Hopefully the damage to your boat and dock won’t be too extensive. Our club requires boats over about 24 ft to vacate their slip when a hurricane warning is issued for the county. Most anchor in a nearby fairly wide and deep (in NC deep is 7 ft or more!) creek that our marina abuts. Some get hauled out at local boatyards. Either way, the dock has a better chance of surviving without the boats. Of course, anchoring is also a crap shoot since other’s boats can drag and take another ashore or aground. I anchored Water Phantom before Iasias came thru. Since I was traveling for the next several weeks (during the peak hurricane season) I left her there (saw her yesterday!) with 2 anchors (~60 lb and 30 lb danforths). My plan is to leave her there until early October. Currently she shares the creek with only 1 other boat. I took the headsail down and wrapped, secured mainsail and boom (good) and turned everything but the ACR off (bad) since it was ‘new’ to me and as I left the boat didn’t realize that it drew some amps(about 15 mA)—hopefully after 10 weeks I will still have some battery power left! Good luck to all in any hurricane’s path—no matter how well you prepare your boat, ultimately it comes down to luck and your insurance. Unfortunately, neither life nor anchoring is risk free. Charlie NelsonWater Phantom
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com> wrote: As many of you know, Touche' is in Pensacola near the landfall of Hurricane Sally. Early report from a pier neighbor is Touche' is "okay". Torn headsail and maybe some canvas damage. Touche's slip is on a Category 3 rated floating pier. I will head to the boat as soon as I can to assess any damage. Local authorities may be barring entry to non-residents, I don't know yet. Which brings me to the "vagaries" thing. I drove home from a week in the Smokies and spent Sunday night on Touche'. I looked at all the models Monday morning which said Sally was going to Louisiana or Mississippi. I did some moderate storm preparations and drove home to Louisiana to secure my house. This storm took one of the most surprising turns I've ever seen. Up until about 24-36 hours prior to landfall, the models were still forecasting a landfall along the Mississippi coast. Then it slowed down and shifted dramatically east. My lesson from this is if there is the slightest chance of a direct or near hit, do a FULL storm preparation. Had I done that, I might have had no or very little damage. The tall ship La Nina, a replica of Columbus' ship, was docked in Palafox Pier Marina in downtown Pensacola. That marina was essentially destroyed. There's another storm developing in the Bay of Campeche. Early model runs point it at Louisiana. Dang. More as I hear it. -- Dennis C.Touche' 35-1 #83Mandeville, LA_______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
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