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twoblocktom · 28-08-2011, 10:17

It looks like the worst of Irene has past...is everyone safe and sound ???

mbianka · 28-08-2011, 10:23

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Originally Posted by twoblocktom

It looks like the worst of Irene has past...is everyone safe and sound ???

Well my cell phone has not rang and that is good news. Though I may not know for sure how the boat did until tomorrow.

stevesailor · 28-08-2011, 10:35

well, my boat was at a dock in wanchese NC, where the eye passed directly over. my friend who was looking after the boat says there was no damage, and it's fine.
kinda hard for me to believe, but hey, guess i might have gotten lucky. my friend in baltimore did fine on his boat too. the media hype got me pretty terrified, but looks like things are ok...

twoblocktom · 28-08-2011, 10:45

That's good news!!!
Better safe than sorry

ShaunJ · 28-08-2011, 10:47

All appears well on the sassafras river, chesapeake. No storm surge to speak of, just a lot of tropical storm winds

svpattyd · 28-08-2011, 11:22

Galesville yacht harbor and pirates cove docks r fine. Lots of debris in the west river. Even tho it wasn't as bad as Isabel, glad we had the boat hauled.

Mark1977 · 28-08-2011, 11:28

Still in a tropical storm warning here in Halifax. Heading down to the boat for the night , we'll see what we get.???

sailorboy1 · 28-08-2011, 12:14

It's looking that it is going to mostly miss me. I expected this because I did the boat prep and Murphy's Law applies.

Irene isn't even up to my house in NH yet, but the wind and rain have died down. So it looks that it has blown inland more.

twoblocktom · 29-08-2011, 15:10

It's good news it was mostly hype.

perchance · 29-08-2011, 15:17

Better all the hype than to lulled into a false sense of security

twoblocktom · 29-08-2011, 17:03

I agree, better to possibility wast a little money than a life

colemj · 29-08-2011, 17:43

We left our boat in Panama for a couple of weeks and came to Baltimore to experience the earthquake and hurricane. Now we are without mains power running a generator long enough to keep the beer cold, do some email and watch a movie at night.

Feels like we are back on the boat...

Mark

nv5l · 30-08-2011, 04:28

I rode it out at anchor in Oyster Bay on Long Island, and my only damage was a parted snubber that chaffed through after she passed by. I had a lot of fetch to the west got a lot of relatively rough waves, but the backup snubber on deck held, and there was no other damage. Sorta exciting there for a few minutes...

**sneuman** · 30-08-2011, 04:44

It wasn't hype. This was a serious storm that luckily ended up being not as bad for some of us in the mid-Atlantic as we thought it might be. In any case, you can't say that about N.C. or Vermont.