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    Posted: 03 Jan 14 at 8:18pm
Originally posted by Peaky

What are we looking at there, Russ? Are there meant to be some boats???

It's the club dinghy park, most have been moved to high ground, few stragglers looking sorry for themselves.  

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Who would have thunk a Laser13 was capable of flight...

I wouldn't like to try lifting it back off either...
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Our club looked like Tewkesbury.....With boats nudging the sea defences to get in to the harbour proper (we had a 0.8m surge which took the tide to level with the walls, waves overtopping).  Heart-warming the number of people who got to the club within half an hour of an emergency email and were prepared to get wet (in some cases very).  Heart-warming needed....it was a long time to be wading in waist deep water).  Damage would have been by trolley....but another few inches and some would have been off on the briny. Most well secured - issue is those missing trolley wheels as we could only drag them to the point where they beached.  So tonight hey're at risk.
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I wish the shpwright who chocked my 28 footer up had been aware of the potential problems. A few hours after the boat had been craned out a thunderstorm came through and down she went, cracking around the base of the keel and under the mast, and taking one of the props through the starboard bow. Amazingly, the ground was so soft (and the boat both light enough and tough enough) that she suffered no structural damage on the bilge she landed on.
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Sorry to hear that Chris
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At Hunts we have a rule that says your boat MUST be secured. This does not stop a surprising number of boats being left loose and not tied down (some owned by committee members, nothing like leading by example).

When big wind is forecast I always go and drop the bow of my boat down and check the neighboring boats to make sure they are secure. If they are not I will secure them down and have a polite word with the owner when I next see them. As neighbors don't change very often this is not usually an issue.

Our only recent casualty was a relatively new N12 that had been left in one of the access ways in the dinghy park. It blew over trolley and all.
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The force of the wind recently has been almost off the scale.  I rushed up to my boat park to rescue my Streaker on Dec 5.  It still had the mast up and it was rocking from side to side.  Even with two 12 stone men sitting on the sidedecks it was still moving, despite having the usual tie downs to concrete anchors. Solution was to take down the mast and fit heavy duty webbing and ratchets both to the tie downs and the trailer. 
I reckon in 10 years of Streaker sailing 50% of my claims have been boat park blow downs or flip overs on the way to launching. I'm a lot more careful now. One issue for individual clubs might be to make sure there is plenty of storage space for masts for dinghies which are not in comission.
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My insurance contains the condition      
The dinghy must be securely tied to the ground when left in a dinghy park.


I'm pretty sure that's standard enough. Mind you I suspect there may be a degree of dishonesty when it comes to claims. As for clubs without tie downs, I would have thought the word would get round the insurance companies and there would be trouble about payouts - and rightly so. I don't want my premiums to subsidise those who can't or won't take the trouble to secure their boats properly.
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The only boats I've left at the club have their masts down, and I'm prety sure my insurance will have a similar thing about being tied down, but many of the cases described on here for this thread and the one from before have stories of concrete ripped from the ground, or ropes being snapped by the pressure of flood water. One thing that could easily happen to my boats in a flood is that they simply float out from under the tie downs, as with no masts, the ropes simply go over the top, and there is no front pin to tie a painter to.
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Until yesterday morning we had a section at the end of our beach where a random selection of unloved boats collected, we had a Condor Cat, a couple of Lasers, a couple of Toppers, several canoes and some old iffy sailboards. Also a few tourists choose to leave their plastic sitapon canoe things chained up on the beach. Today we have a beach totally free of all boats, canoes and other asociated tat.
 
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