Floating docks are ok for many storms but it gets to a point when the wind pressure combined with the leverage of the docks and boats high on the...
Bottom line boats can not survived a direct hit from a major hurricane. Period.
The thing about st Barths is that they know how to build... and they also know how to clean up after a storm while looting rages on sxm or stt ......
Exactly... everyday I wonder how the world survived without AIS, bow thrusters and GPS!
Ais is an aid but is not an excuse... looking outside and using the radar should be the primary mean of collision avoidance. All it really does is...
Electricians have fixed the issue on our tee and its working. So far... keepimg the loads low for now. Fetch and exposure are critical, we can...
One Of the transformer on the dock popped its breaker and sparks when reset so still no power for now at our end except on on leg which doesnt do...
the crew here at city of miami run dinner key marina is doing a great job trying to return things to normal after irma despite the damage. We had...
And beyond marinas it will take a year for things to get cleaned up and foliage to return. From post hurricane experience there in the 80s and...
The damage we got here at dinner key is not consistent with the wind readings. We have dock boxes that exploded... a directTV dish on a piling...
If your oil pressure gauge shows correct pressure, it sounds like the alarm sender is bad. replace the sender or as a test swap with the other...
There are so many interesting classic designs... the big cat boats are quite a sight too and for shallow waters you cant beat the Commodore Munroe...
It s when the marketing department start designing boats... every inch is squeezed out of the engine room and used for staterooms. Too bad if it...
You must be talking about the 90 footer Mia. She wss normally tied along the long concrete pier so it seems to me that she got loose after the...
Fetch is key, in ftl (is that where you are?) you dont have the same problem we do down in the grove. Our marina is ok to 80/90kts, at least the...
It was a tough call on thrusday night. It seemed completly crazy to be heading where nobody was going. Apparently many boats went to the west...
Oh absolutely. Years ago i used to live st barths and between a business and two homes, the small boat and light twin aircraft were basically...
I am specifially talking about marinas in miami completely open to biscayne bay. Basically any marina with more than 1 nm of fetch is going to...
Not much they can do with such a huge slow fleet... not neough local captains to move them. Faster boats on the others hand, like the large...
The 70 footer i used to run was there and anything over 30kts from the E was tenable... i dont get it, safety was just 150nm east.
