I just checked the wind histories from New Orleans Lakefront airport, Gulfport Airport, Keesler AFB, Pascagoula airport, Mobile and Pensacola airports. The highest gust reading I saw overnight was 58 at Mobile. Currently a 3.3 elevation in Lake Pontchartrain over normal tide. Only a very brief rain shower yesterday afternoon in New Orleans. I am sure our mayor has stopped sweating over failed drainage pumps.
Ed C&C 34 Briarpatch New Orleans LA On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 10:51 PM Jim Watts via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > 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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