Day 142 – Fenced

142/365 (May 22, 2010) – A friend was in town for a meeting and we managed to hook up for brunch down in Horseshoe Bay while he waited for the ferry. Unfortunately, when we went down to check on our boat we discovered that our boat and our neighbours had made contact at some point in the past two weeks and we suffered some significant surface damage on the hull. No one can prove whose fault it is, although the fact that they have brand new lines on leads me to believe that during the storms of the past two weeks their lines either were not tied properly or they stretched more than they realized new nylon lines would – when I said to her that nylons stretches when wet and she said “really?”.

I know everything was fine two weeks ago since we were down at the boat and I was surveying the air intake vent since it had already been damaged in what looked like a poor docking job by the women at some point last year. We had planned to replace it this weekend, at that point, there was not other damage to the port side of the boat. We don’t think they are very good at handling it. But it is irritating that we have now been damaged twice and we are certain it was their fault both times. But they haven’t taken responsibility.

However, can’t prove anything so we will have to deal with the damage ourselves. So, went to Troll’s pub and sat on the patio for a beer to mull it over. Now we need to find someone to repair the gel coat, and the damage isn’t great enough that we want to involve insurance.

What a piss off , but at least it is not structural, just superficial.