So How Is Everybody Doing?

[Oswego John]

Now that Oil (ahem, I mean Earl) [Andy has me tawkin like a Nuh Yawkah again] has come and gone, how did everyone make out?

I have read reports of the hurricane's aftermath from the Carolinas, up past the Chesapeake to the Jersy shore near Cathy. Lots of wind and rain except in north Jersey, where they are having a drought. Neil mentioned that it was a non-event in Boston. Didn't hear anything about LI Sound, Oyster Bay or Conn.

But what happened in SW Mass. and Cape Cod? I seem to remember seeing on the TV news that there was much damage near the mid Cape area around the Kennedy compound and the vicinity. How about Mattapoisett and that portion of the state?

I'm just wondering out loud. Maybe no news is truly good news. I hope that Oi---er- Earl is just a bad memory, a nasty scare, a test.

So rehank and get sailing again. We are running out of season.

Best regards,
O J

[Warren Kaplan]

I went out sailing yesterday in 15 to 20K winds. First time out since Earl came by on Friday. My boat had absolutely no damage, nor did anyone else's in Oyster Bay.

As a matter of fact the launch driver told me on my ride out to my boat on Sunday that there was more wind in Oyster Bay (25K plus or minus) on Saturday than they had on Friday, the day Earl came by. Go figure!

[Dick Barthel]

No damage in SE CT except that grounding in the Fisher's Island Yacht Club race that Bill reported. I was in Fairfield on Saturday and it was blowing like made but that was from the front moving across NE and not Earl.

[Neil Gordon]

As a matter of fact the launch driver told me on my ride out to my boat on Sunday that there was more wind in Oyster Bay (25K plus or minus) on Saturday than they had on Friday, the day Earl came by. Go figure!

Pretty much the same in Boston. I checked the wind history for Hull, which was within (actually, the northwest border of) the Hurricane Warning area... max gusts during the storm were about 23 mph.

[Cathy Monaghan]

See the last few posts in the original "Earl" message thread that was originally posted by "M. R. Bober" on August 29th, starting with Andy Denmark's posting of Sept. 3rd.

Earl = non-event - Andy Denmark Fri 9/3/10 1:47 pm


Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

[Oswego John]

Check.

Missed that. Sleeping again I guess.

I did read about Andy's "Oil."

Thanks Cathy,

O J

[Joe Myerson]

OJ:

The same goes for here on Buzzards Bay.

In fact, it was so windy on Saturday that I could not put my sails back on the undamaged boat. The wind was gusting over 30 knots. As I was about to climb into the dinghy (I almost couldn't row against the wind to get to the mooring), a beach-walker came by.

"There's more wind today than during the storm," he said.

Sunday was also very windy. But I did get to sail yesterday, in a wonderful breeze that was gusting to 20-plus knots.

--Joe

[Andy Denmark]

'Twas nothing
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Ford futura history

[D Rush]

Earl seemed to pass by in the night without incident.
My CD 25 is mooring at Pemberton Point, in Hull, Ma, I "battened" down and prepped my boat on Thursday evening, a lovely evening.
Friday came and went & so did Earl. Saturday & Sunday seemed "windier", steady 15 with gusts to 30 mph with more on the same on Sunday, mostly from the West. I did not get out to the boat until Monday. Monday was beautiful, nice breeze, mid 70's. We went for a nice cruise around Hingham Bay until around 5pm. The wind was "freshening" late in the day with gusts in the 20's

I was in Bristol RI on Sunday, visiting my son at RWU and I noticed a lot of empty moorings, and some "floating docks" in the creeks. So Bristol certainly prepared for the worst.

It was interesting to hear "Hull, Mass" mentioned as the northern edge of the Hurricane Watch. Hull doesn't get mentioned much in the weathercast.