Caribbean Facility Updates

Here's from IGY's pages.

Marinas Currently Under Repair:

• The Marina at Ortega Landing – Jacksonville, FL
• Blue Haven Resort & Marina – Providenciales, Turks & Caicos
• Marina at Yacht Haven Grande – Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
• American Yacht Harbor Marina – Red Hook, St. Thomas
• Yacht Club at Isle de Sol – Simpson Bay, St. Maarten
• Simpson Bay Marina – Simpson Bay, St. Maarten

They suggest emailing them for any more information. They are operating fully Rodney Bay in St. Lucia.

I think much of the area is pretty much in an assessment and repair state and not ready to accommodate and serve guests yet. In the next two months a lot will change and most well funded marinas can make significant recovery. Now, as to what is on land, it's not as easy.

I have no idea the status of the hotel.

The drone footage brings an eerie perspective. The carnage is beyond belief!

The music is suitably mournful....

I was in Rodney Bay Marine in St Lucia for Irma and Maria, nothing happen here, but they need to fix wifi this is terrible no cominucation those days...

Hugues

Amazed by the number of upside down cats.

A couple of observations looking at the remnants of the three/four hurricanes. Sailboats have a lot worse time of it than powerboats. Far greater percentage of sailboats flipped and/or sunk.

Powerboats in well constructed floating docks (concrete docks, tall piles) survived better than others including in most cases with high winds, better than boats on land.

Fiberglass boats did better in the storms than wooden houses.

Just one person's observations from first hand looks in TX and FL and photos and videos in FL and the Caribbean.

Don't you have access to a camera so we can see something of all you tell us...?

Photos and videos are readily available online. We don't use cameras generally and when helping or working in a hurricane torn area our last thoughts were to take photos of it. I offered only as my personal observations.

That video is amazingly awful. But what I'm curious about is the failure mode for large yachts, that sink in their slips. Presumable they remain tied in place so why did they sink? Swapped by waves, rain? Holed by floating debris? I would think, short of holing, they would be sealed up pretty tight and have enough bilge pumping capacity to evacuate whatever water would get in. I was under the impression that, boats were generally lost when boat/docks were floated off due to storm surge or chaffed lines and got away (mooring or dock). But many of these boats seem sunk with dock lines still in place?

I would assume that there is some time of above or below waterline breach that allows water to enter the bilges and the bilge pumps usually stop working after they have depleted their DC source?

I think being in 170mph winds and waves, while being upside down, really screws with your Rule float switch.