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Safe
Harbor:
Lessons learned from recent hurricanes
Photos
by David H. Pascoe, Marine Surveyor
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This doesn't
have to happen to your boat. With narrow slips and entirely
inadequate pilings, the boats in this marina never had a chance.
Numerous cleats and pilings lagged into the concrete docks came
loose. |
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The domino effect occurs when
one boat on a canal breaks loose and crashes into others, resulting
in a chain reaction that ends up with boats piled up at the
end of the canal. |
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With slip clearance of only
two feet, there was no way to protect this yacht from battering
against the pilings. |
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The pilings for the Bertram
in background are too close and too low. The sailboat in foreground
didn't have any pilings at all, just a few pieces of wood lagged
to the sea wall. Good pilings would have prevented this. |
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These boats survived the eye
of Andrew, despite fronting directly on Biscayne Bay with a
10' storm surge, by a combination of cross-tying and anchors.
The sail boat had 3 anchors out that saved it when the forward
mooring lines broke.
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