Just found out today that your boat was one of 3 that broke from her mooring last Thursday in the 50knot gale. Hope all is well and no damage. Ran into another owner of 'Skye' a Tartan 30 his boat was found about a mile up river and no damage othe than a few scratches. 'Sashay' is on another mooring now and I cruised past her today looking no worse the wear. You are a lucky man my friend.
Regards.
Don
PS. I moored on the wrong mooring and was not directly next to your wild stallion..God works in mysterious ways.
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Hi Don,Don Carr wrote: Just found out today that your boat was one of 3 that broke from her mooring last Thursday in the 50knot gale. Hope all is well and no damage. Ran into another owner of 'Skye' a Tartan 30 his boat was found about a mile up river and no damage othe than a few scratches. 'Sashay' is on another mooring now and I cruised past her today looking no worse the wear. You are a lucky man my friend.
Regards.
Don
PS. I moored on the wrong mooring and was not directly next to your wild stallion..God works in mysterious ways.
I'm curious where this was! We are in Stonington, CT - a 45' or so motorsailor broke loose from her mooring in the same storm and wound up bashing her port side pretty badly against the outer breakwater... the DBY crew worked from 11PM to 3AM to get her off and haul her in!
Was interesting to learn that in such agitated conditions the chafing gear/mooring pennant friction can heat up the line enough to cause it to break! Never had thought of that one - of course without chafing gear, the line would chafe and rupture a lot sooner
Anyway that's what happened in this case. And with two pennants to boot!Also the name "Sashay" perked my interest. I knew a "Sashay" a few years back - real pretty little 24' Ostkust sloop - so named because the lady's name was Sasha - just curious about this one!
Everything rode out yesterday's winds in Stonington fine. But we took a walk out on the ocean side of Naptree Point (CDSOA folks know where this is!) and the wind was 40 kts + with incredible rollers, and sand flying like bullets (yes I know, sailors are nuts:) it was unreal. Watched a motorsailor smashing its way through Watch Hill Passage against the gale (and the current!) making quite well under power, abt 3 kts but burying her bow constantly. Thought maybe it might have been Leo (hi Leo:) but never found out!
Cheers,
Yves
S/V "Alphee" CD27 #4 (1977)
S/V "Whim" Sabre 34 Mk II (1986)
(hate being a fleet commodore dammit!)
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