Tag: disaster

Fluidesign: Battered, but unbowed

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I went and removed the tree from my poor boat.  Then I gently removed the cover.  I tried to massage it back into a boat like shape.  With a loud pop, it started to look like a boat again.

A ton of damage, but at least it looks like a boat.  Remarkable resilience really.

 

The before picture

2016-04-08 17.40.10The after pictures

So, the fine folks from Fluidesign will be picking it up on April 20th and taking a shot at repairing it.  If they succeed, I now have a great boat name “Phoenix”, or maybe the french version “Fenix”.

 

That will leave a mark.

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I went to pick up my boat Friday evening to go rowing out in Worcester and I was greeted by this site.

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Yup, that’s a really big tree branch that has destroyed the bow of my boat.  We had a very windy and rainy day on Thursday, I assume the branch came down then and no one noticed during the day Friday.  I won’t be rowing that boat any time soon.  With all my talk about grit and resilience…this was a huge blow.  I cried when I saw it.

Now I get to have many conversations with insurance agents and see what happens.