Tis the Season...Storms!

[hinmo]

Anybody on the East coast concerned about the storms coming up the East coast? I will be hauling my CP16 by this weekend. My mooring is wide open to SE and East winds....had 5 ft chop+ at the mooring today.

Going to blow North for the next few days..then east by Sunday

[rbh1515]

Glad I'm on Lake Michigan!
Rob

[Tom L.]

At least for now, Glad I'm in Florida.

Tom L.

[Nezz]

I am glad I am on little Bass Lake in the middle of Minnesota.

Nezz

[hinmo]

Here's a youtube clip (not mine) of exactly where my mooring is during Sandy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRO85Wsi65k&list=PLMAMV106nN3z6VadwBvyDydcweRRsMU-q&index=6

Today's waves were about 75% of that for 8 hrs

[Bob23]

Here in NJ we're watching the path of this storm. No time to pull Koinonia out so she's just gonna have to tough it out.

[wes]

Getting nervous in NC. Yesterday's track showed landfall at Ocracoke on the outer banks, but it's shifted a little bit eastward; fingers crossed that it will harass Bob up in NJ and not us . My 19 is in a slip in a creek about 20 miles up the Pamlico River, but boy when Fran came ashore in 1996 we learned that even being 150 miles from the coast was no protection.

Wes

[HeaveToo]

I got lucky and hauled my boat last week.  It was an early haul but I figured that it was a good time to do it because I expect to get busy in the next few months.

Either way, I am on a trailer in a field besides my parents' house.  I will keep an eye on things but I think she will ride it out there just fine.

[peterg]

Had the mighty Beagle 3 hauled and washed and placed in trailer yesterday. Stripped the boat at the yard on the Great Wicomico, and returned this morning with my wife and we lowered the mast, secured everything, and towed it twenty five miles to our home. Had a concrete pad poured ten days ago to erect a drive-through 13 x 28 boatshed, and put the Beagle on that. Hopefully, a big tree won't fall on her!  Was an early end to the season, but leaving it in the slip for this potential hurricane was not an option. Now I can start evaluating any further improvements to the boat- Bob23 has recommended that I install a 14 cubic foot refrigerator for his PBR when he comes to visit.........I'll get right on that!!

[Bob23]

That'd be 18 cu ft.   I decided to leave mine in at Long Key Marina and I'll keep a close watch on her. Even during Sandy, the tidal increase there was not as high as expected. If I have to sleep on the boat during the worst, I will. Not ready to end the season yet.

[fried fish]

BIG SIGH OF RELIEF in Southport NC!
Our 23 GoBeDo will get to stay in her slip. We are not worried...No More!
Pulling a sailboat is minor.
Just securing my wife's 85 kayaks sitting outside as they are projectiles during a storm.
All is good...all is wet
Fred

[HeaveToo]

I think that the East Coast dodged a bullet this time.  I am glad.

This is one of the times when it is really nice to be in a smaller trailerable boat.  I feel a lot better not having to go down to my marina and strip the boat to bare poles, double line everything, add a few fenders, and all the other preps.

My previous boat, the Catalina 30, went through two minor hurricanes.  The first one I rode the storm out in the slip.  It was actually kind of cool in a way.  The whole town lost power for a few days and there I was with hot water, plenty of power, and loving life.  The second storm I didn't ride it out and it caused one hell of a mess in my cabin because water got into my cabin through the companionway.  It got a lot of things wet and it sat there for a while causing a small mildew problem.  I worked like hell to get the mildew out of the boat but it was a constant battle for the rest of the time I had the boat.  I think that the boat didn't have enough ventilation.

[tmw]

Agree that a trailer boat makes storms easy. I only worry if a tree falls on the garage.

I went last night to retrieve a sunfish from a small boat lift, before high water floats it away for me, and move the grill and chairs off the deck. There is probably a bumper sticker about my other sailboat being a sunfish, which is only two feet shorter than my CP16.

Waves on the fairly well protected cove were pretty nice, and water was quite high. I can imagine a tropical storm would be impressive.  Glad we stayed safe.

[Bob23]

Although the water is high and wind gusts are in the 40's, Koinonia is resting comfortably and I've double lined everything. I think she likes the sound of the wind blowing through her rigging. Definitely going sailing this week!
Bob23

[hinmo]

Here in Taxachusetts, we're getting gusts to high 30's and will continue for a couple days. I am still on my mooring (with a few hundred others). Checked the bridles yesterday, some minor rubbing on one of the pennant lines where it hits the bowsprit wire (name?). I hope it will be okay.

I may try to get her out at high tide today, but its a bit of work in this wind......we'll see.

dont know how many sailing days left....weekends only at this point