Hurricane Sandy

[Ian McColgin]

The TV news has great reporting but for unvarnished, no big perspective but this is happening to me, and some photos you'll not see in the media, the WoodenBoat Forum has a number of threads on Sandy.

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...e-FrankenStorm

and

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...urricane-Sandy

For thoughts on the loss of Bounty:

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...urricane-Sandy

[Auspicious]

I spent the hurricane aboard well up Back Creek in Annapolis.

Of note is that comparing the reported wind at Thomas Point Light in the open Bay with what I saw aboard the shelter and protection of hills, trees, and buildings resulted in attenuation of nearly 20 kts on average.

Surge seems to have peaked at about three feet. Power outages and consequent Internet outages are driving people quite mad.

[benz]

Here in Newport, RI., we were spared too much distress. Winds in excess of 70 reported from a megayacht's masthead, but lower down there was a good lee in the harbor. Still it looked frightening enough whenever I popped out of the shelter of the boatshed where I work to check on my own boat, riding out her second hurricane on a 1200-lb mooring. By the way, rather than try using chafing gear through a hawsehole, I fashioned a dacron selvagee going from the bitts to just outside the hawsehole, then made a mooring fast to that with a huge shackle. I found that while a couple of strands of the selvagee showed light wear, it was for the most part in great shape. Anyone else tried this?

[marujo.sortudo]

Mimi Rose was unscathed in Port Washington, NY where 11 boats broke free from their moorings. We came close to marinas floating over their pilings here. Thankful for an oversized, well-maintained town mooring and taking the time to install lots of extra chafe gear before leaving the boat. Several of boats here apparently chafed through mooring pendants that came in contact with bow mounted anchors. Feeling lucky and thankful.