On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:21:20 -0500, "Roger Long"
wrote:

The buoy reports for the area don't show the winds so bad that a vessel like
Red Cloud with a master as experienced as Joe should have gone down unless
there was a flooding problem.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.p...eas=wdpr&uom=E

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.p...eas=wdpr&uom=E

There are near gale conditions over much of the Gulf right now, and
it's out of the north and *cold* by our standards. Not a good place
to be for a heavily loaded 40 footer.