Pictures of Ian damage

[Celestialsailor]

Some pictures of the carnage from Ian. The insurance companies are going to be busy. I'm sure ebay will soon be loaded with used boat parts.

[Wolfe10]

Yup, that marina is just over 1 NM directly across the Caloosahatchee River from us. WHAT A MESS.


And, Legacy Harbor Marina in downtown Fort Myers is even worse-- and mostly high $$$$ boats.


Over 100 MPH winds sustained-- that is what happens! News channels are saying some of the gusts were over 140 MPH.

[GILow]

I cannot believe how many of those sailing boats still had sails on their furlers. (Well, the remnants of sails.)

[gonesail]

yep it was so quiet this year. nothing. no storms. then Ian came up so fast. in the scorching weather it is a challenge to get ready for a hurricane. so you get what we have in Ft. Myers.

[carlosproa]

So if the surge was 8 a 12 ft I wonder if some of these boats were anchored and accounted for that or simply tied to a mooring that would be worthless

The wind was not the culprit here, it was the massive surge

[Tetepare]

Originally Posted by GILow

I cannot believe how many of those sailing boats still had sails on their furlers. (Well, the remnants of sails.)

Mine would have been off. That said when the big one hit the Carib a few years ago I went through dozens of photos and counted how many had left the sails on. There was no correlation I observed between destroyed boats and sails.

Did the same survey after a big northeast storm hit a mooring field. Same. Some bare pole broke free, some with every darned bit of canvas up didn’t

While I’d think leaving sails up correlates to freed and broken boats, my counts did not support that.

[smj]

Just watched a video of Ft Myers Beach taken from the air and I was amazed that there were quite a few boats that survived on the moorings.

[s/v Jedi]

We stayed put while at anchor in 120 knots (not mph) sustained winds, not gusts. The wind is okay, the problems start when the boat shows a little bit of the side of the bow to the incoming waves, which then set the bow back sideways, jerking the anchor hard.

Keeping the bow into the waves is the key. Water is much denser than air.

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

We stayed put while at anchor in 120 knots (not mph) sustained winds, not gusts. The wind is okay, the problems start when the boat shows a little bit of the side of the bow to the incoming waves, which then set the bow back sideways, jerking the anchor hard.

Keeping the bow into the waves is the key. Water is much denser than air.

Must have been crazy. Did you have a method keeping the bow straight on the wind? What size and style anchor were you using?

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

Must have been crazy. Did you have a method keeping the bow straight on the wind? What size and style anchor were you using?

Our boat keeps pointing straight into the wind by itself. I think because it is a ketch with rather high mizzen mast.

We have a 176lb Bruce anchor. It took 5 hours to bring it up afterwards.

[zachduckworth]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Our boat keeps pointing straight into the wind by itself. I think because it is a ketch with rather high mizzen mast.

We have a 176lb Bruce anchor. It took 5 hours to bring it up afterwards.

I would not mess with you in a bar for any reason whatsoever.
But seriously congrats on riding it out, literally. How rough did the seas get?

[goboatingnow]

Originally Posted by GILow

I cannot believe how many of those sailing boats still had sails on their furlers. (Well, the remnants of sails.)

Doubt it would have protected them one way or the other

[bensolomon]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

We have a 176lb Bruce anchor. It took 5 hours to bring it up afterwards.

That's fantastic!

[smj]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Doubt it would have protected them one way or the other

The stress’s that a partially or fully unfurled jib would put on an anchored or moored boat would be huge, let alone the stress’s it would put on the rig.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by zachduckworth

I would not mess with you in a bar for any reason whatsoever.
But seriously congrats on riding it out, literally. How rough did the seas get?

We were in a very protected anchorage in Mt Hartman Bay in Grenada. The most damage was caused by a boat dragging into our anchor chain. The anchor sprit from welded 3/8” stainless steel was bent like a pretzel and chain links were welded to that stainless steel. I had to hammer them off and part of the links left behind on the stainless…. crazy!