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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
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03/02/2018 07:01 AM
03/02/2018 07:01 AM
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GlennA
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I have been watching it all week routing Catatonic's trip down from Provo. The Nor'easter beating up the northeast is setting up a big swell system. Looks to hit the islands late Saturday with peak late Sunday night into Monday. Up to 30' on the reef north shore of Anegada. Direction is due north to a bit west so the north shore of Tortola will be extremely dangerous. Considerably less in the channel but still not advisable to be out in it.
Things should get back closer to normal by late Tuesday.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
[Re: StormJib]
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03/02/2018 02:02 PM
03/02/2018 02:02 PM
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Note the west wind in the forecast. Note the clearly forecasted sudden switch in swell. We were once in Salt Whistle Bay, Mayreau when suddenly in the middle of the day swell showed up. Most of the boats in the first row ended up on the beach in a near instant. An after dark switch like that in Cane Garden or White Bay would be catastrophic. Everyone should visit once, or twice...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFcgYujUYk
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
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03/03/2018 08:03 PM
03/03/2018 08:03 PM
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snowdog
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A quick view of the Soggy Dollar webcam show several boats moored in White Bay tonight (Sat). I hope for their sake, the really big swells don't arrive overnight and ruin a vacation...
s/v Snow Dog - Leopard 46
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
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#156003
03/04/2018 12:38 PM
03/04/2018 12:38 PM
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Kmon
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A quick view of the Soggy Dollar webcam show several boats moored in White Bay tonight (Sat). I hope for their sake, the really big swells don't arrive overnight and ruin a vacation... The worst is forecast for Sunday night, Monday, and Monday night. North facing beaches will see big impact! https://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=amz715
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
[Re: StormJib]
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03/04/2018 08:42 PM
03/04/2018 08:42 PM
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BaardJ
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We started out from St Thomas on our Saba 50 on the 21st and had ENE 20-28 kts with gusts to 31 kts as we motored to Maho Bay on day 1 and Prickly Pear Island, North Sound on day 2, followed by two lovely days of ENE 16-20 winds for the sail to Anegada on day 4 and back to VG on day 5, then a pleasant ENE 13-15 kt downwind run to the Rhone and The Indians on day 6. Day 7 was a calm NE 4-6 kts as we motored to Ensenada Honda, Culebra. Winds stayed light on Day 8 as we visited Culebrita and Bahia de Almodovar. Day 9 was NE 8 kts for a motorsail to Bahia de la Chiva, Vieques. Seeing the longterm forecast, we decided to head back to St John on day 10 (Friday) and motorsailed in ENE 5-10 kts to Salt Pond Bay which also gave us an excellent view of the Full Moon rising. Been there since as we wait for this weather to pass. I saw perhaps one boat at Lameshur and Salt Pond Bay last Sunday - now the 5 mooring balls in Salt Pond have been full since Saturday with several boats passing by looking for a mooring. AIS shows several boats at Lameshur.
Winds went South yesterday and we had some chop in the bay. With the southerly wind shift the water temperature in Salt Pond Bay peaked at 84.4°F, about 2°F higher than on Friday or today when the winds started veering from the West.
Feeling a bit stir-crazy tied to the same mooring for 2-1/2 days with another day to go, but glad we were at least able to cover 275 nm in the first 10 days and catch & release 11 fish (6 pain-in-the-butt lure chewing barricuda, 2 cero mackeral, 3 bonito). This has also given us time to tend to some boat projects.
Heard on the VHF that a mooring ball at Lameshur broke loose with a boat attached yesterday. No details other than a bad shackle on the mooring. The boat is apparently safe.
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
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03/05/2018 10:11 AM
03/05/2018 10:11 AM
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Re: Swell NOW and for the Week
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03/06/2018 07:27 PM
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BaardJ
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Had beautiful clear skies as we flew out of STT today and it was amazing to see how the swell had churned up the waters surrounding St Thomas. The water was a light green color from the tons of suspended sand and looked like we were flying over the shallow waters of the Bahamas. It extended many miles from St Thomas and there was a very clear demarcation with the 'clean' blue ocean water. We clearly saw this effect as we motored along the south shore of St John this morning with the water instantly going from light green to deep blue as we crossed Pillsbury Sound.
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