"I hope you are not suggesting that the wake lifted the boat over the top of the pilings."
No. All you have to do is lift it off the stringers (which would only take a 3' wake), it could then move fore or aft so all the weight is balanced on just one stringer then boat and lift are coming down. Up near Palm Coast is probably worse. Those docks are less than a foot off the water. When I bring anything other than an express through it's usually done at about 4 kts. to avoid doing exactly that or busting up docks.
__________________ "Some went down to the sea in ships."
It looks to me like the support for the lift has failed. The boat went down with it's cradle. The Iguana seems quite nonchalant about the whole situation.
The forward part of that lift could have failed on its own, but my money would be on a boat's wake lifting, then dropping the Bayliner. That looks like the dock had been in good shape. Not even rust on the nails and the pilings all look secure.
BTW K1W1, thought you might like these from my last trip down:
When I lived in Lauderdale the Sentinel ran a story saying there were 5 types of lizard in Florida, none indigenous and none bigger than about 5 inches. They may have missed a few.
__________________ "Some went down to the sea in ships."
I was at Rustys I think it is down on Griffin Road last year and there were couple of fine looking red specimens just across the water in that sort of boat storage yard there.
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