out of pocket expenses to haul and repair.
Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Densler Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:22 PM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Hull breach and about 2 feet of water in my boat. 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
