Well, That Was Bit Of Fun! ! ! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

     All's well that ends well and at least around here, Sandy has ended. We seem to have been rather lucky as the damage was limited to several large trees going down and some eyesore beach cabanas "going away." The few who lost electricity should have it back by tomorrow or the next day.

     TYC survived relatively unscathed. The water actually rose under the Clubhouse (the building is set on piers) almost to the floor joists but there was no water entry into the building. We lost no windows. We lost no siding. We lost no shingles. We gained 2 1/2 feet of beach front. Lots of debris got washed ashore on the beach front but far, far less than after IRENE last year.A couple of sections of the dock got uprooted but these shore section just floated to the front of the building and can easily be set back in place. Our race committee barge, "The Queen Merry," which is anchored off the club in the river, got dragged 200 some yards upstream but appears fully intact.

     I basically napped during most of the storm.  A friend and I tried to walk down to the train station to catch a view of the water but were chased back home by the police who had closed off all the streets to traffic both car and foot.

     I did get down to TYC yesterday morning and "gamed" with several members of the club who had shown up to "assess the damage." Everyone was relieve that the damage was minor. Had the storm surge hit at high tide it would have at least flooded the Clubhouse and probably lifted it off its piers. Then the damage would have been much, much greater.

     Aside from the survival of the Clubhouse and the safety of family and friends, talk revolved around the loss of the BOUNTY. She had stopped in New London just last week and head from here to Fort Lauderdale. None of us could figure out what she was doing out in the Hurricane. Considering that she had only a crew of 16, most of whom were NOT experienced open-ocean sailors, one would have thought that if they were determined to make the trip that they would have gone the long way around the storm, first to Bermuda and then to Fort Lauderdale. A crew of 16 seems a bit thin for handling a boat that large.

As far as I know, ABISHAG survived with no problems. She didn't fall over and no tree fell on her. So all seems right with the world