Our best to those in the path of Irene

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Hopefully all the Tug folks have taken proper precautions to protect and life property [including Tugs] We wish the best for all in harm's way. If in doubt,get out !
Marc
 
Thanks for thinking about those of us experiencing Irene. We were about 100 miles east of the storm's center here in Annapolis. But in the days leading up ... who know how close she would come? Watching all those spaghetti string projected tracks was a little nerve racking.

Bay Ranger stayed in her slip with doubled up dock lines, stripped of her bimimi, and decorated with every fender she owned. She had as much slack in her lines as possible - just enough to keep her off the pilings to allow for any storm surge coming up the Bay. She was a little squirlly in her slip in gale force winds the during the night. Fornunately, the storm surge which we experienced to the tops of the pilings with hurricane Isabel in 2003 did not materialize this time. There were no problems keeping her in her slip. Winds started picking up around 7pm. Soon thereafter, we lost power in the area. Since she's only about 75yds from my front door, I was able to check on her a couple of times until 3am when things started to die down a little.

After 24 hours, power has been restored and all is well. A 5.8 earthquake and hurricane Irene in the same week are enough to last us for a while!

Ed
 
Indoor storage, it's a beautiful thing! Our other marina took a real beating in Norfolk so we were glad to splurge on the "garage" further inland.
 
... and one correction for Bay Ranger ... the storm center was 100 miles EAST of us, we were not 100 miles east of the storm center. Come to think about it, we were about 100 from the center of the earthquake too. Guess 100 was our "lucky" number this past week.

Sparky - glad Starry Night was high and dry!

Ed
 
YOLO hauled last Thursday. Back in the water this week. No damage. Can't say the same for the marina. It took a beating, but my slip was spared.

Our best to everyone as well.
 
Thanks for the update. Glad to know you fared well. We're thinking about all the Tugnuts on the Atlantic seaboard and would love to hear from you.

Best,

Bruce & Vicki
 
I decided to leave our R25 Indian Summer in the water in Scituate, Mass. I could have pulled her out, but when I heard Irene would "only" be a tropical storm without a large storm surge in our area, I left her in. We're in a wide slip and turned the boat to face the wind with lines setup so that she wouldn't touch either finger.

Fortunately all was well with the boat, with no damage or problems. In retrospect I think next time I will have the boat hauled out under similar circumstances. It was a little disconcerting being at home listening to sustained winds of 50-60 MPH and hoping the boat was OK.

There seems to be more damage in our area to homes and power lines than to boats. Our house has no electricity or running water right now, with no idea when it will return. We may end up going back to the boat. There's no electricity at the marina, but with a generator, running water, and a toilet that flushes, the boat is looking pretty good right now.

Tom
 
Tugger Toy was moved to a friends farm away from the large trees next to our driveway. We don't know yet how she fared - we still have no power at home. The power company finally gave us an estimate of tonight or tomorrow night to have power restored . . . and we live in town. Some of my co-workers still don't know how long they will be out. Thank heaven for generators, camp stoves and humor!! We hope to check on the tug after work today. That was enough excitement for one week!!
 
Mon Petit Chou-Chou is berthed at the West Dennis Yacht Club in Dennis Ma. We were lucky and missed the bad part of Irene. I halled my boat on Sat and left her on the hard at the club. No damage to report. Club took a beating. Boat went back in the slip today and got a quick wash down. Boat was covered with sand and other wind blow. Hope all were as lucky.
 
I had Little Debbie hauled on Friday. I went to the marina late this afternoon to replace the trim tab zincs becuase I discovered they were virtually gone when hauled. The boat is in very good shape and I will have her relaunched in time for the weekend.
We did not have any damage to our home. A number of tree branches (some large) fell but they did not hit anything. We did not have any flooding, luckily the east side of Irene was much drier than the west side. Our power was out for only 8 hours.

Howard
 
Shared Dream stayed in the slip to ride out the storm. She has a covered slip at Shady Oaks Marina in Maryland. The distance between the roof and the top of the boat is about 8 feet, so any storm surge needed to be less. Several preparations preceeded the storm. The antenna and radar mast were lowered, bimini colapsed and covered, fenders out on starboard and port, eight 5/8" 30' lines were attached at the most distant and sturdy location possible (criss-cross at the stern, double off the bow and long spring lines on starboard and port), all electical demands were reduced to preserve battery for the bilge (hopefully not necessary), all drains were verified to be clean and functional, all windows and hatches closed and locked, and finally documents were removed from the vessel.
Like others, we were pleased that the center of the storm tracked east of our location. However, at the peak in this location, Irene delivered winds of 50 mph (Gusts to 70mph), 5 inches of rain, and 2 to 3' waves at the stern of the boat in it's slip.
Power is still out in the area and at the marina. No power means no water, and several sections of tin are missing from the roof of the covered slip.
According to the staff at the marina, Shared Dream stayed in the middle of her slip and never contacted the pilings! Not a single scratch to report. What a blessing!
We look forward to cruising on the upcoming labor day weekend.
 
