[Alberg30] weak piling

[George Dinwiddie]

> Alan P. Kefauver said:
> 	[snip]
> Oh, alright. In a heavy cross wind, Andante's bow sprit hit a piling and knocked it over. No damage to the boat at all, one dead piling, and one very mad marina owner.

I hope he wasn't planning on using that piling for anything.
Normally you'd expect the piling to resist the force of the whole 
boat.

 - George

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