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Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB #165368 07/09/2018 10:49 AM 07/09/2018 10:49 AM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC jho OP Traveler
jho OP Traveler Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC	Hi all reporting from Cane Garden Bay this am as Beryl and her bands past thru, we had a very close call and good fortune as the high winds and rain broke our mooring pendant off, leaving us free and adrift in the mooring field during very bad weather. This about 7am I can't remember. Fortunately I had been up a while and paying attention . We were dangerously close to another boat so I ran up and check the mooring only to find we are attached to a pendant that had broken free from the ball. Ran up cranked engines avoided collision and stomped on deck to wake crew. We grabbed another ball quickly as the gusts and rain slacked for just a moment. Fast and alert thinking on my/crews behalf is all I can say that saved us and another boat(s) from possible disaster. Thank God this didn't happen while we were sleeping. Can't stress enough how fortunate we all were. "Moor-Secure" pft.. I backed down on it yesterday and held fwiw... Talk about adrenaline...It's an adventure folks!

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Re: Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB [Re: jho] #165371 07/09/2018 11:23 AM 07/09/2018 11:23 AM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 833 Houston, Texas louismcc Traveler
louismcc Traveler Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 833 Houston, Texas	Glad you're safe. We're tucked in a slip at Leverick. We'd planned to leave tomorrow for Anegada, but probably will hang around another day because things appear to be settling down by Wednesday. We were on a ball at Cooper Saturday before the stronger stuff hit and I have to admit I was awake most of the night hoping the ball, my two lines through the pendant, and my cleat hitches would hold. Louis from Houston

Re: Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB [Re: jho] #165372 07/09/2018 11:55 AM 07/09/2018 11:55 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 7,041 GA/NC GeorgeC1 Traveler
GeorgeC1 Traveler Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 7,041 GA/NC	Both times I have found myself adrift it was in gusty conditions on a mooring ball. I much prefer to anchor if the weather forecast is not good. G

Re: Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB [Re: louismcc] #165380 07/09/2018 04:24 PM 07/09/2018 04:24 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC jho OP Traveler
jho OP Traveler Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC	Originally Posted by louismcc Glad you're safe. We're tucked in a slip at Leverick. We'd planned to leave tomorrow for Anegada, but probably will hang around another day because things appear to be settling down by Wednesday. We were on a ball at Cooper Saturday before the stronger stuff hit and I have to admit I was awake most of the night hoping the ball, my two lines through the pendant, and my cleat hitches would hold. We stayed at Leverick Saturday nighrt! Slip 18 the MarineMax 443. We were scheduled to stay at Leverick last night, but the dock was rough so we decided to leave around noon. Should have stayed !! Got to Peter at 3:15 pm and there were no balls left exept a super-sketchy one on the south side that had a life preserver as the floater for the pendant. So we decided to power it up to CGB and found plenty of balls. but DAM obviously the bad one.... That was hairy scary. I have the Anchor App volume on full on my phone...

Re: Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB [Re: GeorgeC1] #165382 07/09/2018 04:24 PM 07/09/2018 04:24 PM
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC jho OP Traveler
jho OP Traveler Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 17 Charleston, SC	Originally Posted by GeorgeC1 Both times I have found myself adrift it was in gusty conditions on a mooring ball. I much prefer to anchor if the weather forecast is not good. G Noted !

Re: Holy @!#$ close one in storm @ CGB [Re: jho] #166843 07/29/2018 04:15 PM 07/29/2018 04:15 PM
Joined: Jul 2018 Posts: 1 New York J Juventus Member
Juventus Member J Joined: Jul 2018 Posts: 1 New York	Hi. I remember that morning. Was right next to your power cat. It was a close call that day!

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