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Took the center console to NYC to see the ships. On the way back, skies darkened, so we beat feet. Got back to marina ahead of storm. Just went thru 40 mins of heavy wind, torrential rain and lightning. Now its sunny again and a rainbow across the river!
 
Still looks dark and stormy down by the city. No rain yet today.
 
Down near Atlantic City it was sunny and breezy until 4PM now it looks like it might rain or storm. It was fairly windy out of the south all day but the wind has layed down for now.
Bill
 
Looks like its heading towards us in Zachs Bay
We're all buttoned up waiting for it.
 
Today is supposed to be like yesterday, so if you go out, keep an eye on the sky!

We had a lobster feast last night, 40 or them suckers got eaten!
 
Decided to make like a trawler/sailboat and took a four hour tour around the island of Manhattan this afternoon. It's amazing how much more you can see at that speed. What a relaxing trip. Will do again for sure.

BTW - Hogan your "favorite" marina is almost completely gone!
 
No rain yesterday or today. The wind was 12 -15 knots out of the south all day today. It clouded up again towards the end of the day but no thunderstorms. Today I had finished the generator service which included cleaning the heat exchanger. Now it's once again running like the day it was installed and it's operating temp is right on the money.
Bill
 
Quite a light show to the north of us last night. We got some rain, but not too bad. Sunny & hot today!
 
Taking a ride to Atlantic Highlands for some "reasonably" priced fuel. May stay for a rib dinner as well.
 
We had a great time in Bowline 8 of us during the day and 6 spent the night absolutely beautiful day today. I had to head home early so my kid could get some homework done otherwise I would still be out there. For a season kick off I give this weekend a 9.5 I could have done without the light show but other then that it was perfect.
 
The weather missed us at Zachs. We had a few sprinkles and that was it. Left Freeport at 5 and arrived at The Boathouse at 7. Should be another beautiful night on the hook tonight.
 
Back to work for me in the morning but if I finish early maybe I will take the jetski out for a ride and meet you but I'm not sure my sun burn would like that!
 
Dave, The last 2 boats of your raftup had a bad experience. One of them went to leave and hooked the others anchor. The fellow from the cat that was in there came over and gave them some help unhooking each other. They were lucky and I think both got out without any damage but there were a couple of times we were not sure they would.
 
Yes I heard about this I still can't figure out how they got tangled but I will take the blame I had them both drop and I was very careful as to the placement. We had three anchors out front and two stern I spreed them out like a fan one to the port one out straight forward and mine to the starboard I left uneventfully I wasn't there to see them struggle but I feel bad about it. They still had a stern anchor out so it's not like they spun and crossed lines. The stern anchor made it that much harder to correct the situation.

Aside from that it was a great weekend now I'm paying the price with a bad sun burn. I used 30 sunscreen but I guess not often enough!
 
We were very lucky that we did not have a bigger problem. Thanks to the guy in the cat he helped us get untangled. I cannot figure out how we got crossed up but it was a first time experience for me and I have been boating for a long time. Plus while we were moving around in Bowline I still had the stern anchor set and the dingy attached. After a while that anchor pulled up, however due to some good luck the line did not get tangled in my props.. and the dingy just went for a crazy ride. I think next time every other boat should drop... What a great weekend in spite of the mess at the end.

Oh and as I was trying to decide if I should re-anchor to put away the dingy and roll up the line on the stern anchor, a friend came in (Season Ticket)and I was going to raft with him. Well his windless jammed and he then had to come over and tie up to me while he tried to fix it. Once he realized he needed a new part, he went over and tied up with Anchor Management and Hogan as we had to leave. It did give us around 2 more hours in the pond...
 
Bill the reason we had three anchor in a row was because I asked the people I felt confident could handle the task I wasn't sure about people I have never rafted up with before.
 
You need an "anchor nazi". Someone has to take control and direct the deployment and retrieval of anchors.
 
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