"mmc" wrote in
g.com:

My '63 Chris Craft "Caribbean" broke
loose of a very bad anchoring (by a paid "professional") when Floyd
passed by and ended up hard on the rocks on a causeway with some
gouges and scrapes


During one of the near miss hurricanes here in Charleston, a Hatteras 58
sport fisherman got loose from its poorly done docking, backed itself out
of its slip without touching another single boat that could be found,
drifted uninhabited out of Buzzard's Roost Marina in the Stono River, and
slamed itself over and over and over against the Stono River bridge pilings
of the very old swing bridge next to the marina.

That boat tore the bridge pilings all to hell!

The boat had its bridge hardtop torn off its mounting and the handrails
were a mess. But the very thick, real fiberglass hull was only scratched,
never actually dented or broken in any place in the hours and hours it
slammed up against the bridge pilings! When they finally got aboard her
after the storm, there was not enough water inside the boat during the
whole storm that its running bilge pumps couldn't handle. One window was
broken out and a couple of cushions had to be dried out, as was the carpet
in the main salon from the rain coming in.

Other than that, the boat was fine and is still tied, much better now I
suspect, in that same slip over there....(c;]