{"id":29748,"date":"2018-01-18T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29748"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:22:25","slug":"after-irma-what-to-do-with-orphaned-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/after-irma-what-to-do-with-orphaned-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"After Irma, What to Do with Orphaned Boats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It has been four months since Hurricane Irma smashed into the Florida coast after thoroughly devastating islands in the Caribbean. Yet,\u00a0 harbors and marinas all around southern Florida are jammed with the wreckage of boats that remain unclaimed.\u00a0 Many were submerged and are covered with rotting marine growth. Many sailboats were dismasted and lie on their sides with masts and rigging draped over them. Check out Linda Robertson\u2019s report in the<\/em> Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Linda Robertson (Updated January 16, 2018 05:17 pm)<\/p>\n<p>A boat morgue sits on the waterfront in Coconut Grove. There lies the wreckage from Hurricane Irma, a few dozen victims of the storm\u2019s wrathful winds and surge.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels, mostly sailboats, lie naked on their sides, barnacles baking in the sun, awaiting demolition. They\u2019ve got holes in their hulls, cracks in their keels. Some were submerged and are caked in dried muck. Cabins filled with moldy cushions, broken dishes and flip flops make them look like they\u2019ve been ransacked. Broken masts and corroded engines lie on the ground. Only ghosts stand at the wheels.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a pretty sight, and it stinks. The stench of sewage, gasoline, fetid saltwater and rotting wood hangs in the air. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/coconut-grove\/article194945419.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been four months since Hurricane Irma smashed into the Florida coast after thoroughly devastating islands in the Caribbean. Yet,\u00a0 harbors and marinas all around southern Florida are jammed with the wreckage of boats that remain unclaimed.\u00a0 Many were submerged and are covered with rotting marine growth. Many sailboats were dismasted and lie on their sides with masts and rigging draped over them. Check out Linda Robertson\u2019s report in the Miami Herald. &nbsp; by Linda Robertson (Updated January 16, 2018 05:17 pm) A boat morgue sits on the waterfront in Coconut Grove. There lies the wreckage from Hurricane Irma, a few dozen victims of the storm\u2019s wrathful winds and surge. The vessels, mostly sailboats, lie naked on their sides, barnacles baking in the sun, awaiting demolition. They\u2019ve got holes in their hulls, cracks in their keels. Some were submerged and are caked in dried muck. Cabins filled with moldy cushions, broken dishes and flip flops make them look like they\u2019ve been ransacked. Broken masts and corroded engines lie on the ground. Only ghosts stand at the wheels. It\u2019s not a pretty sight, and it stinks. The stench of sewage, gasoline, fetid saltwater and rotting wood hangs in the air. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29749,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29748\/revisions\/29749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}