treehugger
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Well on Sunday we had a wicked wind storm here in NE Ohio. Many trees down and alot of people without power. After work Monday morning I made a trip to the lake to check on my boat. As I walked down the path to the dock something didn't look right. Then I saw it, or what was left of it. The dock had broken apart releasing the back of the boat. This allowed it to swing around and have the stern take a beating on the rocky shorline. My brand new Honda 2HP was ripped off the stern and laying in the bottom of the boat, which is better than the bottom of the lake I guess. It seemed to have taken a good roughing up first. That leads to the stern. The bottom of the boat is pretty scratched up and dinged up. The rear edge below the self bailers is beat to death and there is a crack along the back where transome line is. The good side is it doesn't seem to be taking on water or if so it is very slowly. The motor got me to the marina to get it on the trailer and get it home, but it had a horrible vibration and was leaking oil. There was alot of damage to several othe docks and boats around mine. Some other docks are gone and I saw at least one boat that was still visible, but abviously resting on the bottom. Here are a couple of pics.