Registered: October 2007 Location: Fort Myers, FL Posts: 307
April-9-2008 8:09am
I was at the "TweenWaters Inn" on Captiva Island, FL when a guy pulled into the marina with a brand new Hinckley. He tied-up to the dock and he and his wife went to check in with the dockmaster. In less than 10 minutes he returned to find the aft, portside had just touched a piling and the dark finish on his hull was horribly scraped all the way into the glass buy barnacles on that post. You'd think for all that money they'd design a boat where the rubrail touches the piling before the hull?!
------------------------------ Tony Clark
Fort Myers, FL Brite Star Custom Yachts
Financial Legacy Investment Portfolios www.britestaryachts.com
Tad Yacht Designer
Registered: March 2002 Location: Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada Posts: 522
April-9-2008 10:50am
Rating: 10
"they'd design a boat where the rubrail touches the piling before the hull?!"
Oh my bad!
I guess this scrape was above the quarter guard? There is lots of shape back there, but that's what fenders are for....
------------------------------ "Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through." B. Dylan
blared ALFA
Registered: August 2005 Location: Houston-Izmir Posts: 1,916
April-9-2008 10:51am
Yea that would suck big time... Should have used some kind of protection ... If it was me.. I would just start crying.
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