Hi Steve and Linda… we’ve been following you for a few years now, never had a chance to bump into you. We just had on board Peter and Gail from S/V “JABIRU”, good friends of ours since Cuba and we were talking about their experience in the Dismal Swamp. We’ll be going down […]
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Penobscot Bay, Maine, Photos
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After Hurricane Irene A Few Thoughts
The air is cool and clear, Oyster Bay is once again filled with birds, and the roar of tropical storm Irene is quickly fading from memory. We have a busy couple of weeks ahead with Wind Horse, and then we return to Arizona for a month. Before the lessons learned fade we thought a few […]
Irene – After The Eye
1130, the sun has peaked through the clouds for a few minutes, and the barometer has bottomed out at a relatively high 971mb.
The eye has passed nearby, close enough for the breeze to drop into the teens, and swing rapidly to the southwest, but too far to experience the blue hole.
The question now is what […]
Waiting For The Eye
We’ve had a squally night, filled the water tanks, but no major excitement. Michael Jones took this shot of Steve checking and adjusting the snubbers.
The big Fortress anchor is ready to slip under the lifelines if needed.
Do you think Gene Kelly (Singing In The Rain) would be jealous?
We have been trying to capture the feeling […]
Hurricane Irene Anchor Position Logic
We’ve moved a short distance to the east and reset the anchor. Winds so far are east to northeast, at anything from a few to 25 knots. The drawing upper left represents the circulation of a northern hemisphere depression. As you can see, the wind direction we have indicates the track is to our left […]
Secured and Waiting For Irene
1300 Saturday – Oyster Bay – we have completed hurricane preparations.
June Jones has reflaked the secondary anchor rode, so it is ready to deploy. Notice the figure eight lay to minimize the risk of fouling.
The “turtle” (blue bag) is secured aft of the house and adjacent to the big electric winch. One end of the […]
Preparing For Hurricane Irene
We are anchored in Oyster Bay’s West Harbor, on Long Island (west coast), getting ready for Irene’s arrival Sunday.
We’ve chatted with our old cruising buddy Ralph Naranjo, who used to hang out here, to get the skinny. Ralph said West Bay and he was right. As you can see above, it is protected on all […]
Bad Seamanship, Rules Of The Road, and Boat Drivers Who Should Find Something Else To Do
The last few days have seen some shockingly bad, not to mention dangerous, seamanship in crossing or close maneuvering situations. We’ll start with the example above from the narrow channel leading into Nantucket Island’s harbor.
We were maneuvering around two small sailboats on their way in, as were we, when this high speed ferry came barreling […]
Hurricane Party
We’ve been working our way back from Maine, with family and friends.
Anchorages have been lovely, but not nearly protected enough for what is coming in the next few days.
Wildlife has been well worth watching.
Including our old friends near Cape Cod.
They seem to know we are friendly.
We would have liked to spend more time in Nantucket. […]
