On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:20:41 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:50:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:57:58 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:48:32 -0400, wrote:

On his way down the East Coast approaching St Augustine on the inside.

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Nicely anchored in a really beautiful marsh, 9 miles north of St
Augie. We saw lots of serious dock damage in the JAX area and there
are some good sized timbers floating around just to make life
interesting. There are also a fair number of 30 something sailboats
aground and abandoned along the ICW, most with very visible sail and
canvas damage. Every one is a heartache for some unfortunate owner.

Some guys had a real bad day.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Bad%20day%20for%20boaters.JPG

I wonder how they will get these out? Big crane on a barge?

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Ouch. Where was that? The salvage operation will make for a good
YouTube video however they do it. The trouble with a barge crane is
that the fine for damaging those mangroves will probably exceed the
value of the boats.

I would like to see that before it was cropped. I suspect the water is
right below the line of mangroves you see in the shot so a big enough
crane might be able to reach over them and pick up the boats.
Usually you will have a patch of deep water right up against the
mangroves.
That needle grass they are sitting in will come right back if they
lift the boats straight up.
Trying to cut them up for scrap might do more damage than the salvage.
It will certainly be an interesting operation.
DEP might decide simply cutting a hole in the mangrove wall is the
least damaging thing they can do. There will be some mitigation either
way.
I till try to find out more about the picture. It was in the snooze
press.