Hope you come through this safe and sound!
James
Delaney
1976 C&C 38
Oriental, NC
On 10/22/2018 8:14 PM, Frederick G Street via CnC-List wrote:
Here’s a post from Wal Bryant on /Stella Blue/ (Landfall 38) in Mexico
(posted with his permission); he’s in the more direct path of Willa
right now:
And so it begins. Willa to the North, Vicente to the south. And me in
the middle. (I think that's a classic quote from Clint Eastwood's
'For a Fistful of Dollars.')
The worry is Willa. It's going to hit to the North, and with
anticlockwise rotation the wind and swell is going to come straight
from the Southwest. The Bay is wide open from that direction, and
yesterday Mike Michael Eric Danielson
<https://www.facebook.com/michaelericdanielson?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAPZO8bWPOEnH1pGrSEaO6HTCxzYMVAsKXr3P0XYzqFWAPOFsMyVuuQrRpAjY03SxMQ6dYiG_2BhruN&fref=mentions> at
PV Sailing said the swell forecast was for 20 foot swells. I've
sailed my boat through 20 foot seas, and used the EFF word a few
times. Having them hit shallow water and slam into the breakwater
will be something to watch. I think it's entirely possible that waves
will wash over the breakwater into the marina. The breakwater itself
is relatively new, and hasn't filled in with sand and sediment. When
there is surge outside, boats inside still move around. A lot.
So I spent today adding dock lines, and setting up spare dock lines,
and taping around hatches that have leaky gaskets, and making an
inventory of rope. I have more rope on this boat than is reasonable.
People laugh at me. But once, a couple of years ago, a barge broke
loose and I had 400 feet of rope. It came in handy.
As soon as I was done getting my lines and my backup lines ready, the
rain started. The hurricane is still two days off. This is just the
outer fringe.
Walking around this morning, I seemed to be the only one preparing. I
saw someone doing brightwork (varnishing teak.) I mentioned the
situation to someone else, and she said "We talked to Long-Timers and
they said it's no big deal." Well, I've been in Pacific Mexico for
nine years, and this is only the second time I've set up to get hit
by sh_t. And it's the first time I've pulled a couple of lines over
to the pilings two feet above the spring tide high water mark.
I've seen 50 with gusts to 70, and that was at anchor where the boat
was pointed into the wind. I'm really not worried about wind, I'm
worried about wind swell.
I think tomorrow a bunch of people will be running around in the rain
doing what I did this morning. I'll be inside the boat making sure my
bilge pumps are clear and the through hulls are closed and the last
minute details are done. Then I'll adjust the lines to move the boat
boat away from the dock, put on my Helly Hansen jacket and hope that
the people who said "It's nothing" were right and I was totally
wrong. I really hope that all I've done is give my spare dock lines a
good rinse.
Let’s wish him luck.
— Fred
Fred Street -- Minneapolis
S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/22/powerful-east-coast-storm-may-develop-friday-into-weekend/?utm_term=.a559c2294827
Yikes!
Joe
Coquina
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