Tighten everything down including your self. Good luck in weathering the "no
big deal" storm. This time it might beJim Schwartz38 lfSEA YA!Washington nc
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-------- Original message --------From: Frederick G Street via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 10/22/18 8:14 PM (GMT-05:00) To: David via
CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net>,
Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com>, Brett Crocker <brett.croc...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C vs. Wilma :(
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 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> wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/22/powerful-east-coast-storm-may-develop-friday-into-weekend/?utm_term=.a559c2294827
Yikes! JoeCoquina
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