It's our 35th anniversary and we're underway on our second cruise south. We're wondering what will break this cruise. And when.
Mixed weather today but actually got some unexpected sailing in. Motorsailing too, of course, but we didn't expect to put the sails up at all. Forecast for the next few days to a week is for unsettled weather. Not necessarily stormy, just gray and wet.
Today we got some other form of 'yuck'. Bugs. Some kind of flying ant. They just dropped out of the sky, after mating it would seem. Made a mess. Yuck.
The start of this cruise doesn't seem promising.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Storms
We survived Irene!
With all the pre-storm hype and all the actual damage done by Irene we did okay all things considered.
On Friday before the storm I moved Infinite Improbability up the Connecticut River to Hamburg Cove, Old Lyme, CT. I added anti-chafe rags to the anchor rode of Perfectly Normal and let out more scope but we could only protect one of our boats and, of course, chose our home.
Carol drove to my location and then picked up Heather who had to evacuate Brooklyn because of potential flooding. She evacuated the city to come out on a boat during a hurricane. Some might have questioned that wisdom.
Hamburg Cove is part of 8-mile River which is about 8 miles up the CT. River. It is also totally surrounded by land and big trees. About as protected as you can be.
We met two boats with friends aboard there and met new friends who were friends of the other two boat crews. We had a little party aboard our boat on Saturday and agreed to monitor our VHF radio on Sunday in mutual support should anything go amiss.
For us the storm only made us a little nervous, not scared. The wind was around 40 knots (50 mph) so we swung around a bit but it was not violent. The surge was between 4 and 6 feet so there was little danger of our mooring pulling out. The noise from the trees, however, was amazing. The loudest 'white noise' you could imagine.
As I mentioned, we survived.
On Monday after the storm we went back to Mystic and drove to the Old Lyme area and saw how much wind/rain damage was really done. Many trees and power lines down. Electricity was not restored for more than a week.
Other good news: Perfectly Normal survived just fine in Mystic and our house in Wallingford had no damage. Never even lost power. We just had branches and leaves to pick up.
Now if this luck lasts through our upcoming trip back down south for the winter it would be great! Not likely but GREAT!
Departure is scheduled for the third week of September.
With all the pre-storm hype and all the actual damage done by Irene we did okay all things considered.
On Friday before the storm I moved Infinite Improbability up the Connecticut River to Hamburg Cove, Old Lyme, CT. I added anti-chafe rags to the anchor rode of Perfectly Normal and let out more scope but we could only protect one of our boats and, of course, chose our home.
Carol drove to my location and then picked up Heather who had to evacuate Brooklyn because of potential flooding. She evacuated the city to come out on a boat during a hurricane. Some might have questioned that wisdom.
Hamburg Cove is part of 8-mile River which is about 8 miles up the CT. River. It is also totally surrounded by land and big trees. About as protected as you can be.
We met two boats with friends aboard there and met new friends who were friends of the other two boat crews. We had a little party aboard our boat on Saturday and agreed to monitor our VHF radio on Sunday in mutual support should anything go amiss.
For us the storm only made us a little nervous, not scared. The wind was around 40 knots (50 mph) so we swung around a bit but it was not violent. The surge was between 4 and 6 feet so there was little danger of our mooring pulling out. The noise from the trees, however, was amazing. The loudest 'white noise' you could imagine.
As I mentioned, we survived.
On Monday after the storm we went back to Mystic and drove to the Old Lyme area and saw how much wind/rain damage was really done. Many trees and power lines down. Electricity was not restored for more than a week.
Other good news: Perfectly Normal survived just fine in Mystic and our house in Wallingford had no damage. Never even lost power. We just had branches and leaves to pick up.
Now if this luck lasts through our upcoming trip back down south for the winter it would be great! Not likely but GREAT!
Departure is scheduled for the third week of September.
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