(Saturday Oct 27 – Dist: 42.1 mi; TTT: 5:15 hrs)
Our luck with regards to good travel weather has finally run out. A cold front from the west is being held up by Hurricane Sandy on the east coast and is producing strong north winds. It was OK to tra…
Enough is enough. It’s time to get out of dodge, or in this case, West Palm Beach, Florida. By this time on Sunday, Sharon and I had enough of marina life. But there was one problem. The weather in…
I should assure our blog followers that we feel very safe here at Ocean Marine Yacht Center in Portsmouth VA. So far any impact of increasing winds has been softened here by other boats and tall buildings. There will be another two days before Hurric…
A little after mid day now here on Pigeon Lake near Bobcaygeon Ontario and it is starting to get windy. Not too often that a tropical depression or ex hurricane makes it up this far, but this happens to be the convergence of two nasty systems; Sandy and a local disturbance. NY City is under … Continue reading »
This is where the wind and water are coming from. This is a fixed dock to the North that allows access from the main channel when the surge is high.
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“Hurricane Sandy strengthening as it closes in to New York City” is the headline of the NYC Post newspaper for today and we are on the Hudson River, some 40 miles north from there. Hurricane Sandy is called “Mammoth Sandy” and may pack more tro…
We expected the worst this morning at high tide, but the surge is not any worse than yesterday. The winds have shifted and are coming in from the North where the surge is over the fixed docks and blowing across the marina. We can still see t…
“Chesapeake City, MD”
Yesterday was a bad day to be on the beach on Jekyll Island. I expected that Hurricane Sandy would give us some awesome surf. I was wrong.Maybe these butterflies that we saw on the way to the beach should have been a clue that things were t…
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