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svmoxie
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Initially Posted - 08/16/2004 : 10:31:37

I took my daughter Amy to college Friday and got home about 9 pm to find a dozen phone messages from the Marina and friends telling me that Charley had picked it up and made a fast right! The forecast indicated that we might very likely get a direct hit as he came back ashore.

After cancelling the 22 guests that I had coming the next day for a cookout I grabbed the trailer and a change of clothes and drove to the marina, 4 and 1/2 hours away. I arrived about 4 am, grabbed a quick nap and got up at 6 to start prepping. My original plan was to haul out to the trailer but the forecast at that time looked like Charley would come ashore in South Carolina, which put us in a better position, so after some dock talk and consideration I stayed in my slip and prepared for a south / southeast blow. My good friend Dick, also an Asso. member, came over from his house with some much needed tools, coffee and helped. What I did was:
<ul><li>Removed the sails </li><li>Removed the boom </li><li>Removed the outboard and rudder </li><li> Duct taped the halyard and topping lift coils to the mast </li><li> Duct taped the vents in the hatch boards </li><li> Lowered the dock lines on the pilings to keep the pull low </li><li> Tied up closer to the south side of the slip </li><li>Used 9 lines, bow, stern fore and aft springs and one breast line to make getting back on easier </li><li>Hung all my fenders around the boat</li></ul>

There were funnel clouds all over the place before the main storm hit and lots of thunder. When the main storm hit we had around 50 knots of wind in the marina and about an inch of rain in roughly two hours. Other than suffering from some tree limbs falling and cold pizza everything was fine. Cleaned up, packed up and headed home; I got back about 10 pm Saturday night. So after roughly forty hours, 14 of that driving, on a few hours of sleep, Charley is gone and all is well.

Danielle and Earl look to be little threat so I can relax a bit, I hope! Here is the view of the sunset after Charley visited.

Clif

Winston-Salem, NC

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 08/16/2004 : 10:45:16

Here is a shot of Oriental Harbor at the peak of the storm. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those people in Florida that weren't as lucky.

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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 08/16/2004 : 12:11:50

Glad everything was OK. Charley ran over our new C25 (1 wk ago, haven't even had time to register it with the association) in Southport. We left for WV on a long-pallned camping trip. Talked to the previous owners who have their new boat in the same marina, they said they'd look after it; Friday morning forecast said Charley would stay inland so we went to WV. On the way back we find a voice mail from them saying the boat was OK despite Charley running over it (check out http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT03/refresh/AL0304S+GIF/152158S.gif, it went right over Southport). SO we keep driving past Raleigh straight to Southport.

Boat was fine, it had one piece of the sun cover ripped of the furled headsail. The only damage I saw around the marina was 5-6 headsails torn off the furlers (I think a lot of people got caught by surprise

). Other than that, the boat is dry, not a scratch (nice boat, nice boat).

In a few weeks we are moving to Oriental. Having visited both, it seems like a better place to learn to sail and cruise (this is our first sailboat).

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 08/16/2004 : 13:10:50

Excellent news! Drop me a note when you are in the area and I will stop by and visit. I am just across the Neuse in Club Foot Creek.

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