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Looks like a water spout
Alan, is that a waterspout? There were warnings this week, yesterday and today for Lake Erie? Y'all will sometimes see our bad weather 12 hours later. The admiral and I are suppose to take her folks to Pelee Island tomorrow. I hope that nasty stuff has cleared out.
Alan, is that a waterspout? There were warnings this week, yesterday and today for Lake Erie? Y'all will sometimes see our bad weather 12 hours later. The admiral and I are suppose to take her folks to Pelee Island tomorrow. I hope that nasty stuff has cleared out.
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A water spout that size would definitely tare up your sails, bimini, dodger and pretty much clean your deck for you. Oh, and probably your antennas also.
Seriously, that is a nice one and a perfect form. This looks a little bigger than normal, but they do come much much larger.
A waterspout is pretty much the same as a tornado, just over water. The real difference is being hit with water at 140 MPH is not as bad as being hit with trees and bricks at 140MPH.
They knock down pleasure boats with not too much of a problem, but usually dont sink them.
Usually when one goes over a platform out here, all of the life jacket boxes get ripped open and life jackets become airborne. Usually no major damage.
Tony B
A water spout that size would definitely tare up your sails, bimini, dodger and pretty much clean your deck for you. Oh, and probably your antennas also.
Seriously, that is a nice one and a perfect form. This looks a little bigger than normal, but they do come much much larger.
A waterspout is pretty much the same as a tornado, just over water. The real difference is being hit with water at 140 MPH is not as bad as being hit with trees and bricks at 140MPH.
They knock down pleasure boats with not too much of a problem, but usually dont sink them.
Usually when one goes over a platform out here, all of the life jacket boxes get ripped open and life jackets become airborne. Usually no major damage.
Tony B
I arrived a little late at the fair.
By the time I reached Lloyd Neck yesterday at 6 PM the spout was history but the hail, rain and amazingly large cumulonimbus clouds were still around. A friend in VA emailed me the article from Newsday about the water spout in Oyster Bay/CSH area. Driving out 'the neck' was a bit hairy even then. Today I found my 19' Lightning with about 30 gals of rain water in it (no cover). The same kind of weather was present with big, nasty looking localized systems moving through. I saw some funnel shape clouds forming to the north on the Sound, as I was bailing the water out of my boat. When the wind picked up and switched to to out of the north I decided not to risk getting drenched and rowed to shore against the strengthening wind. Very exciting 'tropical like' weather we have been having all over it seems.
Alan, do you sail out of OB or CSH?
I have Lightning #11416 if you ever see us out on the water or want to try a sailing dinghy again. I have always enjoyed your posts.
Not to get too political, but I wonder if it is just the better technology we have today or are these kind of incidents getting more frequent over a more wide spread area? When I was a teenager living on LI (several decades ago) I recall friends telling me about a water spout they saw while driving over the Throgg's Neck bridge. Is there just better reporting/monitoring today or is there just more of this kind of weather activity?
My guess is that this kind of occurrence is becoming more widespread even as our technology has improved over time.
By the time I reached Lloyd Neck yesterday at 6 PM the spout was history but the hail, rain and amazingly large cumulonimbus clouds were still around. A friend in VA emailed me the article from Newsday about the water spout in Oyster Bay/CSH area. Driving out 'the neck' was a bit hairy even then. Today I found my 19' Lightning with about 30 gals of rain water in it (no cover). The same kind of weather was present with big, nasty looking localized systems moving through. I saw some funnel shape clouds forming to the north on the Sound, as I was bailing the water out of my boat. When the wind picked up and switched to to out of the north I decided not to risk getting drenched and rowed to shore against the strengthening wind. Very exciting 'tropical like' weather we have been having all over it seems.
Alan, do you sail out of OB or CSH?
I have Lightning #11416 if you ever see us out on the water or want to try a sailing dinghy again. I have always enjoyed your posts.
Not to get too political, but I wonder if it is just the better technology we have today or are these kind of incidents getting more frequent over a more wide spread area? When I was a teenager living on LI (several decades ago) I recall friends telling me about a water spout they saw while driving over the Throgg's Neck bridge. Is there just better reporting/monitoring today or is there just more of this kind of weather activity?
My guess is that this kind of occurrence is becoming more widespread even as our technology has improved over time.
Watch out for Billy Joel whenever he gets into his car.
