The end of the dock and this update

This is the dock past our boat – looking toward the Hilton Hotel in New Bern. It really doesn’t look that bad to me – but – they condemned it and made us move – we now in Bridgeton Marina (a mile or so up the river).

All for now…

Some of the power pedestals took a beating.

Some of the power pedestals took a beating.

Floating docks gone bad

Thought you might like to see some pictures of what happened to the floating docks. This is a finger pier (it goes from the main dock at a 90o angle to allow you to walk next to your boat) that broke loose.

We were very lucky

We were very lucky to survive the storm with such little damage and with a lot of luck and help from dock neighbors.

By our records we were hit by a 'violent storm'

We checked our wind instrument and the highest reading during the storm was 59 knots (67 mph) though the hurricane was classified as a category 1 (lowest) which indicate winds between 74 and 95 miles per hour.

Again, the good news here is that we did not get the higher winds of the eye of the storm.

The last 'broken' line...

Here is the line after it was removed…and we finished the separation process.

Which leads us to...another chaffed line

and, because the dinghy was blowing in the breeze (so to speak) our brand new davit line also chaffed, so we had to purchase a new line for one side. The other side was fine. One would think that you could just cut the end off and redo the splice but it is almost impossible to do so on ‘old’ line. Here, the good news is that the lines held and the dinghy was not lost.