Saturday, March 22, 2008

BAD DAY







It is not that we are looking for them, but we seem to see a fair number of bad things that happen on the water. These pictures show a 105 foot Feadship that learned there was not enough water at the dock in Ft Lauderdale at low tide. She sat like this for at least thirty six hours, through at least one next high tide and was reportedly still unable to get off. Two tow boats drug her off and rushed her to a boat works facility.



Charmed has bumped the bottom for sure. We have bumped over, and we have had to back up and go a different way. We have thankfully not been aground hard such that we needed assistance or such that we strained anything except nerves.



We have unlimited tow insurance. Even though our choice of tow service covers us in all waters, we think about backing up our one policy with the one from the other guys. When aground, we think it is important to get help from the nearest, most responsive service.

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