29 October 2016 | Georgia, USA
29 October 2016 | Georgia, USA
08 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
07 October 2016 | Hotel on West Side of Hwy I-95, Brunswick, GA, USA
07 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
06 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
05 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
04 October 2016 | Photo off Outer Banks near Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
27 September 2016 | Piankatank River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA
22 September 2016 | Current Position - Sassafras River, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA
16 September 2016 | Orient, Long Island, New York, USA
11 September 2016 | Ebenecook Harbor near Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
07 September 2016 | Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA
05 September 2016 | Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA
04 September 2016 | North Haven, Vinalhaven, Maine, USA
28 August 2016 | Castine, Maine, USA
27 August 2016 | Belfast, Maine, USA
12 August 2016 | Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA
06 August 2016 | Canada/USA Border Crossing
04 August 2016 | La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada
Frankenstorm is Coming
25 October 2012 | Port Lucaya Marina, Freeport, Bahamas
Vicki - 35 kn gusts NE, 1009 mb, rain squalls
This hurricane is now being called Frankenstorm as it is going to hit the US during Halloween and on the 21st anniversary date of the Perfect Storm. We can't think about that right now as we have our own personal Frankenstorm heading our way in 24 hours time. Maynard and Jake spent today looking over our neighbour's boats to see if they needed help. Alex, our Cuban yacht skipper next door needed help in lowering his jib and packing it safely for the storm. Mike and Heidi from Cloud 9, the 109 foot motor vessel also needed help retying their lines, removing the battery from their dinghy floating behind them, and advising them what to expect as this is their first trip on their vessel and their Captain has left them to it and gone back to the US.
We've been checking the wind speeds out at the Old Bahama Bay Marina at West End and have seen winds as high as 35 knots today while we've only experienced winds to around 17 knots during rain squalls this afternoon. The barometer has been dropping at a rate of 1 mb per hour this afternoon and has gone from 1014 mb to 1010 mb in the last 4 hours. The centre of Hurricane Sandy is currently 963 mb with sustained winds of 105 mph and wind gusts to 125 mph moving north at 19 mph. It looks like it is going to make a left hand turn over the top of Grand Bahama coming a bit closer to us before heading north again with a storm the hurricane specialists have never seen before as it heads towards New York after passing us. This is as bad as the Perfect Storm except worse as this one will come ashore on the US coastline. We actually feel fortunate that we are nowhere between Wilmington, South Carolina north to the northern part of Maine. We still have 36 hours of bad weather ahead of us. Worryingly, high tide was much higher on the dock than we expected to see and we are starting to feel slight storm surge. We'll be on tide watch during the night to check lines.