Sunday, September 17, 2017

Storm at Shearwater


We are tied up to the dock and it is blowing about 40 knots gusting to 50. Remarkably the eye of the storm hit the coast right at Bella Bella and Shearwater. 

A super big yacht  lost one of  it's mooring lines. If it had gotten away it could have crushed our boat.  About ten bystanders got together to get it tied up again. The owners were off on an excursion somewhere.I am thankful we are not out in some exposed location today.


You ask " Where did he get those wind velocity numbers? Sounds like bullshit. "
They were taken off the instrument gauges on the sailboat parked beside us.

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