Sandy Arriving!

SHIP'S LOG:

There is nothing like a storm . . . . . . especially if your boat is "safe and sound," which I am assuming that ABISHAG is at the moment. She is out of the water but that doesn't preclude the water coming to find her! That all depends on how much rain falls in the north and drains down the Connecticut River.

Being on land has its own dangers in a storm. The wind is the culprit here. A sailboat up on poppets presents a lot of windage and if it is not blocked right can blow over. And if the boats are packed relatively close together, one going over usually produces a domino cascade and that will send a whole bunch over and that is no fun at all.  But there really isn't diddly I can do about it, especially now. One has to trust one's yaradcrew.

The first high tide hit New London about 9:30AM.  It was sufficient to put the entire dock and most of the beach at TYC underwater. The wind, probably around constant 40mph with gust into the 50's, is right on shore at TYC, putting the water partially under the porch at the club.  The clubhouse is built on pilings and has survived the 1938 Hurricane and Hurricane Carol intact. Uncomfortably, both of those Hurricanes are being used to describe the effects that this one is likely to have in this area.  We will evidently get smacked pretty good but we should suffer a lot less than others in the state further down toward New York.  The water will pile up in the Sound where it narrows south of New Haven and they should get a lot of flooding. They are also scheduled to get a lot more rain than we are as well. All in all, it should be a nasty couple of days.