Not PIGGY.

Comment by Ann and Neville Clement on April 27, 2014 at 7:15pm

Thomas,  You have my very deepest sympathy.  That is the saddest pic I have ever seen.  Made me cry.  Somehow, and some way, I do hope you can get yourself afloat again and make your dreams come true again.

Love,  Ann and Nev

Comment by Thomas Hembroff on April 27, 2014 at 10:09pm

I'm sorry Ann and Nev.  This is not PIGGY.  We came upon this wreck by chance several years ago when visiting Victoria. The bay it was moored in is totally exposed to southerly gales and I suspect a chaffed mooring line was to fault. We never did find out who owned it....a Tangaroa I believe. I am just amazed at how quickly the beach can bury something. 

Comment by Bob Bois on April 29, 2014 at 7:34am

Wow - I had just commented on your recent photo of PIGGY yesterday and I was shocked to see this photo. I thought it was PIGGY also - thanks for clarifying.

 

Comment by Ann and Neville Clement on April 29, 2014 at 10:40am

Chaffing gear on mooring lines is ESSENTIAL.  The first year I ever owned a boat, I saw a whole beach cluttered with dying boats after a storm caused them all to drag moorings or chafe through mooring lines.  I took that sad lesson to heart.  I saw about 20 boats dying on that rocky beach.  I have since seen several other beaches telling of the same story,  Moorings must be in sheltered locations.  Our own mooring here in Rhode Island has 3 to 1 chain length at hurricane height of water with heaviest chain at the bottom and graduating chain up to normal anchor chain at the water's surface.  All joins are swivels so there is no kinking.  Mooring is 600+ pound locomotive wheel sunk in deep mud located in ultra shelter area.  I will be sad to leave this mooring when we move to North Carolina next week.  Peace will be at a dock then.  But it is in a very sheltered area also.  Lots of chafe gear on mooring lines.  Lots of lines. 

 

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