Good luck, you guys. You have had repeated beatings this year. Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC
On 7 October 2017 at 19:56, Bob Caughran via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: > 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. 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