Here we go again!!!

[Sea Hunt Video]

This is an excellent visual of why I want to leave Florida:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at5.sh ... e#contents

This website apparently "auto updates" so when you are looking at the chart it may not look exactly like it looks now. Sadly, I do not know how to take a photo of the web page and just post the photo.

When talking with out-of-state friends I often refer to "hurricane alley" and explain that where I live in Miami is directly in the middle of "hurricane alley". As of this post the website shows an excellent pictorial of "hurricane alley".

I remain ever hopeful that this will be my last hurricane season in Florida.

[Skeep]

Roberto, the page view came through fine.

Indeed I understand your anxiety! You might as well bar the door!

[Neil Gordon]

You're reminding me that there was a perfectly fine 25D right here in Massachusetts. We do get the occasional hurricane and a nor'easter here and there, but it's otherwise 75 and sunny all year round, except for a few days here and there. You'd like it.

[Jim Walsh]

We do get the occasional hurricane and a nor'easter here and there, but it's otherwise 75 and sunny all year round, except for a few days

The Commodore has been hitting the single malt again.

[Sea Hunt Video]

You're reminding me that there was a perfectly fine 25D right here in Massachusetts.

Neil:

Yes, Peter's Cape Dory 25D (S/V Lady Jane) was (and I am sure still is) a beautiful Cape Dory. Peter spared no effort at maintaining her in Bristol condition. Peter parted with S/V Lady Jane a little over a year ago. Someone got a beauty.

I am actually thinking of your area as a possibility. Admittedly, the winters are cold and a lot of snow but the sailing season is good and there are some good diving areas (as long as you avoid the Great Whites ) I was born in Western Mass. and have fond memories of times spent in and around Boston. Got room for a Cape Dory 25D

[Neil Gordon]

Robert,

We should be in adjoining slips!

[Sea Hunt Video]

Neil:

I checked out the website for Marina Bay but could not find a price list for dockage and winter storage. Is it somewhere on their website or do I call them

Marina looks beautiful. The photos make it bigger than what I remember when I visited on your Cape Dory 28 S/V Liquidity several years ago. Beautiful area.

[John Danicic]

This is an excellent visual of why I want to leave Florida:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at5.sh ... e#contents

This website apparently "auto updates" so when you are looking at the chart it may not look exactly like it looks now. Sadly, I do not know how to take a photo of the web page and just post the photo.

When talking with out-of-state friends I often refer to "hurricane alley" and explain that where I live in Miami is directly in the middle of "hurricane alley". As of this post the website shows an excellent pictorial of "hurricane alley".

I remain ever hopeful that this will be my last hurricane season in Florida.

Ah… You could come up here to Lake Superior where the water is too fresh, too hard and too cold to sustain a hurricane of any size. It is a new lake every spring and you don't have to paint your bottom but once a decade if that.

Every place has it's problems. The trick is to learn to deal with it in the best way you can. I think in Florida's case it should be mangrove hiding holes far inland with plenty of stout rope and good insurance. That's what I have heard, but all I know is when the calendar says "September". I start thinking, cradle, antifreeze and shrink-wrap.

We all have our burdens. The neat thing with a boat is we could sail down and experience yours and you could sail up and experience ours.

Good luck and don't whistle for any more wind then your mangrove can take.

[Astronomertoo]

Robert,

We should be in adjoining slips!

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ha ha,
Hey Roberto, does that mean they might multiply? That would be cool as we need more 25Ds around. I would love one.
Speaking of cold and hurricanes, I was up in Superior Wi drooling over an old CD28 this spring when they were just starting to uncover and launch boats at THE marina in late APR. and they come back out in Sept. The season is super short, and passes quickly, as it was also up in the eaastern great lakes. We have a little more time down here to sail, like all year, and the water stays soft, adn warm, thus bottom paint ($$) is a little more important. Having lived in Mn, Ont, and Mi, I can tell you if you move north you will not be sailing more than 6 months a year, and you will likely not go swimming much either. The water is often hard and mean, but beautiful in between. I loved the places but missed the water activities.
I am originally from Vero Beach FL, practiced skin diving often. I have friends in SW Florida and a sister in Port St Lucie in the true hurricane zone and know what they went thru in 2004, and 2005, and it was horrendous. Lots of boats were lost, including one I used to own in Ft Pierce. I lived in Houston and Louisiana in the later 70s and early 80s and they lost lots of boats too. Corpus Cristy is a really neat place, but they also stack them up too often too. The FL panhandle and Southport (Cape Fear) South Carolina loses lots of boats to hurricanes, almost every year. Other than being on the edge of the really bad hurricane Andrew, I can not remember Miami getting hit with anything significant, which is good because it is one of the lowest elevations in the country, with the highest population, like no 2 in concern, and would be very very costly in $$ and lives. They have been lucky. But it will come.
When we moved here to the nature coast in 2005 it was partly because this area had not had a direct hit by a hurricane since like 1840. But we do get the edges and small stuff, but are shielded by the typical southeast US prevailing and steering winds. With that said, whatever is left of this weakening tropical little storm Erika will likely be sitting on top of us Monday or Tuesday.
We wish you well, and envy your well kept CD.
Best wishes
Bob C

[Joe Myerson]

Hey Roberto,
All you have to do to leave Florida is head north. If not back to New England, home of perfect weather, friendly people and polite drivers, then move to the Carolinas or the Chesapeake. They've all got Cape Dory fleets. Sure, all get hit by an occasional storm, but none of them come as close to the hurricane bullseye as Florida.
How long have you been living in Florida, anyway?
--Joe