Gabrielle

[Four Suns]

This probably wasn't a good time to pull my engine apart to fix it as my boat is now dead in the water for the weekend. Guess I get to spend my Saturday getting the boat ready for 55 knot winds...

And yes... I'll be on the boat through the storm adjusting lines. The track of that storm has the potential to push a lot of water up the bay and, as one would expect, we are at unusually high tides already due to the astronomical pattern we are in.

 

[Converse48]

Educate me... what will you do for storm prep?

Doesn't look like this one is going to make it up my way, but it's only a matter of time before one does!

 

[RiverRat]

Doesn't sound like fun... Just be very carefull, riding this out onboard isn't sounding like the safest place to be during something like this.

You'd also think you could get that thing to move with 5 out of the six engines... But what do I know, I buy small boats...

Hmmm, is it a promotion going from mission control commander to (what should feel like) A shuttle pilot?

 

[Four Suns]

This just looks it's going to be a Nor'easter type of storm... but..

I have to get all the water toys and smaller boats off the dock. And because it is a pretty day today, I'll have to deal all day with boat ramp jackasses. I'll take pictures.

For the 480, it's a case of tying it up snug in the center of it's slip with long lines but double tying everything to different pilings/cleats. I usually stay on the boat in these storms and adjust lines as the water rises and falls. No lectures from the peanut gallery please. :grin:

 

[Asureyez]

Nylon stretches

Hey Gary:

A note from the peanuts in Hurricaine alley ... Nylon line stretches under load by as much as 15% As you set your lines inside a slip try to gauge the stretch factor and make lines a little tighter than you'd normally do to the windward side. In setting lines to cleats pay attention to making sure every cleat can be freed under thousands of pounds of load.

Good luck my friend.

 

[Nehalennia]

Gary,
Best of Luck. Sounds like you've done this before. I'm sure you'll be fine. Hopefully no more are behind her.

 

[comsnark]

Darn.

I am much further north. . .I was planning to take the weekend off, but it looks like I need to go down and do storm prep myself. Nor' Easters cause more damage in my neck of the woods (due to flooding) than category 1 hurricanes.

 

[fwebster]

Looks to me like your chances of even tropical storm winds are less than 10%. You are on the upwind side of the storm but Gabrielle is compact, so I would expect a little surge ahead of the actual passage off shore. When the storm passes by, the excess water will be drawn back out of the bay. So, you probably just need to check the lines periodocially and should be able to stay inside and watch the Weather Channel try to sensationalize the "weather event".

 

[Four Suns]

Yeah... looks like a non-event now...

Guess I'll just sit back and watch Snakes on a Plane tonight with the kids...

The trouble with these hurricanes for the Chesapeake Bay is when the northern half passes just east of the mouth and we get a strong easterly wind... it's not the wind I worry about. It's the rise in water.

 

[Alex D]

Weather Channel is predicting a 2 to3 foot storm surge on the coast ... I wish we could get that on the lake, :smt009 but we have the chance for rain, so that would raise lake levels :thumbsup:

 

[Four Suns]

This turned out to be a big fat wiener of a storm.... Keep it up mother nature...

 

[jrirvine1]

"You call this a storm??" :grin:

 

[fwebster]

I can't believe you guys are complaining! I remember one summer we hauled out for storms 5 times.....my boat spent more time blocked up in a barn than it did in the water that summer.

Remember what they say..."Don't temp mother nature" or she may show you what she really can do.