I went down to Bayou Chico again today. None of the several dozen boats way up in the yards have been taken off the shore. Boat U S is at the old Runyan Shipyard as Harvey told us. They have several dozen boats hauled out, sitting on the ground. They are using a large crane. Many of these boats are badly damaged. There were several trucks with flatbed trailers hauling boats off. There appeared to be about 50 boats in the water which had various states of damage--all rafted together. Vessel Assist had a small area at Pensacola Shipyard and about 6 boats on the hard. Progressive Insurance had a compound at Pensacola Shipyard and had a lot of motorcycles and ATVs, as well as a number of boats of all sizes on the hard. SeaTow had a mobile headquarters with half a dozen salvage vessels and are using a mobile crane to hoist the boats out. The travel lift was only being used to transport boats--not hauling. The slips near the travel lifts had been badly damaged. Some floating slips came off over the top of the 12 foot high pilings. Several boats were on the rocks right by the travel lift ramp. A number of 15" square reinforced concrete pilings were broken. About half a dozen boats had fallen off the jack stands at the ship yard and a crane was righting them. There were at least two dozen large boats which had been damaged on the hard. Bahia Mar is totally destroyed--and an example why you should not put a boat in a stack dry storage. Daybreak marina storage had been flooded, some outside boats on racks turned over and some boats swept into the parking lot, but the storage facility was intact. Harbor view dry storage seemed to be OK also. Contrary to what I had been told, things were in good order at Island Cove Marina--and it is possible that they may be selling fuel in a short time. There are still a dozen boats anchored in the bayou with no one having been to check on them. One of my friends has a 35 foot sailboat in his living room--and no one has been to check on it. The buildings at Pensacola Yacht club are intact and the club is open, but the docks are gone. I was told that the skipper of the 200 ton, 90 foot steel shrimp trawler "Our Mother" (Joe Patti fishing fleet) stayed aboard all during the storm. At about 1 AM, Our Mother and Captain Joe (a similar sized vessel) were side tied, broke loose from their dock. The skipper started the engine as the boats were drifting toward the Bayou Chico Bridge--and was able to maneuver both boats onto a bank and held them there until the waters subsided--he describes a "30 foot wall of water coming in the Bayou"--at the same time that the I 10 bridge was taken out. I doubt if it was really 30 feet, but I have heard enough reliable sources describe a single rapid rise in the water that I do believe that there was a surge effect similar to a tidal bore. One friend of mine had his boat totaled, got $50,000 and then bought back the boat for several thousand dollars from the insurance company on the spot. If you love boats, it is a very depressing sight! Bob Austin