hmason
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This is almost unbelievable. I'm sure many of you will remember my thread "The Pod Parted." So my friend who hit a rock and lost the pod drive unit finally got his boat all fixed and back in the water after 5 1/2 weeks.
Saturday he left with his wife for a weekend trip to one of our favorite harbors, Port Jefferson, NY. I own a mooring there and when my friend goes there he asks permission to use my mooring if he knows I am not heading there. Naturally I give my permission. This time I had promised it to another friend. Port Jeff has an extensive mooring field and as the season is drawing to a close many moorings were vacant and he picked up an unused mooring.
At about 8am this morning they were awakened by a loud bang. He rushed to the saloon and found the anchor pulpit and the anchor of a boat sticking through a 5' long oddly shaped port side saloon window. Glass was everywhere. Seems the winds had kicked up and the mooring lines on the "appropriated" mooring parted and his boat turned beam to the wind and drifted onto the boat on the mooring downwind of his. The mooring had 2 lines and they let go at the mooring ring. He was able to remove himself from the impaled position because pod drives can move the boat sideways.
Thinking back to a recent thread about using a mooring that is not yours...
I guess his season is over.
Howard
Saturday he left with his wife for a weekend trip to one of our favorite harbors, Port Jefferson, NY. I own a mooring there and when my friend goes there he asks permission to use my mooring if he knows I am not heading there. Naturally I give my permission. This time I had promised it to another friend. Port Jeff has an extensive mooring field and as the season is drawing to a close many moorings were vacant and he picked up an unused mooring.
At about 8am this morning they were awakened by a loud bang. He rushed to the saloon and found the anchor pulpit and the anchor of a boat sticking through a 5' long oddly shaped port side saloon window. Glass was everywhere. Seems the winds had kicked up and the mooring lines on the "appropriated" mooring parted and his boat turned beam to the wind and drifted onto the boat on the mooring downwind of his. The mooring had 2 lines and they let go at the mooring ring. He was able to remove himself from the impaled position because pod drives can move the boat sideways.
Thinking back to a recent thread about using a mooring that is not yours...
I guess his season is over.
Howard
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