Matthew expected

[fried fish]

Hi guys,
Down here in the Carolinas we are paying attention to to the approaching storm.
Wednesday before all havoc breaks loose, we will pull our Compac 23 out of her slip for safe haven.
Aye yay yay yah!
Carumba!
Hopefully this is a dress rehearsal only.
Best of luck to all boaters on the coast.
Fred

[Bob23]

Fred: how did you fare in your visit from Mathew?
Bob23 in NJ...thankful he didn't decide to come up this far.

[fried fish]

Hi Bob,
We did mo Betta than expected.
We are on the Cape Fear region of the NC coast in Southport.
The agony was the building of the storm .
The stress and anxiety was big.
Yes it's coming ,no it's not.
We did the full drill non the less.
Because we could, we pulled out our 23 , dropped the mast to keep her safe.
We slept better.
She needs to go back in her slip soon.
We have a 400 year old live oak hugging and looming over our house.
All is good.
My wife has a kayak tour business with 75 boats.
All were lashed and put to bed.

Bob, I too am a general contractor .
We could trade some stories .....,.
Cheers!

[Bob23]

  While I was keeping a close eye on this pest from the south, I chose to keep Koinonia in the water, knowing if I pulled her early, that would be the end of the sailing season of 2016 for me!
  Yep, I bet we could exchange some good GC tales. I've always thought of writing a book about all the customers, subs, architects, etc that I've encountered over my still climbing 32 years in business. And to think that I still retain some semblance of sanity is amazing!!!
Bob  "The Builder"

[HeaveToo]

I am glad that you guys did okay.  I had put Saga on her trailer because I knew that it would be a while before I would get to her again.  Thankfully, she was already packed away and thankfully the hurricane stayed away from the Chesapeake Bay.

[deisher6]

Best place to ride out a hurricane, or a hurricane warning in North Carolina, is Honolulu!

However a special thanks to Wes for driving down to New Bern removing my mainsail, canvas, unplugging shore power, and doubling up the lines.

Thanks Wes.....

regards charlie

[Tim Gardner]

What Hurricane?

[Mas]

Ok, we feel somewhat responsible for Matthew staying out of the Chesapeake. The days before everyone was running around moving boats preparing.....we went sailing... wind was too good (not even related to Matthew). However we did feel like we should do something when the marina put out an APB about storm prep. Lines were doubled, some canvas packed up, unplugged and voila Mathew goes somewhere else.

Glad to hear most all fared well. It is playing havoc with some of our ICW travelers as there seems to be much debris floating around south of us.

[Citroen/Dave]

I had to travel to Orlando from Virginia on business. Airports were closed.  I took the I 75 route, a little further west of I 95.  I got my best gas mileage passing the storm west of St Augustine with an estimated 40 mph tail wind.  Studying sailing wind gave me the confidence to choose a great land route rather than cancel the trip. 

I could not believe all of the convoys of line-service trucks and tree company trucks from Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, and all over heading into the aftermath.  I would guess the number of trucks I saw exceeded 500. My hats off to all those gentlemen and women who headed into hardship to help those along the coast.

[breeze]

We had a lot of damage  to boats in Daytona Beach, about 1/3 of the sailboats in my marina lost there rigging, lots of toe rails chewed up.
The docks were torn up and a lot of broken pilings.
I felt very lucky only had some small scratches, and the rub rail is now thinner in three places on my 23D.
Hard to tie the for a 11ft surge, luckily only had about 6ft.
Things getting back to normal now just a lot of clean up.
Like to say Thanks to all the tree and power people that helped us
David