Just gonna leave this here, re: MATTHEW

Started by Captain Smollett, October 05, 2016, 09:35:23 PM

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CapnK

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OK, so who said - and I know some of you did, because *I* would have :) , and knew that as I wrote about the wind speed:

"100 mph+? No way. He's exaggerating; it just always SEEMS stronger than it actually was, so it was probably only 70 or 75mph there..."

Well, would you believe...

NOAA? (Pending confirmation, I misread the URL...)

:D

So, we won the GA/SC Coast High Wind Contest. A dubious honor, at best.
Wish we weren't even in it, though...
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Tim

Glad you all faired well. I guess now I can say "no photos it didn't happen"  ;) ::) ;D
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CapnK

Not pics, but some video shot during the storm backside by another sailor who was tied up on Front Street. It's FB video, no way to embed it, but maybe you can see it at this link:

https://www.facebook.com/Captaindavewallace/videos/1210235982382835/
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Jim_ME

Yes, good to hear that you got through it okay, Kurt. Nice improvised jury rig on your shroud.  :)

Now, am concerned about John and family with the reports of ongoing flooding in Eastern North Carolina...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/us/weather-matthew/index.html

Hope that you all are doing well.

Captain Smollett

Quote from: Jim_ME on October 12, 2016, 02:34:07 PM
Yes, good to hear that you got through it okay, Kurt. Nice improvised jury rig on your shroud.  :)

Now, am concerned about John and family with the reports of ongoing flooding in Eastern North Carolina...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/us/weather-matthew/index.html

Hope that you all are doing well.

Appreciate the concern. We are well here.  Some local spots still with road closures (enough that public schools have been closed for the entire week).

Lots of water to move through here yet, but I think we'll be ok.  Was talking to a dude I know that lives on the Trent River about 10-ish mi up from New Bern yesterday, and he said the river is still rising at his place.

S/V Gaelic Sea
Alberg 30
North Carolina

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  -Mark Twain

Jim_ME

Quote from: Captain Smollett on October 12, 2016, 03:15:30 PM
Appreciate the concern. We are well here. 
Glad to hear it. Thanks for the update. :)

maxiSwede

Great to know you all farled well in that storm.

My cpngratulations to Kurt for the clever jury repair of the shroud!! Really shrewd for a shroud....when. I never was much for that kind of toenails, but now I am a convert!  Will go out an d do missionary duty on it...  ;D 8) :D

Just kidding, but all those points to tie things down is GrEAT,!

Cyclone Sean coming up her in SoAc now, so wil be heading to windward a few weeks to visit the Tuamotus on the way to theMarquesas. That mArquesas has never had a cyclone, since it's 800 miles E and N of here Lat. about 6-8 S
Cheers, Magnus, drifting around....
s/v  Nanna
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and
H-boat 26' - Sweden

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Frank

Have fun 'drifting around' Magnus 😄😄😄

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