All Hands Report

[Jim Breashears]

While we had a visit from Sandy, she was much kinder to us. 

Papoose & crew faired very well, but we've been wondering about the rest of the fleet in the northeast. Please know our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Can't wait to hear you and yours are safe and sound, Nutmeg? Ladybug? Ptarmigan? Anyone else?

Jim & Dana
Papoose

[Craig Bush]

We got PT on the hard as we had a trip to Europe planned, it got cancelled, and all is well in Mystic but for 18" of water in the basement-could have been worse,Regards
Craig, Amy& Willow

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[David Mokler]

We Hauled Chatte out of the water on Sunday. We did not get anything
like the storm you southerners got here in Maine. We had wind up to
60 knots Monday night but no rain and not too bad a storm surge. Some
coastal flooding. I have attached a picture of Chatte in full sail
alongside a friends Pearson off Wood Island light. Looking forward to
next season!

David and Mel
Chatte de Mer
Biddeford, Maine

[Jim Breashears]

Thanks, that a great shot! Good to hear you weathered OK.

Here is a picture of my latest project. I am replacing bulbs with LEDs. You can by 16.4 feet ( for only $10 on Amazon! ) of these waterproof LED tapes and cut to the length you need.

[Peter Jenkin]

Ladybug was to have been hauled out for the winter a week before the storm came.  All is well.  We didn't even lose power.

Pete & Nancy

[Jim Breashears]

No response from Sylvia yet. Isn't she located in NYC?

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[Sylvia Lachter]

Hi All! 

Yes here in New York! 

Glad to hear everyone and boats are fine.

And all things considered, all is well here.

Had no power, and no heat., but had running water (I'm in a 5 story building so didn't need a water tower to get city pressure, that's 6 stories and above), and plenty of candles and flashlights., and could cook by manually lighting the stove.  I was luckier than many of my friends who lived further downtown, who had nothing at all. So I wound up having a number of people camping out here.  

With no power for the fridge, we cooked a lot and at least ate well!

We finally got electricity back Friday evening.

Walking downtown at night (and trust me we didn't do a lot), was very spooky!  This NewYork, and it was just dark. Dark. Dark. Dark.  On the main avenues's you could see light from uptown which did not lose power, but the sides streets were pitch black.  Even with the full moon, not enough light filtered down.  You'd pass people in the streets and you couldn't make out the faces....

Here's a photo of Nutmeg from last Sunday evening, mostly stripped down and in the process of getting tied up. We wound up doubling, and at some points tripling lines. I'm normally a little further out on a floating dock, but the marina offered a spot on the main dock.

See the  piling aft on my starboard side, behind my bimini.... well look at the next photo.  Reports from the live-aboards at the marina, when the worst surge hit on Monday night, my all the docks,  lifted up past the pilings.  Two finger piers broke free, but amazingly it came down on the same spot.

Friends reporting back to me on Tues. said Nutmeg looked as if she'd never even been through the storm!

I was at the marina all this weekend helping with the clean-up, and they were right. 

My marina sustained almost no damage (except debris) but the Huguenot Yacht club next to us didn't do as well.  A number of docks lifting and came down onto the pilings, boats broke loose and many damaged.

Let's hope Nutmeg does as well in the N'orEaster predicted in the next few days.....

Sylvia

[Jim Breashears]

Great News!!!!! Wow, what power Sandy had! Thanks for the photos.

On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Sylvia Lachter wrote:

Hi All! 

Yes here in New York! 

Glad to hear everyone and boats are fine.

And all things considered, all is well here.

Had no power, and no heat., but had running water (I'm in a 5 story building so didn't need a water tower to get city pressure, that's 6 stories and above), and plenty of candles and flashlights., and could cook by manually lighting the stove.  I was luckier than many of my friends who lived further downtown, who had nothing at all. So I wound up having a number of people camping out here.  

With no power for the fridge, we cooked a lot and at least ate well!

We finally got electricity back Friday evening.

Walking downtown at night (and trust me we didn't do a lot), was very spooky!  This NewYork, and it was just dark. Dark. Dark. Dark.  On the main avenues's you could see light from uptown which did not lose power, but the sides streets were pitch black.  Even with the full moon, not enough light filtered down.  You'd pass people in the streets and you couldn't make out the faces....

Here's a photo of Nutmeg from last Sunday evening, mostly stripped down and in the process of getting tied up. We wound up doubling, and at some points tripling lines. I'm normally a little further out on a floating dock, but the marina offered a spot on the main dock.

See the  piling aft on my starboard side, behind my bimini.... well look at the next photo.  Reports from the live-aboards at the marina, when the worst surge hit on Monday night, my all the docks,  lifted up past the pilings.  Two finger piers broke free, but amazingly it came down on the same spot.

Friends reporting back to me on Tues. said Nutmeg looked as if she'd never even been through the storm!

I was at the marina all this weekend helping with the clean-up, and they were right. 

My marina sustained almost no damage (except debris) but the Huguenot Yacht club next to us didn't do as well.  A number of docks lifting and came down onto the pilings, boats broke loose and many damaged.

Let's hope Nutmeg does as well in the N'orEaster predicted in the next few days.....

Sylvia

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[Sylvia Lachter]

Yes, it was a big one...and Cuomo's words are ringing in everyone's ears that "this is a 100 year storm that is showing up every two years...

Everyone I talk too seems to feel this is going to happen again, and sooner than any of us would want.