A new home for Captain's Choice

Captains Cat · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: A new home for Captain's Choice

I'm tired of having to scrub the boat bottom so often so we've decided to build a covered boat lift. After much paperwork with the Dept of Nat Resources folks, we finally got the permit and found someone to do it, not an easy task! It'll be capable of handling a 27ft boat and will lift 8000lbs. Should have plenty of clearance for my Radome too. Here are the first few pictures of the start, I'll continue to post in my album as the job goes on!

A nice 95' pier but the boat has to stay in the salt water.

The beginning, Aug 13

The second day, Aug 14

The third day, Aug 15

JamesTXSD · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

Neat project! It will be interesting to see the progress and finished work. Thumbs Up

Best wishes,
Jim B.

Sea Angel · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject:

Hi Charlie;
Neat housing project! Looks like you will have room for some renters after your done. We just might have to come north , after rehab, and give it a Yankee Inspection. Don't forget to have extra ac power outlets.....

Now; just how high does the flood tides get up that there rivaa?

terraplane · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: cruise ships

Charlie,

I've notified Cunard that they might call you about docking their tenders in the new covered area...expect a transatlantic call soon.

Hope you are well and thriving.

tom

Captains Cat · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

Captains Cat · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: cruise ships

Butch · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Way to go Charlie!

Charlie... Now you are talking! A boat lift is just what the doc ordered on the Chesapeake. Looks like you are off to a good start. Based on the current construction work rate, when do you expect to have it finished? Question... is is possible or even practical to winter store the "Choice" on the lift while under the cover?
By the way... How is Sally doing? Ya have to take care to the first mate after all she was most likely one of the primary "regulatory" approvals you had to get to build the lift! Crook

I say this because my first mate regulates our check book. Cry

Have a good one! Butch

starcrafttom · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

charlie, how much ice do you get at your dock in the winter? When we lived and boated out of baltimore in the 70's we had to pullthe boat every winter because of the ice at the docks. One year the ice puched all the pilings out of the ground when the ice froze at low tide and was raised at high tide. pulled the dock and pilings right out . Was a dam mess.

thataway · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject:

Looking good. You are very wise to measure carefully for storm surge. Although I don't leave my Tom Cat in the lift during hurricanes, I do put the 18 foot Century on the lift, and two block it which is over 13 feet above the mean high water. Many of the boats which were in boat houses were "squashed" between the roof of the boat house and the rising storm surge, which was 11.6 feet at our house during Ivan. Some boats lost pilothouses, outboards were broken and windshields were destroyed. Of course one never does know what a storm surge can do, as in I 10 bridge, which is still not completely repaired...

We are looking foreward to seeing the "roof"--

iggy · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

Bob makes a great point (as we all expect). In 1996 we had a great flood in Portland. The Tualatin River crested at SEVENTEEN FEET over flood stage. There is a marker on one of the pilings at Tigard's city park, but most people don't notice it because it is so high in the air!

The water crested the sea wall in downtown Portland by a few inches; a few more inches would have been disastrous.

We volunteered to sand bag a nearby residential area that was in danger of being inundated, near where the Tualatin R flows into Lake Oswego. Several ski boats broke loose, but were otherwise unharmed. (While sandbagging we saw the roof of a boat house heading downriver toward the lake . . )

Boats that were tied to floating docks on pilings were fine (assuming the limit of the pilings was not reached). OTOH, boats that were 'protected' with roofs rose up to the roof, could go no further, filled with water, and sank at the dock, under the roof. An interesting lesson for us.

The comment about the ice lifting pilings out of the ground is rather sobering. Remember those TV ads some years ago? I don't remember the topic, but the punch line was someone almost getting zapped by lightning, followed by the narration - "Don't mess with Mother Nature!"

iggy