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Was anyone else out on the water Sunday, in Boston?   Message List  
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Re: [MassBaySailors] Yesterday's Winds and Sea state

Jim - where you coming into Boston harbor? What time were you coming
in? I saw a boat a few miles off shore that looked to have a loose jib
flapping about, maybe that was you?

--- In MassBaySailors@yahoogroups.com, <jamesclaffey@...> wrote:
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> We headed back from P-town yesterday. What a ride! Made about 6.5
kts. Fortunately we were on a beam reach all the way up to Minot's
ledge. Then we turned up wind, while reefing the jib the furler broke.
Had some fun wrestling the jib in a 20 kt breeze.
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> Jim
> T-28
> Flying Cloud
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:50 pm

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Just curious what wind speed you measured, and what you thought wave height was, outside Boston harbor yesterday (Sunday). Thanks! Phillip...
Phillip
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Jul 16, 2007
5:48 pm

http://www.sailflow.com/windandwhere.iws?regionID=101&siteID=1973&Isection=Forecast+Graphs http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44013 Previous...
Bill Scanlon
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Jul 16, 2007
6:19 pm

I don't know where they were measuring winds, but I was running at hull speed w/ just a reefed main. I was clocking over 30 knots relative. At one point...
richard usen
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Jul 16, 2007
6:25 pm

Hi, Well I am GUESSING that these wind measurements are at (snapshot) 1 point (1 second or 1 reading) at each :50 min of each hr ... obviously missing (not...
Bill Scanlon
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Jul 16, 2007
6:56 pm

Yup. At the dock, I needed the engine to hook up the spring line. I wasn't strong enuf to do it one handed. ... From: MassBaySailors@yahoogroups.com...
richard usen
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Jul 16, 2007
7:52 pm

Hi Dick, Station 44013, is what NOAA refers to as the Boston Buoy. Not to be confused with the "B" Buoy, it is labeled "Bf" and is the last of the traffic...
Richard
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Jul 16, 2007
7:32 pm

Although I guessed these reading might be a "snapshot" a second guess might be that these are average wind speeds over the previous hour and the highest wind...
Bill Scanlon
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Jul 16, 2007
6:59 pm

We headed back from P-town yesterday. What a ride! Made about 6.5 kts. Fortunately we were on a beam reach all the way up to Minot's ledge. Then we turned up...
jamesclaffey@...
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Jul 16, 2007
7:20 pm

Jim - where you coming into Boston harbor? What time were you coming in? I saw a boat a few miles off shore that looked to have a loose jib flapping about,...
Phillip
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Jul 16, 2007
7:53 pm

I was coming up from Plymouth yesterday in a Hunter 33. We recorded wind speeds of 20-30 knots with gusts up to 37 knots. We were on a broad reach much of the...
Doug Giuliana - SailT...
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Jul 16, 2007
11:05 pm

Phillip, It was about 11:00am, a couple of miles east of Hardings ledge. I was beat after that and dropped the sails, motored the rest of the way into...
jamesclaffey@...
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Jul 17, 2007
2:22 pm

http://www.hoopersyachts.com/index.cfm?IM=FrameSet&PageID=40 http://www.layline.com/ http://www.sailboatstuff.com/glos_d_g.html#f ...
Bill Scanlon
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Jul 17, 2007
2:56 pm

Hi Philip, I was crewing on a 34' Pearson Sunday out of Beverly. It got very gusty w/waves (guessing 2-4' w/30+k gusts) there. Heard it was howling in...
terry regan
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Jul 16, 2007
6:47 pm

I was in the outer harbor sunday afternoon. Mostly under reefed main and reefed jib. On my Catalina 36, it was a pretty comfortable ride. At one point on a...
John DeMambro
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Jul 16, 2007
11:42 pm
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