I thought I might be blown right off the dock today. Winds over
35 knots of wind or more. Breaking wave were coming over the
dock. Now that my slip neighbor is gone, I'm now the most
exposed slip at the club. Time to haul out.

"Bart" .@. wrote in message
...
I thought I might be blown right off the dock today.
Winds over
35 knots of wind or more.


Is that all? Check this out;


http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwher...nID=108&geogra
phicalAreaID=17&siteID=90&Isection=Last+7+Days

Scotty

Thanks for the link Scotty. I wish I could back it up and look
at yesterday. I've been thinking about setting up a weather
station here at the house. I might do that. I should set up a
wind generator as we get lots of wind here. Average for the
area is 12 knots, and I'm betting on top of this hill we average
15 knots or more.

I had trouble getting to sleep last night. Things would seem to get
calm and then a prolonged gust would come in and the whole house
would shake. I'm gussing well over 40 knots of wind. I'm heading
down now to pick up a boat part and check on my mooring lines.

I'll keep the link in my bookmarks, but from my studies, the wind
reports are not all that accurate around here.

"Scotty" wrote

"Bart" .@. wrote in message
...
I thought I might be blown right off the dock today.
Winds over
35 knots of wind or more.


Is that all? Check this out;


http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwher...nID=108&geogra
phicalAreaID=17&siteID=90&Isection=Last+7+Days

Scotty

Bart wrote:

I thought I might be blown right off the dock today. Winds over
35 knots of wind or more. Breaking wave were coming over the
dock. Now that my slip neighbor is gone, I'm now the most
exposed slip at the club. Time to haul out.


How exposed are you, long open fetch? Waves breaking over
the dock don't sound good. Remember you can still set an
anchor to hold you off the dock, we've done that here in
hurricanes. Another thing you can do is borrow some
inflatable dinghies and stuff them between ECHO's hull & the
dock!

DSK

Bart,

This is the first week since I sold the Boat that I can say;"Glad she's
Gone!" Two days of GALE Winds 44mph gusting to 60 or seventy depend
where they were reporting from. My wind gauge topped at 62.

It was unbelievable how nice it was today but there is another one
heading right at us


http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ILLDRINKTOTHAT

Things were not so bad here Thom. Winds hit 42-43
knots-peak.

Today, I found one bow line damaged. One of the three
strands was cut through along with a section of chafe
gear. I'd set it the bow up with three different mooring
lines with the idea that one would stretch and then the
others would kick in as needed. The tightest one was the
one that was damaged. It worked out ok.

I thought I left enough slack in the bow, but I'm sure
the bow must have been pitching up and down a lot
more. When I left--I was moving about 18" or so. My
bow line leads more down than side-to-side. I'd prefer
to make it off farther to each side so the line is more
horizontal.

My neighbor didn't want me leading over to his cleat which I
did in the last storm because he tripped in the dark one night
and nearly fell in.

This storm was from the South, so I took a more horizontal
lead to the farthest cleat I could reach on the other side in
a now vacant slip. I was seriously worried I'd rip one of
my one cleats right out of the dock.

However, I see that I need better chafing gear--still.

I spliced up two more thimbles. So nearly everything
is on shackles and thimbles with eye splices. I have
one or two more to do. Which means my only worry
is chafe and inproving shock absorbtion on the bow
lines.

Many people in the club seem to fare better than I.
Most boats are powerboats that don't rock, roll, or
pitch as much as I do. I'm more vulnerable to wave
action than the powerboats.

Many people use 1" three strand. I've been using 5/8" lines
and I double everything up to prevent any single point of
failure. Even so, I'm thinking about going bigger on my
four main docklines, and putting in bigger cleats on the
main dock so I don't have to worry adn lose sleep over it.