We appreciate the thoughts from fellow Tugnuters. It's pretty hard to leave your treasure at the mercy of nature - but Chessie came through without a scratch. We executed our storm plan making preparations, similar to Shared Dreams, at our well known Hampton hurricane hole Salt Ponds Marina. Equipped with floating docks, we decided it was the safest place to keep the boat as Irene approached. The surge was below Isabelle's level but still approached about 4 or 5 ft from the top of the pilings. Looks like we'll be back on the water this weekend and next week. There are always lessons learned from each experience good and bad...the best advice I can give is have a good plan before you have to put it in place for real.
 
Just got power back this evening. Brady's Bunch was pulled out last Friday as well as appx 40 other boats from the docks at our club on the Housatonic River in Stratford Ct. No damage although 4 of our sailboats broke free from their moorings and ended up in the marsh and on the pavement. Our club sustained some major damage. Appx two feet of water in our clubhouse and damage to docks and decks. Sad to say the town of Stratford, Ct was issuing $100 tickets to those who did not have a permit to use their launch ramp when hauling their boats. Shame on them. Better days ahead I hope.
Ed Brady
 
We just got our electric turned back on this afternoon. Therapist II was on her trailer and weathered the storm well. She is full of leaves. We had three trees fall on the house with minor roof damage. Cleanup is the pits. We will fix the roof tomorrow.

I talked with our insurance adjuster, and come to find out, he is in the process of selling his sailboat so he can buy a Ranger Tug. He says we did not experience any storm surge in this area. He says we actually had the opposite - a low tide. Go figure.
 
We were at home in Annpolis watching Irene stall on the doorstep of our house in eastern NC. Our place there was built on piles post Isabel and the floor of my two story shop was above the Isabel flood levels by one foot. My shop got 26" of water inside (I had moved all my tools there). The house had little exterior damages and less inside. Four a/c condensers (all elevated above Isabel levels) were all drowned in the surge estimated to have been 10' where we are on Campbell Creek (off of Goose Creek at the confluence of the Pamlico sound and river).

Insult to injury she turned off our lights in Annpolis for a week, NC house had power 2 days before Annpolis. We rented an RV to head down to deal with the damages (hotels are 40 minutes away and had no vacancy anyway). We knew we'd have no a/c, no hot water or cooking -propane tank went cruising. Sitting on the porch typing this and the creek is beautiful as ever like it never happened, except tomorrow will be day 3 of shop cleanup. I haven't even started to list the stuff I've lost--don't want the tears in my beer.

The whaler always comes off the lift and trailered into the shop before we leave (during hurricane season). I think the weight of her trailer kept her from floating around in the shop - the storm scum was a few inches above the waterline.

I lost a lot of my 'good old tools but a lot of people down here had it worse, a couple lost thier houses, I don't mean there was a pile of rubble, their entire house left the foundation and was found across the river. My heart goes out to those folks, it gives me perspective over losing 'stuff'. Know what I mean?

Rip
 
Two TomCat's TC255 C-Dorys on the hard here, 7 miles inland. Northern Neck of VA, Potomac near the Ches Bay. We went to San Diego for the big blow...Power out for 5 days, Trees down, access linited, 100 Gallons of Propane on the big autostart whole house genset. Now awaiting Lady Katia.... Be kind to us please, have to get boats back in the water for the rest of the season!

Charlie
 
I'm a little late in responding, but I did pray that all was well with all of you. You all should move to Anacortes where we don't have tropical storms and worse.
Best wishes to all,
Bob and Nita
 
Nellie Too":3ao5aztg said:
I'm a little late in responding, but I did pray that all was well with all of you. You all should move to Anacortes where we don't have tropical storms and worse.
Best wishes to all,
Bob and Nita
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Well, no hurricanes, but all that talk about winterizing at your house last night made me confirm my travel plans SOUTH.
 
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