Katrina & my v20

[garbubba]

Been away from the board for a while, been kind of busy down here in south mississippi. :'(

I have a new house now, the old one is better called debris & I'm starting to get things straight,but here's the boat story.

As I always do for storms I took my old truck, car, utility trailer & lawn mower & my 1987 V20 up to Kiln mississippi about 12 miles north of I-10.

The day after the storm as we tried to make it home we stopped by the storage yard in the Kiln & I was amazed that my boat (& attached truck) had moved! :o Then the truth came out even way up north of I-10 there was four feet of water! I have since learned that it was the highest the water got anywhere. :(

Well the truck died (1991 pathfinder with 228k miles) and the little car died but was well insured, I got the mower going but the V20 was better than when I left it, all the leaves had blown out! Only problem is so did the forward hatch. I left the cushions at home & they are gone too but I never used them much. That front hatch is going to be a bugger, anybody ever built one? anybody have dimensions? I'm thinking starboard but I'd have to work out the dimensions & shape of the channel.

Any ideas? I'm about to have time to take care of such things.

Thanks,

Doug