Christmas Day Traditions Even when family is far away, you gotta get up early Christmas morning. This year, our only wish was to catch the outgoing tide for a cruise down the river to the sea. The forecast was for sun, 75 degrees and no wind. Since we haven’t yet replaced the sails we took […]
20 Best Hurricane Survival Tools to Help You Through Your Next Disaster
Some of the things that helped us get through Hurricane Matthew. During bad weather or other extreme circumstances, there are certain tools and supplies that make life better, more comfortable and safer. Here are my 20 best hurricane survival tools – items that made themselves indispensable for riding out a hurricane in a marina, or […]
How to Ride Out a Hurricane in a Marina
Hurricane Matthew Hits Beaufort, South Carolina Compared to what he did to Haiti, Matthew treated Beaufort, South Carolina with kid gloves. Every moment of our “ordeal” my mind returned to Haiti. With every gust that seemed unsurvivable, I remembered pictures of the devastation there. Those pictures set us up to expect bad things here. We […]
To Do List: Hurricane Prep in a Marina
12 Hurricane Prep Actions that Helped Get Us Through Hurricane Matthew Take down all canvas. Take down roller furled sails, take down the main. Yes it’s a lot of work, but those with canvas up fared far worse than those without. FENDERS, FENDERS, FENDERS – tie them to both sides and to the the toe […]
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