Author: colin bastable
The Cape.
Sailboat Electrics
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Frank – Birds’ Eye View.
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Quick post
I’ve not posted for a while. I had a guy dive and clean the prop and check the hull.
He said the hull seems clear but the prop needed cleaning. I asked him to plug the heads drain so I could work on the valve whilst Frank is in the water, which he did, but the plug (a bung) did not do the job. So I’ll change the cocks when she is out.
Steve from Jumpier next door has kindly put a timed heater in the quarter berth, near the motor, as we have freezing weather. At time of writing it is -25º F/-4ºC in Corpus!
I visited Frank a couple of weeks back and repaired the sump pump. I have relocated the holding tank, more in-board, so that I have legroom in the berth. I will remake the tank cover I made, to hide the tank.
Hopefully Frank will be ok and will not freeze.
Hurricane Season goes Ελληνικά (Greek).
UPDATE Below @ 10:00 hrs Sept 20 from US Weather Service
Upperdate Below @ 07:00 hrs Sept 21.
It is still September – 20th today, and already the publicists at the weather forecasters have run out of letters of the alphabet. For some reason, the meteorological alphabet runs from A to T. So rather than use the Japanese model and number storms, they went Greek for “the second time since the ’50s” That’s so we blame it on #climatechange. Right. Storm Beta is this week’s concern.
So here we are again, checking on Frank. Last night was quite cool, so I slept well. The Marina had emailed that they were going to close off the cap park and vehicle access to the piers at 9am. So I moved the truck last night.
Woke to a beautiful morning with a cooling breeze and some haze. And an email saying that pier access is now open until Midday. Here’s why:
Hopefully, Beta will keep nudging North West.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s 2,000.
TS Beta, 07:00 CST, September 21 2020. Should be ok.
Hurricane Season 2020 – August
08.22.2020 @ 22:00 CDT Update
Hopefully we are spared…
8.22.2020 07:45 CDT Update.
“A lot of people are going to be impacted by rainfall and storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico,” according to the National Weather Service.
Two hurricanes have never appeared in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, according to records going back to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.
The last time two tropical storms were in the Gulf together was in 1959, he said.”
The tropical storms are forecast to meet in the Gulf on Tuesday.
Early Saturday, Laura was centered about 150 miles southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. Marco was east of the Yucatan Peninsula.
8.22.2020 Update. I’m aboard Frank.
Hmmm. Laura and Marco are on a hot date. Will Laura pull Marco NE, or push Marco SW, or will Marco pull Laura SW or push Laura NE? Or what?
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8.19.2020 – Another incoming…
