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At South Park at the end of South Avenue, a placid moment on the Oriental Harbor Thursday afternoon.

A trawler, “Drifter” at Chris Fulcher’s dock to the right of South Park. A pecan tree in the town’s section of the waterfront is working here as a piling.

The steel sailboat, “Ulysses” was brought to the Town Dock Thursday with intentions of riding out the storm there, unattended. Town officials said it could not stay. Town Manager Bob Maxbauer says that “we’re not a port of safe refuge” and that the dock is “not rated or engineered for the storm” and conditions we are about to get.

One concern was that the boat could damage the Town Dock that hundreds of other boaters rely on throughout the year. Another was that in a powerful storm surge, the vessel could break through the railings at Town Dock and float in to Hodges Street, leaving the town with the problem of removing it. The boat was motored away Thursday night.

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Posted Friday August 26, 2011 by Melinda Penkava