EFTA02674665.pdf

HOWE MARINE SURVEYS 6301 RED HOOK PLAZA, PMB SUITE 40 PHONE/FAX: ST THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS 00802-1306 Located at East End Boat Park, adjacent to Independent Boat Yard, St Thomas. VI In an effort to share tips and advices learned through many years of surveying damages on various vessels, Captain William Howe has prepared the following list of TIPS FOR MARINERS When preparing a vessel for the 3. If you are securing your sailboat approach of a tropical wave, depression, alongside other sailboats in a rafting or tropical storm or hurricane, be sure to marina setting, stagger the adjacent close all seacocks, except the cockpit sailboats so that the mast, spreaders and scupper seacocks. Leave the cockpit standing rigging of your boat will not scuppers open to allow rain water and engage the neighboring boats. sea spray to drain out of the cockpit. During a storm, the wind and waves will During one tropical storm, a large hit each boat at a different time and each sailboat was blown onto sotl sand in boat will respond and roll differently It' shoal water and would have suffered your masts are adjacent to one another. minimal damage However, since the there is a strong chance that they will galley and head sink seacocks were left catch on one another, causing unneeded open, seawater flooded the vessel while damage. Move your boat fore or all to the yacht was careened on its side. The keep the spars and rigging apan. interior was partially filled with seawater, causing damage to the engine, 4. Boat/US has done research showing that refrigeration, electrical systems and polyester (Dacron) dock lines resist cabinetry. It was an unnecessary loss. chafe much better than nylon In fact. they have conducted experiments that If you have the time when preparing for showed that nylon anchor or dock lines the arrival of a hurricane or tropical would melt when mounted within rubber storm. consider removing your vessel'k hose or tubing chafe gear!' Apparently. lifelines and the vertical pieces of your the friction between the strands of the two niece stanchions (base & vertical) stretchy nylon line, created so much heat from their bases along the gunwale of that the nylon line was able to part your sailboat. The recommendation from Boat 'ti is to If you are ashore in a sate haven, you use polyester lines at chafe points \lake will not need the lifelines and stanchions a short polyester pennant that passes to hold on to during the storm. If they over the bow chock or by the bobstay to are removed, that will keep them use between the bow anchor and the undamaged and they cannot engage anchor line. Use the nylon line where stanchions or lifelines on a neighboring you want to have the strength and the boat and cause unneeded damage. stretching behavior. Use the polyester line at the chafe points HOWE MARINE SURVEYS SIP`Mys :9ht, Captain William Howe Pfesident 8 Sonar Sonya CSA Measurer for LAVA Member. ABYC 6501 Red Hook Plaza Suite 40 -I T VI 00802.1306 'Fax Cell EFTA_R1_01956245 EFTA02674665