dave-j
Well-known member
Did not mean to imply the Can Do sank in the gut itself, sorry. The whole area is my home fishing ground and it is scary to think about the storm. It's just strange to think it ended up in Tinker's.
BTW, I had a 42 sailboat destroyed in the "Perfect Storm". Was on its mooring near the mouth of Marblehead harbor and the pendants simply parted and she ended up on Brown's Island where it was beat to pieces by the surf. The whole row of sailboats near mine met a similar fate.
When we got to the beach and found the foredeck the cleat was still attached and the mooring lines still hanging off, parted about 6 feet down, about half the distance they went to the mooring. They were a 1.25" braided nylon hawser and a 1' twisted steel cable covered in plastic.
The insurance adjuster was completely blown away by the destruction of five boats scattered along a rocky shoreline. He spent all of five minutes before declaring "act of God" and leaving!
BTW, I had a 42 sailboat destroyed in the "Perfect Storm". Was on its mooring near the mouth of Marblehead harbor and the pendants simply parted and she ended up on Brown's Island where it was beat to pieces by the surf. The whole row of sailboats near mine met a similar fate.
When we got to the beach and found the foredeck the cleat was still attached and the mooring lines still hanging off, parted about 6 feet down, about half the distance they went to the mooring. They were a 1.25" braided nylon hawser and a 1' twisted steel cable covered in plastic.
The insurance adjuster was completely blown away by the destruction of five boats scattered along a rocky shoreline. He spent all of five minutes before declaring "act of God" and leaving!
