Second Nor' Easter of the season..

Marco Garcia · Nov 3, 2014

Hi Maine sail
Glad all is well with yours...Its sad for the lost ones.
I hope some nice sailing days come your way before haul out.... being based on the Chesapeake, I winterized with Vodka the last 3 seasons. This year I took Zorra to Florida earlier in the Year (Arthur was coming up while we sailed down from Charleston to Fernandina beach), and sits waiting for me in Coconut Grove, I'll be back in the USA in December..It has been a lucky year for topical weather in Florida.

Zorra has Hydronic heat, but I prefer being on deck Toasty warm and sipping Cool or cold drinks!! ;-) (Wondering what to do with the Vodka budget this winter! :-D)

Outlook for the winter seems above normal temps for you but wetter??
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=01
Happy Holiday Season..

JK_Boston_Catalina310 · Nov 3, 2014

Glad to hear you guys are OK. A lot of similar issues down here in the Boston area. Boats up on shore, lots of canvas damage, swim platforms ripped off and lots of fiberglass damage. It should be a lot of work for the local fiberglass and canvas guys this winter.

We almost got our boat holed during the first nor' easter. The jib on the boat two slips down blew out. This boat is a planing-hull racer with a carbon fiber stick and synthetic rigging. The jib was being held closed near the bottom by a single sail-tie. The jib sheets were not even wrapped around the jib to hold it furled. I don’t even think the continuous line furler was cleated off. The boat was bow in, tied up to its starboard side in the double load slip next to us, while we were stern in tied on the starboard side. This meant we had an empty slip, a finder dock and another empty slip between us. Which was a good thing because standing in my cockpit I could almost touch the top of this mast when it was heeled over during the gusts. Gusts that were as high as 63 kts. Looking at our inclinometer, we were heeling over to at least 25 degrees on gusts and that was with 4 dock lines holding us down from heeling. During a big gust I realized how close to a disaster we were, the other boats bulb keel was hitting the finger pier to his starboard. That was the only thing stopping this boat from going all the way over and hitting my boat with the mast. We eventually got his jib down and retied off his boat. I spent most of the night pumping off boats, replacing fenders and retying dock lines.

Tim picked the right year to head south. Hopefully he will get out of LIS soon.

Tim R. · Nov 3, 2014

That sucks about the damage. Most the time it happens with boats that do not prepare for the conditions. It really sucks when one of those boats impacts a boat that is properly prepared. We did a lot of prep when we were in Halifax when Arthur came through. Most everyone at the yacht club did nothing. Luckily Arthur was mostly a dud for Halifax.

We were planning to leave Westbrook today but back spasms kept us in port. Will likely leave tomorrow for Port Jefferson, NY. Did not even do anything stressful, just bent slightly to grab something off the nav station. Two weeks ago I was riding my mountain bike over 70 miles with no issues even after slamming into the ground once.

All U Get · Nov 3, 2014

Grrrrrrr.

All U Get

Bob J. · Nov 3, 2014

Tim R. said:
We were planning to leave Westbrook today but back spasms kept us in port. Did not even do anything stressful, just bent slightly to grab something off the nav station.

That's how it usually happens, doing something simple...
Great getting old

Second Nor' Easter of the season..

Maine Sail

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Marco Garcia

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JK_Boston_Catalina310

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Tim R.

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All U Get

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Bob J.

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