[Alberg30] Isabel Aftermath

[Melissa Currier]

Two Words.  MOORINGS ROCK.

Most, if not all, boats in slips or on lifts sustained damage.  Our two
were fine on moorings in Kitty Duvall Creek of the South River. 
Devastation all around, though.
>
> Albergers (kielbasa is good too),
>
> Now that she has come and gone, us inlanders would love to hear about
> how everyone faired.
>
> Roger Kingsland
> Chief Financial Officer (AKA, check writer)
> Mahina Manu, A30 #148
>
>
> Isabel did quite a job at the Quantico Marina on the Potomac.  I am told
> the airfield recorded gusts of 77 mph with sustained winds in the mid
> fifties.  The water rose to about 4.5 feet over the main pier and
> seawall, so it looks as if the storm surge was at least 7 or 8 feet
> above the level of a spring tide. The floating docks that were replaced
> earlier this summer had metal pilings at least 8 feet above normal high
> tide.  From the scrape marks on the pilings it appears that all of the
> docks floated to about 8 feet and a few came unshipped.  Along the south
> wall, many of the old floating docks came off their pilings.  All of the
> docks were substantially damaged and some are missing completely.  Many
> boats have at least cosmetic damage, one is sunk in her slip, and at
> least four or five more have sufficient damage that they are likely to
> be totaled.  One old Rhodes sailboat that had been tied to the North
> side of the pier was torn off and ended up high and dry in the adjacent
> Quantico Town Park with her wooden mast broken by the trees.  The
> Quantico Yacht Club facility was flooded and is totally destroyed.  A 28
> foot Bayliner was torn from its trailer and thrown into the clubhouse.
> (It floated out again.)  This impact and wave action moved the structure
> off its foundation.  Of the three Albergs at Quantico, only Delphi
> suffered some minor cosmetic damage to her stem. The wind and wave
> action in the marina was sufficient to stretch doubled ½ inch spring
> lines over 2 ½ feet. It is nothing that a bit of glass and epoxy won't
> cure, and now I have an excuse to paint the topsides.  These boats are
> tough.
>
> Ross Horton
> Delphi, #40
>  +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |
>            This Old Boat by Don Casey                     | |
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071579931/alberg30-20 |
> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Public-list mailing list -- Public-list at alberg30.org
> http://www.alberg30.org/mailman/listinfo/public-list
> To unsubscribe: email to Public-list-request at alberg30.org
> Include command "unsubscribe <password>" in subject or body.
> Use command "help" for more options.


Melissa Thompson Currier
Tel: 410-990-9855
Cell: 443-871-4602



 +---------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                This Old Boat by Don Casey                     |
 | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071579931/alberg30-20 |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------+

Public-list mailing list -- Public-list at alberg30.org
http://www.alberg30.org/mailman/listinfo/public-list
To unsubscribe: email to Public-list-request at alberg30.org
Include command "unsubscribe <password>" in subject or body.
Use command "help" for more options.

 1064249645.0