What's Last Assisted Wrecking Experienced Or Seen?

Question

Mine was observing blue water sloop part mooring in gale

and after blowing unattended was aground within an hour.

Coast Guard Station observed passage, put runabout

alongside, but couldn't save vessel. Owner made one visit

to secure personal effects but all else was total loss.

Answer 1

During Hurricane Ophelia a large power boat got loose in the canal at the marina where our sailboat was tied up in North Carolina.  My husband walked across a 12 inch plank to a boat that was tied to the canal wall, then moved the plank to reach from that boat that was secured to the wall across to the gunnels of the boat that was loose in the canal, walked across this plank again in the hurricane and threw a line ashore and the boat was saved, as were other boats that might have been wrecked if that boat had not been secured.  That was on September 13, 2005 I believe.

Answer 2

About a year ago, I was running a dive boat out of Port Fourchon, LA and one of the companies other boats lost it's rudder and one of it's engines and was tied up to a drill rig leg with a long line and an engine that was about to fail.  I made a mad dash in heavy fog to get out to it, then put it on the hip in 8 foot seas and brought it back in to a port in Florida.

Answer 3

I was aboard my 41 Islander in Destin Harbor During Hurricane Opal in 1995. I saw several boats lose their moorings, including mine.  By the way jet skis do fly!!!  The eerie part was that night when all the EPIRB strobes from all the sunken vessels were on and blinking in the otherwise dark harbor.