FW: IAN and AMEL stuff
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amelforme
Hello Willy and Karen. Ian hit us hard but not at full strength. We had steady breeze over 100 mph and gusts up to 130 mph. We are almost done cutting up all the trees that got destroyed. If I don’t hear another chain saw for twenty years, it will be too soon. I took the 2008 photos that show how our property looked at that time. Pretty much a peninsula with a forest of trees. While we have some palm trees that evolved an ability to weather these hurricanes, almost all of our deciduous trees are now gone. I hate palm trees. They require expensive annual maintenance and I think they are just plain ugly. The 2022 photos were taken the day after and all those trees have been cut up and removed. The one good tree photo is two ficus entwined with each other given to us as a two foot tall wedding present from an Amel customer Luis Paolo Marcolinni 32 years ago. It has been moved three times was blown into a salt water canal for a week by another hurricane, Wilma I think. Today it looks as good as it ever did and didn’t lose a leaf to Ian. It is a blessed tree for sure.
All in all, the house was pretty much spared other than cosmetics. It could have been worse than just the monumental pain in the ass we dealt with.
We now have electricity and some cell phone service but it is spotty at best. We have cable internet with goes on and off to its own rhythm.
Pretty much out of the dockage biz these days. I only represent Amel boats that are worth what the owners think they are which eliminates more than half of the boats I am offered. If I get a good one, it is usually sold the day I can first show it so Loggerhead works well as you cannot live aboard, even for one night on ‘the Fruit Isles’ Orange, Tangelo, Mandarin… Steve Leeds is retired but usually keeps a dock or two under his hat. Steve’s cell # is 954-608-1551.
I have some of the information you asked about regarding Amel production. I would prefer to talk about this and not write it down… Best to schedule something rather than playing phone tag.
All the best, Joel
JOEL F. POTTER – CRUISING YACHT SPECIALIST, LLC The Experienced AMEL Guy UNSURPASSED AMEL MARKETING EXPERIENCE AND PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE OFFICE: 954-462-5869 Cell: 954-812-2485
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Joel so glad you guys are okay sorry about the Trees. Cheers 🍻 On Oct 4, 2022, at 11:17 AM, amelforme <jfpottercys@...> wrote:
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Joel, Good to hear you and your house were spared the worst of that storm. I have been through a few Hurricanes (not on a boat) and Andrew was my 1st storm. I couldn't evacuate because I was part of the aftermath response. That's when I learned for future storms to heed the evacuation warnings and come back to what ever is left. It's good to hear you are doing well and are safe.
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