"Don Freeman" wrote in
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That sucks beyond words. What a beautiful boat too, probably built it
yourself which makes the pain even worse.

Yes, I built it a couple of years ago. A couple of months ago I brought it
in the basement for a sanding and revarnish job. While I had it there I
drilled 18 holes in the deck and installed some hardwood flush mount deck
fittings. The deck rigging was really the only thing I wanted to improve on
it. I painted the cockpit rim and inside the cockpit with a dark green,
replaced all the deck bungies and put in a dark green perimeter line. I put
on 3 coats of new varnish, the final touchup work done last week. When I
paddled it on Saturday it not only looked better than the day I launched it
but it was better outfitted. I was planning on bringing it with me to
Baltimore this weekend and considered just leaving in the car all week, but
ended up putting it on slings in the back yard Sunday night. At around
noon, on Monday it was broken in half. There are actually 12 strips
remaining the run continously from bow to stern without a break. The log
landed right in the middle cockpit where the check plates were. I pushed
the cheek plates through the hull and crushed the cockpit on both side to
below the water line. On one side the tear continous down the hull in a
semi circle ending at about the keel line. I *might* be repairable but the
biggest challenge would be the make it straight with the same amount of
rocker. I'd likely have to cut the deck completely off at the sheer line,
rebuild the strong back, and put the hull and deck shells back on the forms
before cutting out and replacing the broken strips. Starting from scratch
might save some in materials but the amount of work would almost be like
building another boat. That boat took me five months to build and that was
before I had a 2 year old son.