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Oriental’s Marinas > Whittaker Pointe Marina

Whittaker Pointe Marina is at the end of the Whittaker Creek channel coming in from the Neuse River. With some 50 slips, it offers both slip rental and sales, plus transient dockage. Most boats left for the storm – there were 5 in slips for Irene.

The view from the club house.

The force of the wind and water jammed a picnic table in to the bulkhead where it remained on Sunday.

The wooden Chris Craft, “Journey” sank in Irene. Dockmaster Ashley Irwin says its docklines broke.

Nearby resident Manfred Rott took a walk out on the docks Sunday night and paused to consider what happened to the motor vessel, “Journey”.

An unsettling outline, the sailboat’s submerged pulpit and lifelines offering up the only semblence of sailboat shape. The boat is a 36’ Pearson pilothouse. Dockmaster Ashley Irwin says it sank due to a broken plastic thru hull coming from the cockpit drain.

Tuesday the boat was raised. Dockmaster Ashely Irwin explained “It was Henry’s idea on how to get the boat up.” Bobby Prescott was called in and they “raised the stern” so the water could run forward.

Back afloat, and bound to Sailcraft for repairs

A finger pier that lifted. Others, along the dock facing out to the river, were not in place Sunday.

The view from the docks looking back at the Whittaker Pointe Marina clubhouse.

The clubhouse at Whittaker Pointe got through Irene with no flooding or damage. The space underneath provided a place to get down the business of cleaning up after Irene. Here, some of the components of the electrical boxes from the docks.

While there were some pilings and finger piers damaged, the concrete “hog slat” construction of the docks withstood the hurricane.

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Posted Thursday September 1, 2011 by Keith N. Smith