Hi all, We checked the path of Earl and find it keeps coming on. Sounds like the predicted active season is here as they just named Gaston. As of very early Thur morn we are 65 nautical miles away from the forecast track of the center. On the safe side - if there is a safe side next to a category four storm.
We are right at the base of Cape Cod. We moved Angel Louise last evening further into an interior shallower cove (with less boats) near the south beach at downtown Onset, MA. We will deplore more anchors tomorrow. We will have four out including an unneeded one to the south (to keep the others in place) prior to the E-N-NW wind flow we expect from Earl. We intend to put plastic markers over the anchors with small cord so last minute arrivals can see where they are and no one puts an anchor right on top of one. As Earl is back at Cat Four, we see little we will be able to do aboard if we stay aboard when EARL hits if it stays that strong when it hits... It sounds like FRI night it will come on and move on quickly. We wonder if we do decide to get off the boat to go ashore where to go? Maybe the fire station? Something to ponder when your only home is your boat, (it brings to mind when the WX radio turned on at 1:30 am in the morning and gave us a tornado warning and said those in Beaufort, NC should immediately seek shelter in a safe location. We wish everyone and ourselves luck that Earl turns out to sea. One large company's experts feared for big damages in Rhode Island - but I am unaware of why they were more concerned for that area. Ed Ed & Sue on Angel Louise Sent from my iPad On Aug 28, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Phil Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah. Thanks for clarifying; sorry to have missed (at least part of) > the point. Device looks cool and I can see using it for dinghy > storage while moored or anchored, but the towing application still > looks like an accident waiting to happen, esp. in following seas. JMHO. > > For nighttime security and short- or medium-term storage, I just pick > the dinghy up with a halyard. One of these days I'll do something > more elegant with the spinnaker pole topping lift, spinnaker pole, > and block and tackle for lifting up the dinghy. > > Phil > s/v Cynosure > Bahia de Caraquez > > At 09:43 PM 8/27/2010 -0400, you wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 05:21:37PM -0500, Phil Sherwood wrote: >>> >>> The guy mentioned in a previous post had the nerve to complain about >>> a dinghy-towing device failing after towing a dinghy in rough >>> following seas? Because the device can't handle towing while doing >>> serious off-shore sailing? Really? People tow tenders and dinghies >>> and such while blue-water sailing? Talk about asking for trouble, >>> then being upset when trouble happens ... >> >> Phil, I hear what you're saying, and I even agree with you - but the >> gadget mentioned isn't a dinghy-towing device; it's a replacement for >> davits that raises the dinghy mostly out of the water, and can even flip >> it up over your stern for storage. Frankly, I think that they were >> drinking Screech the day they named it "Dinghy-Tow", since it mostly >> doesn't. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
