CDs in the tsunami surge in Santa Cruz

[d1trout]

Fellow sailors, last Friday my 25D and her slipmate, a CD27, got hit hard by the tsunami surge in the SC harbor. You will find the YouTube videos interesting. Neither boat sustained really serious damage. I lost some toerail and a bunch of gelcoat to dock abrasion, but we are both dry below and floating on our lines. Compared to many others - 20 boats were sunk - we were very fortunate, even though we were in an area of maximum wave impact. Makes me happy to have a boat built like a tank!
The harbor is shut down for the week while the damage is repaired and the sunken boats removed. I actually think that having our two heavy, deep full keel boats next to each other on a single dock may have contributed to the dock being torn off and setting us adrift. I might add that BoatUS, with whom I am insured, called me Sat AM to ask if I had sustained damage and to say that if I had, they were standing by to receive my claim!! I was impressed. We shall see if the resolution of my claim is as expeditious as that initial contact!
Here are the links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuZi-SI0EY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIY6CYvlDmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgt8qBSZEn0

Dick Galland
Sailing around Monterey Bay

[M. R. Bober]

Soundings on-line had a part of the video. http://www.soundingsonline.com/news/dis ... ino-effect

I hope no one was hurt.

Mitchell Bober
Sunny Lancaster, (where everything is peaceful) VA

[Zeida]

Just looking at the video got me completely petrified, nauseated and speechless. I got very sad and it took quite a while for me to get my composure back. What despair to see one's boat in something like that.

[GLutzow]

Given our weather here in Florida it is for just these reasons that I am on a mooring rather than a dock.