09/17/2008, Baytown
We feel fairly lucky to have gotten by with some cleat damage and some scratches in the Awlgrip. Many of the light weight cruising boats with unprotected rudders will spend some time in the boat yard before they go back into the water.
We are expecting to get dropped directly back into water. Hopefully, within a month.
We are not out the woods yet. It may be several weeks before the boats can be moved. During that time the public is clammoring to get in and sight-see the disaster area, and then there are the looters. The salvage guys have already come by to try to swindle the boat owners. Some of the liveaboard owners have armed themselves with shotguns and are chasing people away. The police drive by occasionally, but they have too many other things to do, so they have not said no to the guns, but they don't want them pointed at anyone.
Then there are the insurance companies. When they bring in their own crews to dig out their insured's boats, they are likely to cause collateral damage on other boats.
So round #2 of the big fight with Ike begins. We got bumped and bruised in the 1st round. The more time that we can be in Baytown to watch our boat the more likely we will continue to have a boat worth keeping.
Like many boaters for cost reasons we keep minimal insurance. Round two is going to hurt.
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09/17/2008, Baytown
Hello Texas is sitting in her slip with the lines still tied.
Due to her shallow keel, she is not leaning too far over. However, it may not seem so from the picture, but the bow of the boat is tilted about 20 degrees down hill.
Because the scuppers in the cockpit can't handle that angle without allowing rain water to leak in through an engine room hatch. With HT's shallow bilge, all of the water ran into the bow of the boat. The bilge pump was running like crazy, but couldn't pump anything out. So, we had to pump a lot of fresh water out of the boat (no salt in the water).
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09/17/2008, Baytown
Ike won the 1st round.
Hello Texas is aground. She stayed securely tied to the docks at Bayland Marina in Baytown TX, however, the storm surge caused the entire marina to float off of the top of the piers. So, the boats ended up about 1/4 mile from where they belonged and about 400 feet from water deep enough to float them.
HelloTexas is the boat in the center of the red circle in the picture.
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