[Public-list] careening ship

[Mike Lehman]

Easy guys...

I am collecting stories for the next Keel wheel award. It is these kinds of 
of stories that warrant a nomination at the next Annual Dinner.

Mike Lehman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FINNUS505 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-list] careening ship


>
> In a message dated 1/19/2005 5:59:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> mainstay at csolve.net writes:
>
> that you  bear in mind that while the hulls of our boats are quite  strong
> >>> they are relatively soft.  The side of the boat  that she is resting 
> >>> upon
> >>> will push in; and of course come back  out again (presumably to her 
> >>> old
> >>> shape) when she is lifted  again.  To my mind you might be encouraging
> > the
> >>>  creation of deep cracks in the somewhat brittle gel coat.
> >>>
>
>
>
> I think I forgot to tell you guys about the 20 minutes Stargazer spent on
> her side on a ledge this summer. Silly me.
>
> It was that same day that our engine failed. That was while we were 
> passing
> through Woods Hole. Gee. We had the current with us, and there was about 
> 10
> knots of wind, so we kept going. All was going well, until a large 
> commercial
> fishing boat showed up, coming towards us in the channel. We moved over to 
> the
>  side of the channel to make room. I didn't realize the current crossed 
> the
> channel right there. The current swept us out of the channel, and boom, 
> into a
>  rock ledge, and then up onto the ledge. Gee, what fun. We were listing 
> over
> at  20 or 30 degrees, stuck fast, 4 knots of current sweeping by like a 
> river,
>  the dinghy planing wildly at the end of its painter. Looking over the 
> high
> side,  I could see the keel, prop, rudder. There were many colors of 
> bottom
> paint on  the ledge; small consolation.
>
> There was no point in stopping a motor boat and asking for a tow; we were
> really stuck. The only hope was that the incoming tide would float us off.
>
> Long story short, that is what happened. There was little wave action, but
> the boat did bounce a few times before being dragged off the ledge by the
> current in the higher water.
> We sailed home after that.
>
> These boats are tough. We had some superficial gouges on the bottom of the
> keel, and we found that internal void in the front of the keel that I had
> written about ealier this winter.
>
> Where the turn of the bilge was lying on the ledge, there was no damage 
> but
> some scrapes through the paint. Really. Luckily the ledge was smooth. 
> Inside
> the  boat, the fiberglass tape that bonds the bunk to the hull was broken. 
> Must
> have  happened while the hull flexed while the boat bounced. Easy fix.
>
> Tough boats.
>
> Lee
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