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I know we've been whining a lot lately about the wind and weather here in Maine. To you folks in the hurricane belt, our complaints about 45 knots probably seem piddling. All I can say is that in our anchorage, 45 knots is bad.

In any event, things were way better than we had feared overnight, lacking the ridiculously high winds, and Glissando, Dasein, and Cirrus are bouncing on their moorings still. (Sorry, Clint...Cirrus is too far away to photograph!)





More wind and rain in the forecast for the next couple days, so the fun continues. The issue now is the duration of the wind, rather than the strength itself.

Guys, glad to hear you faired well thru the night. I got up several times in the night to watch the weather channel to see if conditions had improved for you. Hang in there..... looks like it might get a little worse before it gets better. I will be thinking of you and sending good thoughts.

"I know we've been whining a lot lately about the wind and weather here in Maine. To you folks in the hurricane belt, our complaints about 45 knots probably seem piddling. All I can say is that in our anchorage, 45 knots is bad. "

Tim,
To all of you sailors up there, whenever the wind blows like that, no one thinks its piddling. The bile just rises further up in your throat as the wind increases.

Cheers,
Ian

Well, your wind has arrived in CT. Two tree limbs down on the cars this morning. Fortunately, I have the luxury of being able to park a 25' truck to windward of the boat shed as a windbreak.

That's what you guys need! A bigass container ship, anchored just to windward!

Figment wrote:That's what you guys need! A bigass container ship, anchored just to windward!

hehehe

Out to CIRRUS again...no more damage. Let the anchor drop to the bottom so pendant wouldn't chafe against it...took the now ripped-to-shreds dodger off and remade fast the furler line which somehow managed to almost come off its cleat. Looked more closely at the toerail as conditions had calmed a bit...looks like I'll be replacing more like 2'+ of toerail but amazingly the boat that hit me didn't even scratch the gelcoat except for a small dent just above the SS guard at the sheerline.

I gasped when I saw what looked like Daesin in Mussle Creek but it is Gracie, a pretty red Triton washed up...I am trying to track down the owners to help them salvage it.

Looked at Glissando on the ride by in the launch and she looks just fine.

Cheers.

Clint,

I didn't realize you had been hit. Sorry to hear that!

I don't have any contact info for Gracie, unfortunately. I met the owner once, but never got any info. I thought he lived right there, which is why the boat is moored there. Hopefully she's on the mud.

I tried to go out in Handy's launch yesterday, since PYC is closed, but I waited forever and never even saw the launch, so I went home. Maybe I'll try again today. I've ruined my eyes by staring for 30 minutes through binoculars trying to see how the mooring lines are looking...the magnification isn't quite enough! If it calms down enough, I'll happily take the Fatty Knees out, but no reason to be stupid, either.

Not too bad down there this noontime.

Tim wrote:Clint,

I didn't realize you had been hit. Sorry to hear that!

Yes...there were thousands of square feet around me with no boat moored but the phantom boat in the night out for a little float found us...my current theory is that the bow struck our port side twice, the toerail took the worst of the blow, and perhaps the bowsprit came down on the dodger bending it and starting the rips...wind di the rest.

Nathan...worst is over...we should be able to breath easy....good luck with your insurance claims and repair work...its now that we need to remember that we'll be broad reaching in a seabreeze and this will all be a bad dream.

Cheers.

tartan30cirrus wrote:Yes...there were thousands of square feet around me with no boat moored but the phantom boat in the night out for a little float found us

Isn't that always the way...what a drag. It seems like the odds would be against a collision at this point, yet it always seems to happen.

Since I wrote my above post, I have discovered your original post discussing the damage.

Look on the bright side: didn't you just say that you weren't happy with your dodger fabric now that the deck's repainted? :<)

Tim wrote:didn't you just say that you weren't happy with your dodger fabric now that the deck's repainted? :<)

Yes...the only benefit...again IF insurance covers it which they have to! The replacement dodger will also be Hallett's super cool new H2O tube material...have you seen it?

http://www.hallettcanvasandsails.com/ca ... ml#dodgers


Cheers.

tartan30cirrus wrote:good luck with your insurance claims and repair work...

Assuming nothing else goes wrong, I won't be making an insurance claim. By the time I remove my deductable and add in the amount that the insurer would want to raise my rates, it's not even close to worth it. Insurance for me is for total loss and liability, not for a few hundred dollars in replacement parts as this damage is.

Now, if I was looking at replacing a dodger, well maybe that's a different story!

Yeah, the H2-ube is pretty slick! Pixie will have one of those.