Hi Everyone,
Thanks again for the kind words. I'm humbled.
Attached are links to two short videos we uploaded to youtube tonight. They are raw and unedited. Sound quality is poor. Lots of wind and my iphone was in a soft clear pouch due to the rain. We shot the short video on Thursday while the surge was rising. It's about 5' in the video and would max at 9'-13'. I have not seen the official figure yet. I took the video at 1400 on Thursday, a full 24 hours before landfall. You can see all the doubled lines and chafing guards on the Far Reach. We were in a wide slip. Note the current. That is water rushing into Hancock Creek on the Neuse River. The wind is out of the NNE. You can see the large 30,000 lb Tyanna 42 Dog Star to our left. The boat pulled in the day before. The lines were old and too tight. I had to slack them as I knew they did not have enough length to accommodate the surge. I also took my spinnaker halyard down and used it to double their stern lines on both sides. I was trying to protect the Far Reach. The stern line on the starboard quarter of Dog Star eventually parted. Dog Star made it through with minimal damage I think. She trapped a 40 long log on her starboard side under her spring line so perhaps she kept it from hitting our boat. Even though the wind is slightly from the right in the video look at the current coming in from the left. That's was driving the boat to the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgpszIY8vM
The second video was taken Friday morning 14 Sept 2018 at about 1150. The surge is on its way back down. It's a little higher than when I shot the first video. Lots of wind noise. I had not yet been out to the end of B Dock, which is where the Far Reach is located. That big fin keel sail boat, Seaquel, is sitting astride our dock. After I shot the video I crawled under the forward edge of her keel and made my way out to the end of the dock (I wore my life jacket and stripped off my foul wx gear and shoes in case I got driven off the dock into the water) using the safety line we rigged the day before. Once there, I took in some slack in the dock lines of the Far Reach and Dog Star too. I also lassoed and secured a few lose boats on B dock and generally did what I could. You probably can't see it in the video but the safety line I rigged the day before that runs all the way down B dock is around the back edge of Seaquels rudder and I think it trapped the boat and keep it from drifting further on the high part surge. As soon as we could we began working down securing boat and pulling them off of each other and the pilings.
Also, the boat with the billowing mainsail is not Ben Grant's boat Zig Zag like I mentioned in the video. It's a Catalina 32? that started out on the other side of the B Dock. It broke all it's dock lines, floated over the top of B dock, and came down in the slip with Ben's boat--a very nice Pearson named Zig Zag. Ben's boat was damaged but not too bad. He worked hard to prep his boat and I believe had it not been for that lose Catalina, Zig Zag would have made it through undamaged. The black hulled boat--I called it a Freedome 27 in the video but I think it's a 25--was found about 300 meters away in the trees beyond where you see the blue 34 footer standing up right on its winged keel near the boat ramp. Out of about 25 boats in the marina, three were sunk (all over 34') five were driven up on land or on top of the docks, one had her stern up on the dock, one was swept away into the trees, and all were damaged except the Far Reach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2UpBH_q0M4&t=9s
There is just no substitute for prepping your boat and your neighbors, all of them, prepping their boats as if losing them would be their ruin. Then, as mentioned before, you need some luck.
Perhaps even more than a little 
