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Author:  Rockets [ Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:50 pm ]
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Tropical Storm Fay, for a week they were projecting a westward path,...125 miles to the west of me, and I planned accordingly... I should know better by now, but for some stupid reason I believed them. sigh...

The reason for the rant, is my Hobie...which I did strap down, secured the rudders and lowered the mast. However, I left the tramp on... which I now fear is going to act as a BIG %$^&*9 sail, if it doesn't shred apart first. What's worse is now they're predicting this POS storm is going to become a hurricane and boomerang back to the north of us. Which means we are not going to see an end to the 65+ mph winds until Thursday. I've already written off my boat ramps...I just hope the boat makes it through.

While this isn't funny, it is funny...I just had my neighbor from across the street (who owns two Super Cats) come over in the wind and rain to tell me my sail had blown loose. Well not really, it was just a blue tarp, but they they cared enough to let me know anyway.

As an added note...Barefoot Bay, 40 miles to the south of me has already been hit by a tornado, and the rest of us are still under a tornado watch, which also may not end until Thursday.

If I knew it was going to last this long, I'd bought another bottle of tequlia... :idea:
Author:  JSWoerner [ Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:42 pm ]
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I spent last night auguring hurricane tie downs into the shell based lot at the sailing squadron in Sarasota. I thought about dropping the mast and pulling the tramp but by then Faye had turned east and I figured it would die inland someplace. We didn't even get any rain!

Now it looks like it is turning back towards the West but I think we dodged a bullet over here again. I just hope we get some good wind this weekend.

Good luck with your boat.
Author:  TexKat [ Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:42 pm ]
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Good luck, hunker down and all will be alright! It beats earthquakes! :D
Author:  sunjammers [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:16 am ]
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looks like she's going to come see me now. I wounded how many dealers are having to prepare for this one?
Author:  MBounds [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:26 am ]
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sunjammers wrote:
looks like she's going to come see me now. I wounded how many dealers are having to prepare for this one?


What? By stocking up on parts to get all the storm damaged boats back on the water? :wink:
Author:  Rockets [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:28 am ]
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Well it stalled out last night just south of us, and then moved. The eye is now over me as I write this. My pool which I emptied to do some work has over 12" of rain water in it. Suprisingly my boat ramps are still there and the boat itself seems to be OK.

The bad news is I have standing water in the front yard...over the septic field...and the toilets won't flush :cry:

Yeah, I'd say the Sarasota area dodged the bullet. Not to wish this on anyone, but couldn't you all use the rain over there?! Hopefully by the time Fay reaches the pan handle, it'll just be a rain event. It has been producing quite a few waterspouts off shore though.
Author:  sunjammers [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:25 pm ]
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MBounds wrote:
sunjammers wrote:
looks like she's going to come see me now. I wounded how many dealers are having to prepare for this one?


What? By stocking up on parts to get all the storm damaged boats back on the water? :wink:


what do you mean stock up on parts? we try to stock parts all the time!
Author:  Mugrace72 [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:05 pm ]
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Rockets wrote:
My pool which I emptied to do some work has over 12" of rain water in it.


I wish I had a pool.
Author:  Karl Brogger [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:45 pm ]
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Mugrace72 wrote:
Rockets wrote:
My pool which I emptied to do some work has over 12" of rain water in it.


I wish I had a pool.


I wish I lived somewhere warm enough for long enough to justify a pool :roll:
Author:  Wetasse [ Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:04 pm ]
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If anybody needs a surf report for NE Florida it's currently 10 -14 feet, wind ENE 35-40 Knots and more on the way. We dodged the Hurricane bullet but some evil looking squall lines and nasty rain has already hit us hard.

Since NOAA painted the bullseye on Jacksonville last night, the big question the past 24 hours was do we board the windows or not. It was a close call but we decided not to as this morning's forecast was for winds not expected to exceed 50 knots. Now, if Fay spins up again we are sort of screwed as handling sheets of plywood in over 40 knots is almost as dangerous as glass flying around. TS Fay is not cranking as hard as it was, but it's gonna dump a bunch of rain on us by the time she heads to Tallahassee.

The seaweed hits the fan tomorrow. Looks like I'll be taking out the submarine this weekend.
Author:  Max_Power [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:27 am ]
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sunjammers wrote:
looks like she's going to come see me now. I wounded how many dealers are having to prepare for this one?



Winds are forecast to be 30kts when she passes north of us, not too bad.
Author:  Rockets [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:29 am ]
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The winds gusts are the scary part. I used to have a tarp over part of my Hobie, but it's shredded now. The biggest thing is the #$%^&* RAIN. The storm has stalled out and I'm now up to well over 24 inches. Another 12 inches and I'm in BIG trouble. Why couldn't this storm stall out over Atlanta where they need the rain???!!!

Oh, one more thing...you can forget about the forecasts. They haven't gotten it right yet! If they keep guessing long enough I suppose they eventually may get it...
Author:  xanderwess [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:59 am ]
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Hey Rockets, you don't need to fake your swear words on this (censored) forum. It will (censored) censor them for your (censored) convience. Its (censored) awesome.
Author:  Johnny Wildcat [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:02 am ]
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Rockets...

You shouldn't be too worried about 65 mph winds. We normally see 60, 70 even 80 mph or greater winds across the boats with no issues. Of course it all depends on how much foot you have in your gas pedal :wink:
Author:  Rockets [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:52 am ]
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You shouldn't be too worried about 65 mph winds. We normally see 60, 70 even 80 mph or greater winds across the boats with no issues. Of course it all depends on how much foot you have in your gas pedal


Yeah, you're right. even though I had it strapped down, I've had the boat fall off it's rollers in the past due to high winds, and would rather it not do a repeat. I guess I'm a little jaded.

This photo isn't the greatest, but in reality I have less than 12 inches before flood stage. I have rocks lined up on top of the sea wall that make it look higher than it is. If the wind picks back up or shifts, the Banana River will defintely be in my yard. It's already breached down the street. For the most part, this is an older neighborhood where there wasn't a building code. Many of the houses are built on slab, and in some cases lower than the crown of the road. I've lived here for most of my life and this is the closest it's come to a breach.

I built a platform off my dock, but lower to launch my Hobie kayaks from, and it's under water...can't even see if if you're standing over it.

You can see my cheap A$$ boat ramps, which some how survived. In front of them are some pivoting slides I made from a stick of 12" PVC which allows me to transition from horizontal to a down angle in order to launch the boat. It's a little scary at the balance point, but manageable.

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