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Hate to see that kind of damage, especially at the start of the season; but it would be intresting to know why some boats blew over and others near by didn't.
Wow! I never saw a keelboat blown off a trailer before, except in a hurricane or tornado. It looks like most of them had even been lashed to tie-down screws set in the ground.
This wind did not make the local news other than "some high gusts were recorded in the area". It's 50 miles East of our lake, we had no issues at Cheney. I have seen a couple of boats blow over at our lake years ago, but two years ago we were hit with 100 mgh and only cats and little boats blew around, of course it was in July so most were in the water. It looks like several of the toppled ones are water ballast boats.
Do you think that others in that yard will now routinely strap their boats to the trailer as well as the tie downs (which seemed to have failed on those that had them.)
Peggy has been after me to put tiedowns in the yard (side of house) where we keep JD, that set of pics will probably push me to the local hardware store.
Did you notice the irony on picture 457? That is a classic; a boat off its trailor next to a boat on a trailor. The boat on the trailor is called "Breezin."
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