More Irene AYC Photos

[CurrentSea]

 

[jlee815]

Thanks for sharing.... If anything in your fridge got spoiled at least it will be very easy to throw off the back deck into the dumpster

I never thought about cordsets and flooding. I would think one would not want to leave them connected. The dog looks like a howling wolf

 

[pdecat]

+1 for the dog howling at the storm.

 

[littlebookworm]

Wow! I'm sort of glad we decided not to slip there. The entire place was under water. Those guys "walking" in the water to check on boats are either very brave or very stupid. I can't decide which. There is much debate on leaving shore power cables connected. From what I've seen and read, the consensus seems to be to leave them connected so that the bilge pumps will continue to run as needed because the batteries are fully charged. Refrigerators and such should be turned off because, if the shore power goes out, they switch to battery power and can kill batteries overnight. That's what I did with our boat; shore power connected, chargers on, refrigerator off. Hy

 

[David M]

That's gotta be the biggest dock box I've ever seen.

 

[walterv]

Power was cut off at the marina prior to the storm

 

[PascalG]

looking at the waves almost coming over those islands or whatever they are show how close it was, it woudlnt' have taken much to make this a disaster... another 10 or 15kts , a few degrees on the track.

glad you guys dodged a bullet!

 

[CurrentSea]

Those guys walking in the water were us.
Power was cut off to marina.
Though, it was stupid becuase I found out afterwards from electrician they cut the power to the power box which is on the dock down a ways and was covered by a foot of water. So the feeder cable to the box was still live!
Yikes!

As for the marina, I think you would be hard pressed to find any marina on South Shore that didn't have water over the docks and into the parking lot.

The nice thing about AYC is the dock and lot are one, so we don't have to navigated skinny fingers that are under water to reach our boats. Actually could drive though most of the water but parked to get out and look around and get closer!

 

[littlebookworm]

Glad you guys are OK. As you describe it, it could easily have been a disaster. We're out at Blue Point. When we went to the marina on Saturday afternoon, the boats were floating almost even with the parking lot. The water level was about 10" below the dock/parking lot. During the hurricane, the boats were probably over the height of the lot. None seemed to have been damaged; spring lines did their job. Some of the smaller boats were hauled and probably trailered home; no boats were hauled onto the parking area. I just got back from putting up the camperback and taking off the mooring cover. The only problem I had was that the plastic bottle of fuel stabilzer I had on board tipped over and spilled on the deck. A quick wipe-up and hosing cleaned it all. Stay safe, everyone. Hy

 

[BornToBoat]

Dave, how far above the dock do you estimate the storm surge was? It looks like it may have been 2', but I can't tell.

 

[CurrentSea]

Depends on the dock.
D dock was a foot.
F dock looked like 18 inches.
C dock was about a foot.
Nomal high tide is about a foot below, so you could say 2 feet, but it was probably more because it filled in the roads. Water was up to Montauk highway.
I said this before, Long Island is flat, so water surges but rolls North and therefore surge appears less. It' can't keep rising without swallowing more land.

 

[rduhon]

Welcome to my world. We been dealing with this every year for the past 40something years.
Hope everyone made out all right up there.

We are starting to evacuate non-essentials off of our platforms and rigs as we speak.
There is a disturbance off of Cancun that is coming our way.