It
is incredibly frustrating to be "stuck" in a bay when you want to be
moving. More so when it is raining all day long and you can't get outside to get a few things done. So tonight I thought I would show you all how we make our decisions to
move or not to move. We start by looking at the National Oceanic Athmospheric
Administration or NOAA for short. Today they gave us a small craft advisory as
did the weather undergroud web site, but they show it in RED
Then
we check out a few charts that have pictures because we don't have to
read and well... they are worth a thousand words!
This
one from Passage weather shows winds up to 20 knots blowing south as does the
Windalert web site.
The funny little arrows point to the wind direction and the
little bars on the bottom represent wind speed, so ½ bar is 5 knots, full bar
is 10 knots, and two bars is 20 knots etc... These map shows 20 knots in the
water and 5 to 10 knots on land. We have more sites we check and some reports on the VHF that we listen to, but when all web sites we check say the same thing, there is no
guess work involved. In this case they all say "stay put at least until
tomorrow am" which is precisely what we will do. We only need 3 hours to
cross Mobile bay, so hopefully tomorrow we get a window of time from 9am to
noon to get across and get into the ICW. Y'all cross your fingers and say a
prayer now.
Tomorrow hopefully we will be in Roberts Bayou. Good night
all.
Hope you made it across the bay and into the ICW.We crossed our fingers and said our prayers. By the way ,thank you for sharing. We currently have wind gusts >100km/hr with sustained winds>60. Didn't want you to be the only ones" bloin' " in the wind. Be safe
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