Emergency Haul Out

My thanks to Tow-BoatUS and the good people at the yard for understanding the issues and the need to immediately haul and block my boat. They understood the EPA issues and knew I responded as fast as I possibly could from Sunday PM to Monday AM.

By 2PM the boat was on the hard. Unable to be in the water because of the oil that was somehow being forced from the saildrive the hard is the only place the boat can be to avoid fines. However, the thought that MAKO would have to be on the hard during the 2007 hurricane season filled us with dread.

With the boat on the hard and the awful destruction of the sail drive in front of all on land, the investigation and analysis began to understand why this boat was losing sail drives at the rate of one per year. So began the discussions with the dealer, Tartan and of course Yanmar.