How's everyone on the East Coast of Florida makin' out with all the rain?
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Florida checkins please...
How's everyone on the East Coast of Florida makin' out with all the rain?
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Re: Florida checkins please...
Talked to Margo last night. She was planning on leaving Sarah in.... But if the yard thought otherwise she'd haul out....
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Re: Florida checkins please...
thats serious.
Grateful Member
Re: Florida checkins please...
We're hauled, but it's not really that bad. 28 ENE now with gusts to 40...
See also - TS Fay bilge thread:
http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83916
Chief Adm!n.
Re: Florida checkins please...
"Checkins"...... More like ducks these days I bet.....
Never trust a man with a clean workshop.
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Re: Florida checkins please...
This doesn't look good:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...ml#cnnSTCVideo
(A CNN video clip of what's described as "100 year old yacht" beached by the storm)
apparently, the link is variable -- look for button which reads "high and dry"
Last edited by Hollingsworth; 08-21-2008 at 03:23 PM. Reason: verify link works
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Re: Florida checkins please...
I'll find a link to the St. Augustine Record article and pictures. Not for the faint of heart...Originally Posted by Hollingsworth
The chap was asleep at the wheel - literally... and mistook the inlet.
However, he's got cutzpa. I didn't see the interview, but supposedly there's one of him with a piece of wood in his hand saying he's going to rebuild and continue his journey. Then the camera pans around, and I'm not exaggerating, there's like the cockpit pounding in the surf and the rest of the boat is GONE!
http://staugustine.com/stories/08210...2108_072.shtml
There's also two boats swept into the Bridge of Lions (neither of them mine...)
Last edited by Concordia...41; 08-21-2008 at 04:58 PM.
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I am so glad he wasn't harmed. What a tradgic loss.
and knowing the mess around the BofL, that must have been a mess too...
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Re: Florida checkins please...
Well, what one can't find out via phone can be found out here. I trust you are breathing easier.
Too bad about Le Houx's boat. :-( Some may remember Paradox; it's a risk boats are willing to take to be free.
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