{"id":4496,"date":"2015-05-08T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:57:56","slug":"tropical-storm-ana-shes-in-no-particular-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Ana. She’s in no particular hurry."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday morning and we are motoring up the ICW on our way to St Augustine. where we will spend a day or two. \u00a0Unfortunately, we are still tied to the ICW as it\u2019s just too rough offshore to make a run out in the ocean.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Things are particularly nasty as you get up toward Hatteras with Ana poking along to the NW at only 1kt, a very slow moving storm indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what conditions are alike now off off of Cape Fear (Brenda just loves that name). The winds are running 35-50kts from the NW with gusts to 65, nearly Hurricane strength and it\u2019s kicking up seas to 10-20\u2019 tall. \u00a0Big waves. \u00a0Not a great spot to hang out.\u00a0\u00a0 And, to make matters worse, it\u2019s not clear as to when this will settle down enough to make a run past Hatteras.<\/p>\n

However, Chris Parker, the weather router, believes that that we can jump out from northern FL at some point, perhaps as early as the beginning of the week and begin our run outside. \u00a0Hopefully Hatteras will be settled by late next week, by the time we pass that area.\u00a0 After that, 4-5 days to the CT River.\u00a0 Well, who knows how long it\u2019s going to take. \u00a0 \u00a0What a change from the last two years when I was able to make the run the entire way from the Bahamas in a week. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of spots on the ICW where municipalities make free docks available to visiting boaters and New Smyrna, where we tied up last night, is one of those.\u00a0 The town is lovely and we enjoyed walking around town to get a bit of exercise last night.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Pandora tied up to the free dock and a floating one at that.\u00a0 Notice the davits holding up the dink.\u00a0 That\u2019s the work that was done last week.\u00a0 I really like how they turned out.\u00a0 The yard did a great job.\u00a0 The new logo of the name looks great but it doesn’t show up quite as well as I had hoped on the dark green hull.\u00a0 Oh well, I am not doing it again.\u00a0 At least it\u2019s subtle.\"\"<\/a>This boat has all sorts of electronics and one that is particularly intriguing is satellite weather. \u00a0\u00a0I had some problems getting it to work as it seems that I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0do a\u00a0very good job of reattaching the antennas that I had removed from the arch when the welding was done.\u00a0 However, today, after a few days of tinkering with the antenna (first I had to figure out which of the 5 was the right one) it\u2019s working again.\u00a0 This service shows weather for the entire eastern seaboard in real time.\u00a0\u00a0 It includes rain, waves, wind, lightning strikes (Brenda will particularly enjoy watching that) and a bunch of other data to help us understand what\u2019s going on with the weather ahead of us when we are offshore.\u00a0\u00a0 As I have not yet installed my SSB radio, having this service is particularly useful.\u00a0 This screen shot, cockpit reflections and all, shows how much information it has on the screen.\u00a0 Very cool.\"\"<\/a>Anyway, while the \u201cwhere\u201d we are going is not a question (Connecticut) there’s plenty of doubt about the “when”. \u00a0I guess it all comes down to Ana and what she has in mind.\u00a0 So far, she\u2019s proving to be in no particular rush to get out of the way.\u00a0 \u201cAna!\u00a0 Get a move on. \u201c \u00a0I don\u2019t think she is listening.\u00a0 Women\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday morning and we are motoring up the ICW on our way to St Augustine. where we will spend a day or two. \u00a0Unfortunately, we are still tied to the ICW as it\u2019s just too rough offshore to make a run out in the ocean.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Things are particularly nasty as you get up toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}