Salty Dawg Rally getting hammered
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I've been following some folks I met a few months back on a Cal 33 that are doing the Salty Dawg. Sounds as though they had some rough weather but it is calming down a bit. Here is a link to their blog.
http://brisaadventure.wordpress.com/
http://brisaadventure.wordpress.com/
Some bigger boats getting thrashed out there.
There again, it's not called 'The Graveyard of The Atlantic' for the entertainment value of it..
There again, it's not called 'The Graveyard of The Atlantic' for the entertainment value of it..
Have been following as well. I met the crew of Somewhere couple years back.
Looks like a Catalina lost the rudder and waiting for a tow to mainland..... not fun.
Another, dismasted and heading in under their own power. Another taking on water and crew rescued.... someone else broke an arm, but stayed on board.
Also, appears another cold front approaching and organizers reccomending heading to Bermuda if above a "safe zone" line.
http://saltydawgrally.org/category/2013-fall-rally-yacht-logs/
Looks like a Catalina lost the rudder and waiting for a tow to mainland..... not fun.
Another, dismasted and heading in under their own power. Another taking on water and crew rescued.... someone else broke an arm, but stayed on board.
Also, appears another cold front approaching and organizers reccomending heading to Bermuda if above a "safe zone" line.
http://saltydawgrally.org/category/2013-fall-rally-yacht-logs/
Not sure who the fellow with the arm is, but M&M are in my sailing club, so maybe I know him?
From the CG report
In a fourth case, crewmembers aboard the sailboat Brave Heart, located approximately 50 miles southeast of Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., contacted Sector North Carolina watchstanders, reporting a 67-year-old man aboard had a arm injury. -
Pretty sure that is Mike. He and Mary are the complete crew, and have done this run before. Still trying to get details, but hopefully they made it into Morehead City and to a hospital.
From an SOS menber just now:
"I just got an eyeball report from Shirley who is in Moorehead/Beaufort. She also checked with the office of the marina where Braveheart is and verified the skipper had a broken arm. That Braveheart is not "our" Annapolis SOSer's Braveheart. YEAH!!!!!"
You won't find stranger weather conditions on the east coast than you do off Hatteras. Yeah, I know, we have all heard the stories about the graveyard of the Atlantic. But here's the thing as demonstrated by the 2013 Salty Dawg: When a weatherman tells you what a front is going to do, and on what schedule, as it transits Hatteras; believe it when you see it. This place is like flypaper for gales. Fronts that were supposed to come and go, stay. Weather that wasn't supposed to happen, happens. So when the gales of November come calling, hunker down and wait for your window, otherwise you may meet the door. Hatteras is a weather-making machine. To be respected, not feared.
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/Salty-Dawg-Rally:-aftermath-of-Gulf-Stream-storm-havoc/116550
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/Salty-Dawg-Rally:-aftermath-of-Gulf-Stream-storm-havoc/116550
Great description! It seems like low pressure systems which have transited the country from the west coast, via Texas, just love to hang out over the ocean side of the cape and intensify. It is a storm germination tank. Particularly for those Noreaster's which rake the NE coast.
I'd love to hear from more meteorologically savvy members on why that is - I know Gulf Stream; but, I'm sure there's other synergistic phenomenon at work.
Sitting behind Ocracoke a few Octobers ago I witnessed a fast moving weather front sweep in from the NW across the banks and grind to a stop over Frying Pan Shoals. By dawn it had churned up into a massive gale with cumulus clouds reaching thousands of feet into the atmosphere. It built and propagated into a nor'easter, extending itself northward over a number of days. Winds went to +35knots and stayed there for days. By the time the thing died away it had caused damage the whole way to New England. There was talk about riding the thing south "as it died", which was just crazy, because it had a life of it's own.
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