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[rgano]

Thank you, TS Cristobal which went ashore several hunderd mile west of here. Guess my boathouse lighting project is on hold today.

 

[firehoser75]

Rich,
That doesn't look like fun at all!!

 

[slowgoesit]

Dang! Cristobal scared your boat right out of the water!

 

[menzies]

Yep soggy here all day today and tomorrow.

 

[rgano]

Yep, the storm scared it, alright. It is more afraid of barnacles n stuff. This overtopping is a not uncommon occurrence; happens few times a year with onshore wind patterns from tropical disturbances. We are exposed to the direct south only, and having the pier submerge early on during storms saves it from the ravages of wind-generated waves beating it up.

 

[DavidM]

Hmmm! That picture brings up some questions. Cristobal produced a storm surge of 3-4' in your area, right. It looks like another 3 feet would lift your boat off of its lift bunks. You do have maybe 4' of additional lift available which is maybe 10-11' above normal which should be ok for all but a Cat 4 or 5 storm. But can you raise your lift an additional 4' and not hit your boat house? Looks like the bow rail may extend beyond your boat house roof. Maybe you can reposition the boat further aft to get more room.

I see this all of the time here in Punta Gorda- lifts that can only give about 7' of surge protection. Any more and sooner or later there will be more, the boat will float off of the lift.

David

David

 

[DCDC]

We’ve been anchored in West Bay, northwest of Panama City, for two days waiting for Cristobal to go away. Rain and more rain, but not much wind. Rain cleared out this morning but now have SE 20-25 knots. Cristobal should be making landfall about now but the NHC mentioned the possibility of a secondary center of circulation forming in the eastern half.

 

[rgano]

Hmmm! That picture brings up some questions. Cristobal produced a storm surge of 3-4' in your area, right. It looks like another 3 feet would lift your boat off of its lift bunks. You do have maybe 4' of additional lift available which is maybe 10-11' above normal which should be ok for all but a Cat 4 or 5 storm. But can you raise your lift an additional 4' and not hit your boat house? Looks like the bow rail may extend beyond your boat house roof. Maybe you can reposition the boat further aft to get more room.

I see this all of the time here in Punta Gorda- lifts that can only give about 7' of surge protection. Any more and sooner or later there will be more, the boat will float off of the lift.

David

David

That photo is at spring high tide so only about a foot-plus surge. The boat is 35 feet overall, and the house is 50 feet long with boat centered fore to aft - bow rail well inside of eave. There is plenty of top hamper above what you can see with the lift limit switch set to have the anchor light one inch from striking the roof decking. Boat draft is 31 inches; so it would take that plus the extra foot-plus below the keel before it would float. WELL before a storm surge of that magnitude arrived, that boat would be miles away in a hole because it never remains in the lift for hurricanes The pilings used in this rebuild were forty footers to give the greatest height to the roof bands and also to allow for a slim, wind resistant profile so that next time a Cat five hits, I will have a place to bring the boat back to instead of this:

 

[rgano]

We’ve been anchored in West Bay, northwest of Panama City, for two days waiting for Cristobal to go away. Rain and more rain, but not much wind. Rain cleared out this morning but now have SE 20-25 knots. Cristobal should be making landfall about now but the NHC mentioned the possibility of a secondary center of circulation forming in the eastern half.

You are right around the corner from Fanning Bayou where we are. Anything we can do for you while in our area? Unfortunately, you are too wide and deep to fit into our spare slips or we invite you in. Windfinder says SE winds 15-28 MPH all night tonight and into tomorrow veering to S making it pretty bouncy under our boat.