Multihulls in Hurricane Beryl - News from Carriacou

[rwatson]

Its seems that some Catamarans experienced severe Aerodynamic upset.



The heavier Monohulls just got piled on top of each other.



A great coverage of one disaster spot, with real 1st person stories here

 

[philSweet]

There are mangroves and then there are mangroves. My old hurricane hole in the Florida Bay off Tarpon Basin had black mangroves with three-foot thick trunks and a 50' canopy. I tied up with 500' of 7/8 nylon and used 5/8 anchor lines for spring lines (38', 7 ton mono with 58' mast). The creek was about 40' wide and ten feet deep with room for 5 boats nose to tail. During the ten years I was there, we had over 100 days with 100 knot gusts or better, and more than 20 cat two or better hurricanes. Most of those 100 wind events were just random, unnamed, unforecast events, so everyone stayed pretty well prepared all the time. When you can climb 20 feet up into the mangroves and tie off to a foot thick branch and know it's not going under water in a 16' surge, mangroves work pretty good. I've had to clean a six-foot deep pile of debris off my boat, but it was safe and dry underneath, and nothing could come adrift.

 

[bajansailor]

There is a thread about Hurricane Beryl on the YBW Forum in England, and I contributed a post (#133 - scroll down a bit) on this page.
First hurricane possible for the Caribbean https://forums.ybw.com/threads/first-hurricane-possible-for-the-caribbean.610126/page-7

There was absolute carnage in the fishing harbour here in Barbados, even though the eye of Beryl passed about 80 miles south of the island - in my post above there are links to a couple of videos.
Also links to some 'before' and 'after' videos of the vessels that sought shelter in the mangroves of Tyrrell Bay in Carriacou in the Grenadines (the eye of Beryl passed over Carriacou )

 

[C. Dog]

Best wishes my friend.

Having had experience with cyclones when younger, I understand the power and resulting damage. This one was terrible in terms of damage from what I've seen; and I wish you all blessings for a speedy return to happiness and normality.