bostonhatteras
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
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- 45' CONVERTIBLE-Series I (1968 - 1975)
Since it’s a slow rainy weekend in New England, I thought I’d share with you a story and some pictures that act all at once as confessional and success story. Around the beginning of September, summer of 22 the boat went up to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and despite my best attempts of timing the trip I arrived with a pretty strong tide running down river. The tide in the pisctaqua river can get up to 7 kn and around the edges there can be some pretty serious eddies so ebb or slack tide is definitely when you want to get there. As I said, I got there when the tide was running pretty good and now couple of this with my sheer laziness to not want to swap the lines from starboard side to port side. So thinking, I was all cool and a master I attempted to back against the current to a tee head dock, which was probably 20° off of the direction the water was running. Even coming Bow in most people can’t do it. They fuck up a whole bunch of times and then just leave without ever getting on the dock. I was getting the boating in position, but the tide was pulling me off the dock but at 7 kn it’s a fast moving event. After three or four attempts getting within 3-4 feet of the dock, not enough for the dockhand to grab a line off the gunnel since I was single-handed. I tried one more time. This time with four levers on the helm, I moved the port gear instead of stbd and gave it throttle. Instead of the boat becoming beam to the dock it backed into a stout dock on the corner of the transom it was loud. The audience was muted but watched it all. To make matters worse, stern line dropped in the water upon impact and got cut in two by the prop with it wrapped around the wheel. If it was three strand, it wouldn’t have snapped, but it was double braid and that saved the day because it just gave out like a fusible link would. I told the hand I was going to swap the lines and I came back bow in and landed on first try. No crying in boating. So I pretty much forgot about it for the weekend because there wasn’t anything I was going to do about it and brought the boat back back to port at the end of weekend.
The second pic, from spring 23, is a photo of the west system i put over the crack when I arrived back to my home dock and starting to cut out the damage with the die grinder. I ran the boat rest of 22 with the epoxy over the crack. In the spring of 23 waiting for a decent weather to paint outside, I started the repair. I took a foam mold of the port scupper and made a part to form the scupper opening.
The second pic, from spring 23, is a photo of the west system i put over the crack when I arrived back to my home dock and starting to cut out the damage with the die grinder. I ran the boat rest of 22 with the epoxy over the crack. In the spring of 23 waiting for a decent weather to paint outside, I started the repair. I took a foam mold of the port scupper and made a part to form the scupper opening.
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