1995 300 Marlin

[naphco]

Somthing to keep an EYE on.

Bought my dream boat last summer
First boat i ever had surrvayed, Two Thumbs up except the 2 strokes. Planned on repowering with fourstrokes.
Didnt plan on the bow eye ripping through the hull durring a wind event
Turns out the wood backing rotted out under the backing plate which allowed the nuts to loosen up where one fell off the eyebolt compleetly and the other nut ripped through the hull with the rest of eye bolt, and sent my boat into a pier and suffered 20K in damage!
Keep an EYE on it!!!

 

[RAINMAKER]

Wind event? Wow sorry to here that Could you post more details please? How did you have the boat tied up? Was it on a mooring ball? :hmm

 

[freddy063]

when I'm on my mooring I use my forward bow cleats both sides, How do you connect to your bow eye its a long reach from the topside? Or am I wrong on my terms, my bow eye is where the trailer wire rope connects and holds it on the trailer at the bow. do you have any pictures?

 

[naphco]

Thanx for your patience
The wind was clocked at 85 mph
I am on a 450lb mushroom mooring with mooring ball, heavy duty chain
I had a 7/8 braided main line with a heavy duty spring clip attached to the bow eye and a 3/4 safty rope up to the port cleat on the bow
I am going with a Y bridal set up for both cleats this year

Forgot to mention after landing on the beach the the steep angle of the beach kept the stern too low and the waves opened one of the three 8" inspection holes in the engine well and swamped the bildge
only adding to repair costs
going with screw in hatches this year
A new pair of yamaha four stroke 250's, repairs are compleet including a "no wood" fully fiberglassed bow eye and i'm ready to go!