I thought they denied him a permit to re-build the dock on his place on Center Island? I read somewhere that he might have been looking to relocate as he wanted to be able to take his new 'old design' power boats into the city to visit his daughter at NYU? Maybe he just got a dinghy and a mooring like many of us do.
Not a bad guy, just watch out for him on the road here in Nassau/Suffolk north shore area as well as the Hamptons.
My sister's house is located just to the east of Caumsett State Park, not far from the beach on the Sound.
Cheers.
I thought they denied him a permit to re-build the dock on his place on Center Island? I read somewhere that he might have been looking to relocate as he wanted to be able to take his new 'old design' power boats into the city to visit his daughter at NYU? Maybe he just got a dinghy and a mooring like many of us do.
Not a bad guy, just watch out for him on the road here in Nassau/Suffolk north shore area as well as the Hamptons.
My sister's house is located just to the east of Caumsett State Park, not far from the beach on the Sound.
Cheers.
I heard tornado warnings...
...for the eastern end of LI yesterday on XM Radio's weather channell.
Jack
...for the eastern end of LI yesterday on XM Radio's weather channell.
Jack
CalebD
I race on Wed nites with Sagamore YC and on Tues and weekends with Shields and Swedish Match 40's. There are (6) 40's at OBMC that are great match racers.
Do you keep your boat at SCYC? Let me know if you're ever looking for crew, if I am available I never turn down an opportunity to go racing.
Cheers
I race on Wed nites with Sagamore YC and on Tues and weekends with Shields and Swedish Match 40's. There are (6) 40's at OBMC that are great match racers.
Do you keep your boat at SCYC? Let me know if you're ever looking for crew, if I am available I never turn down an opportunity to go racing.
Cheers
I just left Mill Neck
Before it showed up, funny I was at the traffic light at Cleft Road and Shore looking at the old Nantucket light ship and I always look at Billy's place
Last time I saw a water spout was back in the 70's when I was working at Clearwater beach
Before it showed up, funny I was at the traffic light at Cleft Road and Shore looking at the old Nantucket light ship and I always look at Billy's place
Last time I saw a water spout was back in the 70's when I was working at Clearwater beach
LI Alan
It sounds as if your 'dance card' is a little bit full at the moment.
I do not keep the Lightning at SCYC although that is the town I grew up in. The Lightning is moored in Lloyd Harbor for a whopping $25/year. Of course I had to put real bottom paint on it to moor it but it is rigged for racing and has 2 sets of sails (main, jib & spin). The irony is that I do not race my racing boat (Lightning) but I do race on my Tartan 27' (which is a cruising boat) up at Nyack. I am looking for crew to take the Lightning out and fly the spin with though. My schedule is hardly a schedule as I stay out on 'the Neck' at my sister's house during the summer when I can to escape NYC and race my cruising boat on Wednesdays on the Hudson.
I am not sure if you are free other evenings but perhaps you could send me an email if you want to go out and put her through her paces. I am reachable at calebjess aht aol doht com.
The not recently updated website for my Tartan 27' is below
It sounds as if your 'dance card' is a little bit full at the moment.
I do not keep the Lightning at SCYC although that is the town I grew up in. The Lightning is moored in Lloyd Harbor for a whopping $25/year. Of course I had to put real bottom paint on it to moor it but it is rigged for racing and has 2 sets of sails (main, jib & spin). The irony is that I do not race my racing boat (Lightning) but I do race on my Tartan 27' (which is a cruising boat) up at Nyack. I am looking for crew to take the Lightning out and fly the spin with though. My schedule is hardly a schedule as I stay out on 'the Neck' at my sister's house during the summer when I can to escape NYC and race my cruising boat on Wednesdays on the Hudson.
I am not sure if you are free other evenings but perhaps you could send me an email if you want to go out and put her through her paces. I am reachable at calebjess aht aol doht com.
The not recently updated website for my Tartan 27' is below
Oyster Bay . . .
is the only place our dog ever fell off the boat . . . two times . . . . exactly a year apart. Ever tried to lift a 60 pound lab into a 6 foot dingy and then onto the deck of a sailboat? I watched my Dad do it . . . without any water spouts though.
is the only place our dog ever fell off the boat . . . two times . . . . exactly a year apart. Ever tried to lift a 60 pound lab into a 6 foot dingy and then onto the deck of a sailboat? I watched my Dad do it . . . without any water spouts though.
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