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\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nBeing a long weekend, meant that most marinas in the Parry Sound area were closed, or operating with minimum staff. \u00a0I made a few calls, and was referred to this person and that person. \u00a0In the middle of this process, my cell phone minutes began running out. \u00a0I had to call my wife and have her call the cell provider and top-up and register a credit card.\u00a0 Eventually I had arrangements in place to float the boat again, but they wouldn’t happen until that coming Tuesday. \u00a0It being only Saturday I had more problems.<\/p>\n
Fall on Georgian Bay is pretty notorious for bad storms. \u00a0Some of the most famous ship wrecks on the Great Lakes have occurred in the Fall. \u00a0This weekend unfortunately was not an exception. \u00a0Front lines shifted and lined up to cause successive storms to roll through. \u00a0Each storm having dramatic winds and lowering the temperature towards the icy side of things.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning and into the afternoon, the moderate North Easterly breeze shifted around to the West. \u00a0By the middle of the afternoon the winds had ramped up to Storm force, with sustained gusts of 45 Knots. \u00a0Little by little the waved action pushed and shifted the boat up onto its side and against the rock shoreline. \u00a0The outside going down and the inside climbing up.<\/p>\n
Come Sunday morning the weather had passed, it was clear and sunny with a light breeze out the North East again. \u00a0The boat was for the most part unharmed. \u00a0I was lucky in that our neighbours to the North of our cottage were up and volunteered to give me a boat ride into my marina in Parry Sound.<\/p>\n
This is where things continue to worsen. \u00a0For several days the boat stayed in the water. Had it been floated promptly minimal damage would have been done. \u00a0Another storm system came through on Tuesday night into Wednesday. \u00a0On Thursday I call the marina that I had hired to float my boat, as I hadn’t heard anything. \u00a0Turns out the marina (Frying Pan Island) had decided that they weren’t up to the job, but hadn’t phoned me. \u00a0Guess they were to embarrassed at this point, as they had assured me it wouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n
Things actually take an upturn at this point as I called Rick Zanuzzi of Canadian Contracting Services. \u00a0I told him my story, and he assured me that he’d look after it right away. \u00a0He pulled his crews off other sites in the area and had 2 boats, 1 with a small hull mounted crane in position within the hour. \u00a0They got it floated and started towards town. \u00a0On route they had to pause and put a crew member with a fire pump in the boat as it was taking on water so fast it was sinking. \u00a0With the successive storms and accompanying waves the aluminum hull had worn through on the rocks.<\/p>\n
He and his crew got it to my marina in Parry Sound, Glenn Burney where the staff were waiting for him. \u00a0They got the boat out of the water right away. \u00a0The marina staff promptly attached a fresh fuel tank and started the motor to clear any water and dry the engine. \u00a0Being a 2-stroke motor simply by doing this you may well \u00a0save your motor from a possible rebuild.<\/p>\n
Kudos to Canadian Contracting Services and Glenn Burney Marina<\/p>\n
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