CLEVELAND -- Superstorm Sandy hit the boating community in the Cleveland area hard. The U.S. Coast Guard tells WKYC a total of 36 vessels sank and another 19 broke away from their docks because of the storm.
In addition to that, another two boats are unaccounted for and many more sustained damage. Thirty of the vessels that sank went under at the Edgewater Marina in Edgewater Park.
Scott Kroehle's boat was a just one of those boats.
"It's rough. I got it a couple months ago, actually, and I've been riding it every chance I had," said Kroehle.
All that's visible of his boat is the mast. Even still, the hurricane Katrina survivor was optimistic.
"I saw people lose everything, their lives... it [his boat] was just for fun."
For Captain Vitas Kijauskas, time spent on Lake Erie is anything but a leisurely pastime. It's how he earns his living. Monday night he almost lost it all, at the force of a storm, few say they've ever seen before.
"I tied the boats up as good as I can over there. I just thought it was an endless cause," said Kijauskas, who rode the storm out at the wall that he used to tie his two head boats to.
"It was nothing but might to hold those boats up to the wall."
Both vessels docked at Wildwood made it through the storm. Back at Edgewater Marina, boat owners were not permitted to access their boats after the storm kicked up for safety reasons.
"It would've been so easy to have been swept overboard. We were very fortunate that nobody, we didn't lose anybody in the water," said Michael Hill.
No word yet on how much the storm has cost boaters in damage.
WKYC-TV
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