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What sailor would not be horrified by those photos from Matappoissett / Mahalo! It seemed to me that some of the dark blue hulled full keel boats were having a harder time than some of the other lighter, smaller ones... is that possible? And why?
In any case, most of us down in South Florida, once the Hurricane season starts in earnest, we prep our boats for the events, and they stay like that until late October or early November. Our good sailing season starts right after, so it really does not matter much. Here is Bandolera II as she sits right now -and will stay like that thru the end- those black 3-strand nylon black storm lines will be tightened to the hilt if we get the call, securing the boats tightly to the docks. Right now, her lines are a bit slack, so I can get in and out easily as I work on her.
Right now we are waiting to see when Katia will make her northerly turn and stay out on the water -and maybe SPARE US AGAIN... PLEASE!
I know this is old news by now but I only recently got power, internet etc back. But it was great to see the little boat bobbing there, the water was about 3 ft higher than the photo, but receded quickly. I don't know how you folks down south deal with this all the time-every 25 yrs is enough for me!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49650743@N04/6121626858/" title="After the Storm by MWainfeld, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6197/612 ... 2954ce.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="After the Storm"></a>
The storm may be "old news," but the experiences of individual boats and individual owners won't start aging until they're posted and the rest of us know about them.
We just got back from a 2 week cruise in Maine which included sitting out Irene at anchor. It wasn't too bad with the sustained winds topping out around 40 knots. We hung to a single Rocna 15 (33lbs) with a mud bottom. The boat sheared back and forth a decent amount but otherwise did very nicely.
I am sorry to hear about the damage that some of you have had.
Klem wrote:We just got back from a 2 week cruise in Maine which included sitting out Irene at anchor. It wasn't too bad with the sustained winds topping out around 40 knots. We hung to a single Rocna 15 (33lbs) with a mud bottom. The boat sheared back and forth a decent amount but otherwise did very nicely.
I am sorry to hear about the damage that some of you have had.
Do you have a West Marine China made Rocna? Shank hold up OK?
Where were you in Maine when Irene passed by. I was in Bucks County PA when she passed thriugh Maine. Got up to the boat Friday all was fine and bone dry inside.
Joe
Better to find humility before humility finds you.
Yes, I have one of the Chinese made Rocna's, mine was purchased in December 2009. The shank has not bent at all as far as I can tell. I also had a Manson Supreme 35 in the water and set but never bothered to load equalize the rodes so I only hung to that one when there wasn't much wind. I debated returning it but when I tried to get the Manson to fit the bow, it would have required extensive modifications including to the roller furler so we decided to live with it. In addition we had a 25lb danforth all ready to go. All of the anchors have 30' of 3/8" BBB chain (it would be 5/16" HT if I didn't already have the other stuff lying around) and 250' of 5/8" 3 strand. We had ~200' out on each hook in 22' at high water (the storm surge was pretty minimal).
We were anchored in the very southern corner of Rockland which ended up being great. I had been planning to go to Smith cove by Castine as I have done many times in the past but it was full of large yachts with shiny stainless anchors and it seemed to me that one stray boat could have caused a lot of damage. I have seen many of these yachts drag both their anchors in surprisingly little wind and didn't get a good feeling about it.
I actually spent the sunday before Irene anchored right next to your boat I believe. We had a line of thunderstorms come through but it wasn't too bad.
I'm in Lewis Cove up in the NE corner of Linekin Bay. Is that where you were the week before Irene?I'm sort of in the same situation as you with the Rocna. I was debating with myself about returning the Rocna I bought from WM but after hearing from WM that they have not had one Rocna returned because of damage I'm going to hold on to it at least for now. Might change my mind if Practical Sailor does some testing and gets bad results.
Joe
Better to find humility before humility finds you.
We sailed our boat from Onset down to Mattappoissett which was highlighted in the video provided by Mahalo. We had it pulled in Mattappoissett by the guys at Brownell's Transport who were GREAT to deal with. We then drove back to Onset and watched a scenario unfold that was similar to Mattapoissett, when a Hunter 36 failed to remove its headsail and it partially unfurled during the storm. The Hunter 36 then began to drag its mooring across the bay, smashing into 3 other boats along the way. Two of the boats it hit caused their pennants to part and they ended up on the beach along with a large power yacht the owner had on an insufficient mooring. The third boat it hit was a CD25 which the Hunter 36 became bound to broadside. The little CD took the beating from the much larger Hunter throughout the rest of the storm. After it was all over the Hunter 36 had significant damage from the CD25's lower rub rail wearing down a large section of the Hunter's hull right down to the roving, while the CD had only minor damage to the rail and it's bow rail was bent. All in all the "little" CD kicked the butt of the bigger Hunter.
I'm in Lewis Cove up in the NE corner of Linekin Bay. Is that where you were the week before Irene?I'm sort of in the same situation as you with the Rocna. I was debating with myself about returning the Rocna I bought from WM but after hearing from WM that they have not had one Rocna returned because of damage I'm going to hold on to it at least for now. Might change my mind if Practical Sailor does some testing and gets bad results.
Joe
Joe,
You have a beautiful spot up there in Lewis Cove. I was only there overnight arriving late Sunday afternoon but I have anchored there many times in the past before I owned this boat.
I will be interested to hear what PS says about the Rocna anchors as well.
