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You are correct about tenuous infrastructure. Age and rust were other factors.
Cover Craft
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Ouch! Maybe airbags and a high (but not too high) tide.
Tom K
Tom K
Musing from a long distance away, with information from just one photo, that does not stop me.
If there is a solid end to work from, can you use a front end loader / backhoe to slip it back on lofting one small section at a time. I am guessing the lifting may be easy, but of the whole assembly needs to move, then that is challenge. There could be need to disconnect sections and go for little pieces.
Good luck.
Ants
If there is a solid end to work from, can you use a front end loader / backhoe to slip it back on lofting one small section at a time. I am guessing the lifting may be easy, but of the whole assembly needs to move, then that is challenge. There could be need to disconnect sections and go for little pieces.
Good luck.
Ants
Though it has been a week since last Saturday's storm destroyed considerable infrastructure around Tomales Bay,
good news for Inverness YC is through amazing determination by Port Captain Milly, Commodore Seth, engineering specialist Bren, legal and insurance advocate Ben, and the rest of the crew, repairs will soon begin on repositioning the dislocated pier back on its pilings. None to soon, as IYC is one of the few locations on Tomales Bay allowing emergency responders access. Good news also is the Coastal Commission is fully onboard with repairs not to exceed original footprint.
I can't describe yet how the IYC pier will be repositioned other than to say, due to tide, it will happen at night, and not be cheap. If you'd like to be part of this amazing and wonderful group, whether you sail or not, you can join us at IYC and become a member.
You tell me, is this storm force or hurricane force at Marshall on the eastern shore of Tomales Bay a week ago? IMHO once the wind speed reaches 40, it's hard to tell. Spume is everywhere, anemometers are not calibrated, and you are crawling on hands and knees. https://www.threads.net/@thewestmarinfeed/post/DDkU6DHykrb/media.
good news for Inverness YC is through amazing determination by Port Captain Milly, Commodore Seth, engineering specialist Bren, legal and insurance advocate Ben, and the rest of the crew, repairs will soon begin on repositioning the dislocated pier back on its pilings. None to soon, as IYC is one of the few locations on Tomales Bay allowing emergency responders access. Good news also is the Coastal Commission is fully onboard with repairs not to exceed original footprint.
I can't describe yet how the IYC pier will be repositioned other than to say, due to tide, it will happen at night, and not be cheap. If you'd like to be part of this amazing and wonderful group, whether you sail or not, you can join us at IYC and become a member.
You tell me, is this storm force or hurricane force at Marshall on the eastern shore of Tomales Bay a week ago? IMHO once the wind speed reaches 40, it's hard to tell. Spume is everywhere, anemometers are not calibrated, and you are crawling on hands and knees. https://www.threads.net/@thewestmarinfeed/post/DDkU6DHykrb/media.
Intermission
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Sixty years ago my parents would occasionally come to the wharf when they were entertaining, or just wanted good seafood.
Fifty years ago, I killed a lot of time parked at the end while "fishing".
I didn't catch much, but it was pleasant enough to eat, drink, smoke, play cards, and occasionally check the bait, while people watching.
Twenty five years or longer ago, during a winter storm, my daughter and I were dining at the Dolphin, and when a large wave would come, the wharf would wiggle and my daughter would giggle. A little surreal, like feeling a skyscraper or the Golden Gate bridge sway in the wind, but I kept a brave face at dinner, and then was internally quite happy to get off the wharf after the meal.
What was a big project is now much bigger and farther off.
George Carlin was right when he said once Mother Earth is tired of us, she will shoo us off like a horse's tail to a fly..
Sure makes IYC's pier look easier.
Fifty years ago, I killed a lot of time parked at the end while "fishing".
I didn't catch much, but it was pleasant enough to eat, drink, smoke, play cards, and occasionally check the bait, while people watching.
Twenty five years or longer ago, during a winter storm, my daughter and I were dining at the Dolphin, and when a large wave would come, the wharf would wiggle and my daughter would giggle. A little surreal, like feeling a skyscraper or the Golden Gate bridge sway in the wind, but I kept a brave face at dinner, and then was internally quite happy to get off the wharf after the meal.
What was a big project is now much bigger and farther off.
George Carlin was right when he said once Mother Earth is tired of us, she will shoo us off like a horse's tail to a fly..
Sure makes IYC's pier look easier.
Here's the Santa Cruz Wharf bathrooms surfing ashore at Rivermouth this afternoon:
What is amazing to me here is that there was no wind event associated with this damage. It was just the size of the waves- wow !
Tom P.
m/v PACIFIC LOON
From my perspective, it’s a testimonial to the designer/builders of that structure that it hadn’t broken up completely before getting to shore. There’s news footage of it traveling along 85% submerged before making landfall.
Last evening before sunset I was standing on the Depot Hill cliffs, 90 feet above Capitola Village, which was evacuated and closed to entry. From my elevated position I could see swells cresting a mile offshore. Looking at a chart, the water depth a mile seaward in Soquel Cove is 50 feet. Go figure wave height vs. water depth. Just hope there was no small craft trying to cross the San Francisco Bar yesterday.
Sorry Milly. Not part of a buoy. Guess again. Hint: it shouldn't be in the water, nor on land.
Dazzler is correct! This is the foghorn that previously occupied the now defunct outer end of the Santa Cruz Wharf, pieces of which rest on SeaBright Beach in the background. I used this horn when paddling my kayak in thick fog to assist with audible navigation.
The Big Wave Surge Event at Santa Cruz Harbor 12/23/2024 caused a lot of damage, especially in the Upper Harbor, where docks and large yachts were ripped loose, and an unknown number of boats capsized or sunk. Swells to 30 feet and greater were the primary cause, coupled with the mal design of the Harbor Entrance open to the south and west, funneling waves into the Harbor
. Here is just a small pile of debris created:
. Here is just a small pile of debris created: