Well, she's big and the locals have been watching her, now she has a name! She was originally 2000 miles wide I think they said. She's north of Fiji right now I think and anticipated to go further west of us than initially projected. The wind prediction Courage pulled up this morning was for a whopping 117 miles per hour four days from now, that coincides with reports of it moving west, so we'll have to keep watching to know for sure. The further west he goes, the less wind we get. Today we've been watching the charter companies take the sails off of all of their boats in preparation. We have been cleaning up our construction, removing any "loose" items, and now they are installing the solar panels, then will get those screwed into place. We will have to take down the front tarp and the tent on the front trampoline has to come in. The back tarps will come down if projections are over about 50 knots. If those come down, we do have a couple of open holes in our construction that will need to be boarded up or something, nothing too big and they would be facing backward to the wind flow, so it wouldn't be terrible. Anyway, interesting weather for now, getting lots of great stuff done that we needed to get done anyway. Should be an interesting weekend, then we're off to the islands!!
Shannon
No comments:
Post a Comment