GRENADIAN YACHTING AND FISHING INDUSTRY ASSESS THE DAMAGES AFTER HURRICANE BERYL

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00:00Two fishermen shared accounts of their vessels colliding with a larger boat at the Caranage

00:06during the storm.

00:08One of them managed to salvage only the engine, while the other is now contemplating the daunting

00:14task of rebuilding his boat.

00:17This boat is the one who pushed it on the shore.

00:20That big blue and white one you see alongside the big steel boat over there.

00:23I know definitely they never went and fixed the boat.

00:26My boat was packed up, you see where this boat right here is now, that black one thing

00:31boat there.

00:32My boat was packed up right here.

00:34So that boat when it get away from over there, it come inside and it pushed my boat in the

00:38canal here.

00:39It was tied up onto my boat.

00:40The way it set me back, right back, the boat marshalled back, the boat salvaged my boat.

00:43I talked to those guys and they tell me that it's a disaster, they don't meddle about that.

00:47That's what they tell me yesterday.

00:48I got a call stating, oh your boat's sinking.

00:51So I came down the road, saw the guys was assisting me.

00:53I want to make sure that I moored down properly.

00:56So you know, to the best of my ability.

00:59I understand he was doing well, but one of those, I think this one, came and busted mooring

01:06line or whatever.

01:07They came colliding to the, so that's the end result.

01:10Attorney and boat owner Anselm Clowden was also among those significantly affected.

01:17His sailboat moored at the Porth Authority, was completely submerged by water, adding

01:23to the tally of losses suffered by the maritime community.

01:27I thought the Port Authority moored was sufficiently secured, but with those gale force winds and

01:36that wayward lady, with all that rain and wind and her bunching against the caranage,

01:50it may have affected her, there may have been a hole in the hull.

01:56Crystal Young from LTD Sailing and Yacht Brokerage reported substantial damage to four boats

02:03docked at Prickly Bay Marina in Lansapine.

02:07On that beach over there, there's three boats, four boats that are halfway sunken to the

02:11sand and they've got some major damage.

02:14And that was usually done by them hitting all the other boats to get there.

02:17I know of two of the owners and they've been contacted already.

02:20Amidst the tales of devastation, stories of resilience emerge.

02:25GBN spoke with an American couple visiting Grenada for the first time, who found refuge

02:32from the storm at the Calabash Hotel in Lansapine.

02:36They expressed relief at having weathered the hurricane safely amid the turmoil.

02:42The staff at the hotel were really fantastic.

02:44They stayed right until the end.

02:46They stayed calm.

02:47They were very well prepared.

02:49And the level of service and dedication that they showed was extremely professional.

02:53So yeah, we had a fairly easy ride of the storm.

02:57We were safe, tucked up indoors.

02:59We didn't have any power loss.

03:01Category four is a serious storm.

03:03But we arrived and we expected the storm to turn away, but it didn't.

03:07So we were fortunate to be at a location that was fortified.

03:13They rebuilt years ago for hurricane-strength storms and we just prayed and everything worked

03:18out.

03:19I think we just lucked out.

03:20The goal was on a two-week vacation, one week sailing, learning to sail, and then a week

03:25on the island.

03:27So hopefully by the time we come back from our sail, things will be cleaned up a little

03:31bit more.

03:32State of emergency may be relieved.

03:33As recovery efforts commence, the community is coming together to assess damages, initiate

03:40repairs and provide support to those impacted by this latest natural disaster.

03:47Reporting for GBN News, I'm Nisha Paul.

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