Rangers are beautiful boats -- but overkill for an inland cruiser -- and way too compact and expensive for me. Plus I don't like outboards or gennies rachet strapped to swim platforms.
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There are more videos of that (@mimico_polak had a good one but I don't know where he got it). Lots of bumper boats. I didn't realize that some marinas were the mouth of rivers used for stormwater. As per the other discussion about 10M in cars getting flooded, while I didn't see any boats get damaged enough to sink, fibreglass and gelcoat repairs on most boats in a Marina will be a very big number.@crankcall
Is this at our marina?
Significant flooding leads to emergency response at Oakville Harbour
Yesterday, severe flooding in 16 Mile Creek and Oakville Harbour led to a significant rescue operation after 20 boats were affected.
I sent him one on WhatsApp yesterday. Maybe that is the one you are referring to.
Yeah. On a lawn, boats moving left to right. Some expensive sounding collisions with the docked boats.
Yes that's the one. I had to keep occupied with GTAM down!
The video showed the boats still tied to the dock...did the dock let loose and pull the boat...or did the boat pull the dock?
Our sites need to be built to 100 year storm surges to ensure that everything is safe during big rains. Our emergency water channel was about 90% at capacity...but the site and everything around stayed dry...
Dock is supposed to remain in place. Obviously many of the boats attached to the now mobile dock had sufficient mooring lines to keep them attached to the theoretically fixed object. Obviously I don't know enough to know if the dock floated its anchors or broke them off. In either case, that failure was outside of the boaters control and if an insurance company can dodge paying, I'm sure they'll try. I don't even know how boat insurance works in a mass casualty. Is it no-fault or is it still lawyers suing everybody?
Many in the boating community seem to think scuffing the side of someone else's $500,000 cruiser is like NASCAR. So what?
We ended up keeping someone on the bow to call them out, though there was one leg where we had to hang on to a tack upwind a lot longer than planned to go around a whole bunch of logs and deadheads.
We had a Star lose their tiller extension and round up uncontrolled into our leeward side a few weeks ago. Skipper was literally mid-sentence to ask if anyone was to leeward (large carbon genny not good for visibility) when the Star came leaping up the side of the boat like a shark (small 's'). Fortunately, we were heeled over pretty good (and on starboard, thank you very much), so they came up over the deck and only took out two stanchions and a portlight. They were in much worse shape, as our way meant the stanchions cut some pretty big gashes in her bow, and I think the boat was eventually written off (Stars are pretty cheap).
They have all the concept they need. "I am a rich entitled dick, gtfo of my way". Worst-case they get a ticket that is worth less than the champagne they drank on the cruise.
I was wondering what the giant metal pipe was. Apparently that was a debris boom that also broke free. Facepalm.
