Going North

[Dancin Dave]

Started my trip home on Thursday. Left Hilton Head and arrived in Wrightsville Beach in 12 hours running the outside at 20 kts. This is one of our favorite stops, great facilities and the Bluewater grill restuarant is great overlooking the icw, wow roasted clams and lobstertails and the homemade cheesecake!

Friday left through masonboro inlet and traveled the outside to Beaufort at 16 kts and up the icw to river forest bellhaven NC. 9 hrs. Wow we ran into a nice wind from the north east coming across the Neusse river and thought we were going to get swollowed.The boat handled great as I met each wave with throttle and rudder adjustment, it took a bit to learn that slowing way down could have been deadly and a 10 -12 kt speed had to be maintained as to keep the nose up. anyway at riverforest we met Capt Joe from marine max in Brick. What a nice and kind man. He invited our family to join in on a Marine Max mini rendevous and trip fron Boca Raton Fl heading to NY. It was a pig roast, what a great evening, what a great group of boaters. If anyone knows Capt Joe, he must be your friend, because you cant meet him and not like him. Marine max is lucky to have him.

Well sat morn it was off to coinjock for lunch and fuel and then up to Norfolk.via icw (21.5 kt cruising) While at coinjock, a 55 dancer came in for fuel, let me say for a boat that costs as much as it does the owner had a heck of a time dealing with all the diesel coming out of his tank vent. The vent is flush with the hull not external and impossible to collect the spillage, so out came the diapers, and more diapers. The poor guy had to sop fuel during the entire fill up. 11 hours including the stop on this run.

Well its sunday morning and it was a good 3 day run, however with this this wind storm hitting and the 14 ft seas forcasted its off to the airport and will leave the boat until next weekend.

 

[ImpulseIII]

Dave,
If you are forced to come up the Chesapeake rather than go outside and you need anything , let me know and I will meet you with whatever you need (except cash!!) :grin: Have a safe trip.... :thumbsup:

 

[boatrboy]

So how long do you figure from Norfolk to home?

 

[Dave S]

It sure is a windy one out there. Even here in carlotte we are having 30+ MPH winds and they are expected to continue tomorrow and possibly Tuesday as well. Here is the latest information from NOAA's web site.

OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST
NWS OCEAN PREDICTION CENTER WASHINGTON DC
1030 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2007
W CENTRAL N ATLC CONTINENTAL SHELF AND SLOPE WATERS BEYOND 20 NM
TO 250 NM OFFSHORE...INCLUDING S OF GEORGES BANK FROM 1000 FM TO
250 NM OFFSHORE
ANZ085-070830-
BALTIMORE CANYON TO HATTERAS CANYON OUT TO 36N 70W TO 34N 71W
1030 PM EDT SUN MAY 6 2007

HURRICANE FORCE WIND WARNING
...N WALL OF GULF STREAM NEAR 35N 75.3W...36.2N 74.4W...36.8N
72.6W...37.3N 72W...

OVERNIGHT
FAR NW PORTION...N TO NE WINDS 25 TO 35 KT. SEAS 10
TO 15 FT. ELSEWHERE...NE WINDS 35 TO 50 KT...EXCEPT 50 TO 65 KT
FROM THE GULF STREAM SE. SEAS 15 TO 22 FT...EXCEPT 22 TO 32 FT
FROM THE GULF STREAM SE. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND TSTMS SE.

MON
NE WINDS DIMINISHING TO 25 TO 35 KT...EXCEPT 35 TO 50 KT
FROM THE GULF STREAM SE. SEAS BECOMING 12 TO 20 FT...EXCEPT 20
TO 30 FT FROM THE GULF STREAM SE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS S.

MON NIGHT
E TO NE WINDS DIMINISHING TO 25 TO 35 KT...EXCEPT
TO 40 KT NEAR THE GULF STREAM...AND TO 15 TO 25 KT N OF 37N
LATE. SEAS SUBSIDING TO 14 TO 20 FT...EXCEPT TO 25 FT IN THE
GULF STREAM...AND 10 TO 14 FT N OF 37N. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
TSTMS S.

TUE
E TO NE WINDS DIMINISHING TO 15 TO 25 KT...EXCEPT 10 TO
15 KT FAR NW PORTION. SEAS SUBSIDING TO 10 TO 16 FT...HIGHEST SW.

TUE NIGHT
E WINDS DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 20 KT...HIGHEST SW.
SEAS SUBSIDING TO 8 TO 13 FT WITH SE SWELL...HIGHEST SW.

WED
SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS SUBSIDING TO 6 TO 10 FT WITH
SE SWELL...HIGHEST SW.

THU
E TO SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS SUBSIDING TO 4 TO 6 FT.

FRI
SE TO S WINDS 10 KT OR LESS. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT.

 

[osd9]

Have a safe trip Dave....and if you find yourself in the Central NJ area needing "ANY" assistance, give a shout....I'll do what I can to help......you do still have my cell?

 

[Four Suns]

Not a good week to be on the outside of the ICW. The winds in our area are incredible. We have hurricane force winds on the coast and storm force winds on the bay. This was on our local paper's website. (EPERB?)

Dramatic rescue for Coast Guard
Gusting winds strand boaters; Portsmouth crew rescues several, including three boaters clinging to raft

BY MIKE HOLTZCLAW
(757) 928-6479
May 7, 2007, 12:14 PM EDT

PORTSMOUTH -- Coast Guard rescue units out of Portsmouth have already rescued two groups of boaters endangered by today's gusting winds, and they are working on at least two more cases.

While the Coast Guard station in Mathews has remained quiet, the Portsmouth station has been kept busy rescuing boaters off the coast of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, said spokesman Petty Officer Christopher Evanson.

In a dramatic rescue this morning, a rescue crew picked up three boaters who were in the water clinging to a makeshift life raft. The Coast Guard station picked up a distress signal from 160 nautical miles east of Hatteras, where three people aboard the sailboat Lou Pantai had gone into the water.

Evanson said the Coast Guard sent a C-130 airplane to fly above them in order to guide the rescue helicopter. The helicopter dropped a rescue swimmer into the water who brought all three boaters aboard. They were taken to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, near Fort Macon, N.C. All three boaters were showing signs of hypothermia, and one of the three had broken ribs, Evanson said.

Earlier in the morning, the station's first rescue occurred in the Diamond Shoals area just off the coast of Cape Hatteras, when three people aboard the sailboat Seaker were caught in 40-knot winds. A Coast Guard helicopter rescued them and took them to Air Station Elizabeth City, where they were treated and released.

Evanson said rescue units out of Portsmouth were working on at least two other rescues of boaters endangered by the high winds.

In each case, he said, the Coast Guard was alerted to the ship in trouble by the vessel's electronic positioning emergency radio beacon (EPERB), which automatically sends out a distress signal if the boat begins to take on water or sink.

 

[Dancin Dave]

Thanks Guys! We left the boat in Norfolk. We arrived there on saturday night in good weather, other than a little bump or 2 on the alligator river we had a good travel day.

The wind was crazy on sunday. We drove home from there and the waves we saw driving the C.B.B.& T. were nasty.

Norfolk to Cape May should be 8-9 hrs sea dependent. I'm going to try again on Sunday.

Thanks again all of you.

Oh I feel sorry for anyone who took the Pamlico sound route on Friday.
Dave