No I'm not doing my imitation of a dog. That describes last night here in HopeTown.
This cold front we had come across yesterday was supposed to be of only moderate conditions but it turned out to be the most vigorous one of the season. The forecast was for winds 15 - 25 kts with gusts to 30. It actually ran 30 - 35 with gusts near 50.
That much wind really makes the boat motion uncomfortable. The boat will yawl sideways one way then the other and then sometimes rocks side to side. You have to have one hand on the boat at all times to stay steady when moving about.
You might think that the conditions would make sleeping difficult but no, you can sleep okay, it is the anxiety of thinking your boat might break loose from a mooring and crash about other boats or another boat might come loose that makes sleeping difficult.
Fortunately no boats came loose -- oh did I say this started around 5pm and lasted till 3am. Naturally during the dark of the night.
After so many hours you really get tired of the wind noise and motion. We got lucky in that sometime between 2:30am (I was up checking radar and the average wind speed was 33 kts) and 3:30am the wind just died. It became flat calm! Still is at 9am this morning.
Won't last though. It's supposed to run 15 to 20 most of today which really is not bad. It's when it gets above 20 that it becomes rough rough.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
HEAVEN
Yep I'm in Heaven this afternoon.
The winds were perfect for kite flying this morning so I took a couple of favorites over to the beach (actually all my kites are favorites) and flew them. Ahhh they flew nicely especially my spinner kite.
After a lunch of a Chicken Hot Dog (bought the wrong thing but I tried it) it was okay. Karen won't even try them and she misread the package! I set up for a swim in the ocean. It's a nice day but cloudy so it feels cool. I went to the Hopetown lodge beach and the water felt quite cold. Hmmm I thought -- today I'm going to try the heated pool over at the Hopetown Inn and marina. So I packed up and went to he inn and marina. I don't feel bad using their facility since we spent $22 dollars yesterday there doing 2 loads of laundry.
Because it was overcast only one couple was there and they were bundled in towels on loungers. They gasped when I jumped into the water -- must have thought it would be cold. It wasn't!! It was great like just warm bath water. Ohhhh it felt good. Above it there was a smaller pool that was dribbling water into the main pool like a small waterfall. Ohhh now that water was VERY warm. I lounged in that for awhile.
I hate to say it but I'm HOOKED on a heated pool now. The ocean be damned!! Just kidding there.
We had a GREAT night at Captn Jack's bingo lst night. Karen worked here magic and won the pot for the "large Picture frame" -- that's were you hit all the numbers around the edge of the card. Remember these cards are called JACKS instead of Bingo so its all the numbers across the top, down the Js, across the bottom, and up your S's. People who played know what I'm talking about.
we have a major cold front or fronts coming across tomorrow through Friday morning so this is a good place to be. Chris Parker Weather is telling all cruisers to be in a SAFE harbour by tomorrow night. Could be severe thunderstorms in this passage.
We are hunkered down here so hopefully no issues here in Hopetown and no heated pool for a couple of days.
The winds were perfect for kite flying this morning so I took a couple of favorites over to the beach (actually all my kites are favorites) and flew them. Ahhh they flew nicely especially my spinner kite.
After a lunch of a Chicken Hot Dog (bought the wrong thing but I tried it) it was okay. Karen won't even try them and she misread the package! I set up for a swim in the ocean. It's a nice day but cloudy so it feels cool. I went to the Hopetown lodge beach and the water felt quite cold. Hmmm I thought -- today I'm going to try the heated pool over at the Hopetown Inn and marina. So I packed up and went to he inn and marina. I don't feel bad using their facility since we spent $22 dollars yesterday there doing 2 loads of laundry.
Because it was overcast only one couple was there and they were bundled in towels on loungers. They gasped when I jumped into the water -- must have thought it would be cold. It wasn't!! It was great like just warm bath water. Ohhhh it felt good. Above it there was a smaller pool that was dribbling water into the main pool like a small waterfall. Ohhh now that water was VERY warm. I lounged in that for awhile.
I hate to say it but I'm HOOKED on a heated pool now. The ocean be damned!! Just kidding there.
We had a GREAT night at Captn Jack's bingo lst night. Karen worked here magic and won the pot for the "large Picture frame" -- that's were you hit all the numbers around the edge of the card. Remember these cards are called JACKS instead of Bingo so its all the numbers across the top, down the Js, across the bottom, and up your S's. People who played know what I'm talking about.
we have a major cold front or fronts coming across tomorrow through Friday morning so this is a good place to be. Chris Parker Weather is telling all cruisers to be in a SAFE harbour by tomorrow night. Could be severe thunderstorms in this passage.
We are hunkered down here so hopefully no issues here in Hopetown and no heated pool for a couple of days.
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