Florence dumped a load of sand on my beach!:(

[bdahunter]

All I found last night was a hotel key and a pair of quarters, otherwise it was like a christmas carol - silent night! The current sure was running fast at the low tide yesterday though, storm debris was cruising by me at a couple of knots, it was like hunting in a river.
I did okay at the Mangrove Bay beach the day after the storm so I just have to find a beach that is facing in the right direction to have taken advantage of the storm surge.
That is the nice thing about an island, you can always check out a beach pointed in a different direction.
Either that or my beach has been hunted out by yours truly, time will tell.

I'll check out a different beach tonight and see what I find.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[Sand Dollar]

Now there you go!!! & I thought the storm woud have REMOVED sand.Well another is on the way his name is Gordon. Good luck.

 

[bdahunter]

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[Steve and Bia]

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[bdahunter]

I think West End Yatch's managed to pull it off the beach and down to the Dockyard for repairs today. Most of the boats were pulled out of the water around here, before the storm hit. Now I'm watching tropical depression 8 which is building stength off the Azores and predicted to come through Bermudian waters sometime next week.
I'm not looking forward to back to back hurricanes.
I'd be quite happy to wait for the winter storms to clear the sand as the hurricanes seem to just pile more up.

GN,

BDA

 

[Steve and Bia]

42' is a lot of boat. Did you get pictures?

 

[Wisconsin Pete]

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[Steve and Bia]

hire a salvage yard to dig it out. Probably with backhoe. If it's still in one piece, the salvage yard would buy it from the insurance company, or get a mechanics lien, restore it and sell it to someone else.

 

[syfta]

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[bdahunter]

Odds are that the structural integrity is compromised and it's not worth repairing her. Getting her dug out and refloated would be more trouble than she is worth after being filled with sand.

A mate of mine just picked up a 54' tri hull that was less than a year old. The original owner ran her onto the reefs off Grand Bahama Island and tore the bottom out of the main hull. The outriggers survived though so she didn't sink and was towed back to a yard in florida after some onsite repairs to keep her afloat.
My buddy bought it for $200k (insurance company wouldn't cover it because the wreck occurred outside US waters) and will sink another $200k and 3 months labour into her to make her right again (he's a shipwright). Not a bad deal when you consider the original owner paid $1.15M for her new 10 months ago.

Definition of a Boat - A hole in the water into which her captain throws money.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[Walter L.I.]

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[protech]

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