Thanks Dennis. Just got word that there's 76 boats in the cove now including the biloxi schooners so I suspect we picked the right spot. Touché going to get rocked from the way it looks too. Fingers crossed for all boats. Should have word early tomorrow on Beemers fate.
Bob Caughran Beemer, 29mkll Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2017, at 21:28, Dennis C. via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Bob, was wondering about Beemer. Beemer is probably the most exposed boat on > the list. Hope it weathers the storm OK. Let us know. > > As I was driving to Pensacola I saw a couple of shrimpers up the Biloxi > backwaters by one of the I-10 bridges. > > Many marinas on the coast boot out their tenants. As I was doing storm prep > on Touche' Friday, a Catalina came into the slip next to me. The regular > tenant was hauled out. The Catalina had just gotten booted from Palafox > Pier, the most expensive, by far, marina in the Pensacola area. Palafox Pier > has floating piers but is directly on Pensacola Bay. The Catalina owner was > not happy. > > This is what happened to Palafox Pier after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. > > http://www.pnj.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2015/09/15/hurricane-ivan-anniversary/72347546/ > > Palafox Pier has a LOT of big boats in it. Where does one take a 60+ foot > motoryacht when it's in the only marina with large slips within 20 miles? > Some boatyards offer pre-paid storm haul outs. Or I guess one heads to The > Wharf in Orange Beach. That's a 25 mile run. > > Fairly quiet here in Baton Rouge tonight. Nate has made landfall on the > Delta and will shortly make a second landfall on the Mississippi Coast. > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > >> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Bob Caughran via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> So here's how my last 3 days have gone. On Thursday a fellow sailor from my >> marina in Biloxi called to let me know they were considering closing the >> marina for Nate. I packed up my car and headed down to Biloxi yesterday >> morning. Sunshine, 82 degrees and 12-15 knots from the east. I arrive to >> find three sailing buddies prepping their boats and waiting for me to lead >> them to the hurricane hole none of us have been to before. >> I add five gallons of fuel to Beemer, C&C29mkII, the harbor master helps us >> get off the docks and off we go at 1:30PM. It's a six to seven mile trek >> into biloxi bay and up the biloxi river. >> Two miles into the excursion going under the I110 bridge, I hear a different >> sound from the exhaust. I look down behind and see no water coming from the >> exhaust. I turn on the autopilot and run down and check the front of the >> engine to find the belt and pully laying under the engine. The hub of the >> pully still on the water pump. >> No overtemp alarm or light. Secondary cooling apparently keeping the temps >> from alarming. A mile later, bilge pump starts firing off. Back down to >> investigate. Hot water pressure release going off. >> Time to power down and toss line to friends boat to continue under toe. >> Now as I said earlier, none of us have ever been to these protected waters. >> We find one cove and one sailboat attempts to enter. 20' 17' 5' turn >> around.. As we approach the I10 bridge (too low for us to go under) we spot >> a secluded cove with two sailboats inside. We go inside and 20' depths >> throughout. Three boats raft up setting three anchors. Lash to each other >> and seven lines going to trees ashore. >> Although you never feel you're secure enough to leave her, we jump in the >> dink at 12:30AM and motor to the pick up point where one of the wives >> returns us to the marina to get our cars. Done and exhausted at 2AM. >> This morning, get up, off to the chandlery, no pully. Ok. West marine, no >> pully but they suggest Tractor Supply Company. Sure enough they got it. Yeah. >> Jump in car and haul butt up to Hattiesburg to hole myself up till Nate >> passes thru. >> If the marina opens on Monday we will head back get the boats, if they're >> still floating, and head back to the marina. >> Special note: if the marina call for evacuation and you do not evacuate, >> they will sink your boat in the slip. >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> The bills have started coming in for the year 2018 and have gone up again.. >> October will be our fund raising month. Please consider sending a small >> contribution to help keep this list running. Use PayPal to send >> contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >> >> All contributions are greatly appreciated! > > _______________________________________________ > > The bills have started coming in for the year 2018 and have gone up again. > October will be our fund raising month. Please consider sending a small > contribution to help keep this list running. Use PayPal to send contribution > -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All contributions are greatly appreciated!
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