Mac on the rocks!!! (Pic works now...sorry!)

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Mac on the rocks!!! (Pic works now...sorry!)

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I was reading on up on the Northern Neck Forum on tidalfish.com and stumbed across this picture of what appears to be a 26x destroyed by Ernesto just a couple years back. Thought I'd share. Not sure where the hull went. You can clearly make out a rudder to the top left, fold up captain's seat, and mast support.

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I'm not getting any picture here???

Rick :) :macm:
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Dave it appears there's a login required to view the picture so it is not refering to our forum.
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BTW I emailed the OP on the other forum to try to get more pics :)
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Pic worked for me...thats the most smashed up Mac I've seen... You can see some bits of stringers/ballast tank in the upper right portion of the wreckage. Guess that qualifies as a total loss.
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Rocks 1, mac 0

wow.
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Ernesto was just a tropical depression when it hit the bay. Really caught a lot of people off guard. It caused over $20,000 in damage to my dad's retaining wall and stole a huge piece of his front yard at one house. I went to the second to inspect the damages right after the storm and found two yellow labs chasing what looked like menhaden in the front yard/lake... :!:
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Ernesto was a nasty storm that people wrote off as "just" a tropical storm. However, it was a long lasting storm and waves caused a lot of damage to moored boats.

Below is a link to damage friends of mine at RPBS experienced. Really bad.

http://rbps.org/ernesto_and_its_aftermath.htm
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Hello? I would like to order a 55 gallon drum of 5200 please....

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Kelly Hanson East wrote:Hello? I would like to order a 55 gallon drum of 5200 please....

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Hopefully it comes in the shape of a boat :P Yikes
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She still didn't sink...faithful to the very end. :cry:
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Image"They say that breakin' up is hard to do;
now I know, I know that it's true.
Don't say that this is the end.
Instead of breakin' up
I wish that we were makin' up again."

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