Someone hit my boat in my wet slip.....

[Shookie]

My boat sits in a wet slip. Went out yesterday and as I climbed on back to remove the cover I saw 2 tears in my mooring cover. It’s less than a year old and I was fuming. The one tear didn’t look like a simple tear, and sure enough there was a chunk out of the fiberglass. Someone ran into my boat in my wet slip. I’m utterly amazed and beyond pissed. I have a 2 boat slip area, but there’s no boat beside me. All spring and summer, never have seen a boat there.

Asked the office guys if anyone reported it and they said no. Of course..... went back out on the lake today and my wife asked another guy if they heard anything. He said no and that he went a looked at the damage. Said it looked like a wake board hit the back, not a boat. So my wife asks him how our cover would be torn and that oh by the way, we don’t own a f’ing wakeboard. Rant over

 

[tdonoughue]

That sucks.

Fortunately, I have seen much worse (I'm sure you have, too). I would recommend clear Gorilla tape for the cover (inside and out) and some Spectrum gelcoat for the chip on the back. You will go good as new in no time.

 

[haknslash]

For that to be so low and in such a small area I wonder if a PWC bumped into your boat. That sucks man hate to see that but should be a easy spot to fix. Looks like they got your rub rail as well. You can fix that with the paste mentioned and nobody but you would ever know there was damage there.

 

[jEt_jAk]

This year at havasu a guy got his entire swim platform ripped off from another boat while docked.

 

[Cambo]

Looks like a hit from a tri toon any of those around you? You could measure the distance and probably match it up if he is in your marina

 

[Bluewater272]

I'd be going up and down your dock looking at other boats.

 

[Maccam26]

I would sow the cover

 

[S1LV3R4D0]

Ouch man, i would be f*$^*&ng pissed too. Amazing the lack of balls and respect people have. Just own up to your fck up and take care of it. How hard is that?!?

 

[zipper]

Does your marina have surveillance cameras? They all do around here. Some have web cameras, so you can watch your boat in it's slip from anywhere with a cell signal.

 

[Shookie]

Looks like a hit from a tri toon any of those around you? You could measure the distance and probably match it up if he is in your marina

I went and looked at some other boats near mine and didn't see anything noticeable. Pontoon was my first thought. Just can't figure out how someone got that close in the first place.

 

[Shookie]

I would sow the cover

Yeah, will try and do something to fix it. Not huge tears and not worth dumping another $700-800 for a new cover.

 

[Shookie]

There are signs saying they do, but I think it's BS. My wife talked to the guy who runs the place and while I'm not 100% sure if she asked, the guy didn't offer up to look at any footage. Biggest problem is I wasn't out on it for a month so that's a pretty big window..... travel and sickness really messed up my August.

 

[tdonoughue]

Yeah. Sometimes the juice is just not worth the squeeze. Would be hard to justify spending 10 hours tracking down this dirt bag instead of just spending 2 hours and <$100 to fix it. Especially since when you find it the dirt bag likely denies it (otherwise he would have been upright in the first place). Might make you feel better, but will be better for your ulcer and your boating season to fix it and move on.

 

[Shookie]

I have no experience with that Spectrum stuff. Will have to look into it. How do you match colors? I also have a nick on the bow and it's black there, not white.

 

[tdonoughue]

Best way is to call them (their website can be difficult to find the right year/color). But if you call them, they will tell you exactly the model number goo you need and fix you right up. Comes in a little bottle--perfect for those little nicks and cuts.

 

[sysinu]

You feel violated. That's the issue more than the damage. Happened to me a while back. My boat prevented another boat from sinking during a wind event and suffered about $18K in damages. Their insurance paid for it, but I felt completely helpless and violated when it happened.

The damage looks like an steel hull ran into you at slow speed... so I'd be on the lookout for a pontoon boat with scrapes halfway up the water line. Not that it helps you, unless they cop to running into your boat.


We were on our houseboat in the slip when the houseboat a few slips down from us was leaving (we were asleep when this started) and suddenly "BAM" loud noise and our boat shakes... went out to see them driving away. We called NPS, they were arrested, drunk - they got a felony DUI and felony hit and run charge. In this case, I did not feel violated... I felt vindicated, because drinking and boating don't mix if you're the operator.