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Originally Posted by legend10
How bad was the wind actually Monday 5/16? We tied our 30 foot boat up as we always do before we left on Sunday and on Wednesday found the boat broad side of our dock with the bow banging up against it (damage to both the dock and the boat) and the stern rope completely untied from the dock's post. Could the wind really have done this?
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I've been here my whole life and lived here full-time for the past 5. If not the worst in my memory, it is in the top 3. While there have been many times that it's been as windy or worse, this time it was the sustained, never-ending, gusts that took a toll.
Yes, the wind could have done what you describe. I was checking our boats hourly, and I think if we hadn't retied one of them several times, we would have lost it. Being on the east end of a long reach, we had consistent 3-foot+ rollers coming at us for more than 2 days.