Ahmet
08/19/2008, Plymouth, MA

It is 2 pm and we are sitting on a mooring in Plymouth
Our original plan was to leave around 11 and sail to Onset.
But when I saw the weather pattern approaching I decided to stay put.
AN that was a good decision.
Around 11:30, a rainsquall came by, it was as if someone was pouring buckets of water out of the sky.
It was the strongest rain I had experienced in a long time, stronger that what we experienced in the BVI last year as we ran across Hurricane Noel.

But that was nothing..
The rain squall passed us in about 10 minutes, the sky cleared up for a while, but there were dark skies out west.
We were all covered up and waiting.
I turned on the instruments to read the wind speed.
It came ... black skies, some rain, and wind.. 30 .. then 35.. then 40..
At this point Nomad was swinging around the mooring about 150 feet off the seawall..
then the big one came .. it grabbed Nomad, heeled her over about 45 degrees to starboard, swung her 180 degrees, then heeled her to port.
As we were swinging, I read 94 knots of wind.
I started the engine, just in case, and was on standby to try to power into the mooring, should we start dragging.
I was happy that I had bridled the single line mooring ball with one of my dock lines.
Then it dropped to 60 and stayed at that for a minute or two before dropping down to 40 and eventually dissipated.
So we will be in Plymouth for tonight, and move on to Cuttyhunk tomorrow morning.

Danielle said that it was the scariest she had been on a sailboat.

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Ahmet /Sunny
08/10/2008, Gloucester

We left Winthrop Yacht Club 9:20 and arrived in Glochester 13:30
ALl day motorsailing at 5.5 knots, no wind, beautiful sunny day.

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Ahmet
04/19/2008, Winthrop, MA

We are back in Winthrop. Left around 11:30 Am. It was a nice sunny day with a 10-15 knot easterly breeze.
We are now in our summer home. The summer looks promising.
Everything (that we have) worked fine Good old bertha the Universal M-21 is purring along, stuffing box and bottom seem to be fine. No significant events.

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Ahmet
04/15/2008, Charlestown, MA

Well it is the season again.
The winter dwellers are coming out of their boats, and life is coming back to the Marina !
The sun is up it is a cool April day, the shrinkwrap is off, the deck is somewhat cleaned up, and we are getting ready to move over to Winthrop.
There is a lot of work to be done, eventually Nomad will get it's mast back which is waiting at Crystal Cove Marina in Winthrop. We will have better sealed deck hardware, new windwane, new autopilot, new anchor light, and a working spreadeer light.
We will be going on a boatless vacation for a week, to sunny Florida.
After that, towards the end of April, we are off to Winthrop.

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Ahmet
04/15/2008, Charlestown

OK Folks !
Who did this !
Nomad's nose was painted. In a rather artful way.
I can quite well guess who that was !
A particular neighbor of ours, probably got the inspiration after they got their shrinkwrap down. She must have climbed up on his shoulders. The eyes are almost 8 feet off the ground !
You shouldhave signed it Kristi !

I wish we had done it at the beginning of the season !

Next year.... wait till next year ! we will have grafitti wars :):):) !

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