The $hit hits Boaters today

KnotRight

KnotRight

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Today around 4:50 we get alerts that there is a tornado in the area. The it came over the air that the Savannah Yacht Club got hit. I keep both on my boat there in trailers in the boneyard. I was going down there today to watch the last day of our Blue Water Tournament and weight in around 6. Thank G-D the storm did not get to the bone yard but the hoist got blown apart. We have 3 6 ton winches on the I beam. The beams are about 30 feet long. They got blown off the colunums and onto the dockmaster's house. A 23 center console got lifted out of the water and upside down on the floating dock. At this time, there must have been some bigger offshore boats coming in to weigh the catches. From anglers on the dock, they said that had mabe 15 to 20 seconds to make a decision. Another was parting on a sandbar and got stuck out there. I have been in 50+ mile wind and that is about the last place you want to be, Stores with in 3 miles had roffs removed from them. The boat hoist will be down in my guess 3 weeks. Last year it was the hurricane.

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KnotRight said:
I have been in 50+ mile wind and that is about the last place you want to be...
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Takes me back to my first career...

I was fortunate, been in those conditions several times, aboard vessels large and small, and always came out ok. Two times, it was while under sail. One was a hurricane, but it wasn't the worst. The worst was this storm, which came off the coast of Long Island and struck us, before it went to Ireland. Our task was to meet a Japanese longliner and take a US Fisheries observer off. The storm hit just as we arrived on station. We had to lay for three days with 85 knot winds and 45 foot seas, drifted 65 miles before we were able to jog back on the third day into 25 foot seas, on one engine. In the height of the storm, the Japanese longliner found us and steamed a big circle around us, then went off, probably to tend their gear.

We were in this vessel in 1979:

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One was injured from sheetrock hitting him at the Yacht Club and I think there was a couple minor injuries at the Ace Hardware store where the roof blew off
 
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