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Well it was now confirmed that Arthur would make landfall in Halifax as a cat 1 or post tropical storm so we began to prepare Rose Lee for some big wind. we added one extra set of 3/4 inch bridles covered with fire hose to guard against chafe which we ran through my bow roller (after removing the anchor) which seems to keep the boat from sailing at the mooring that gave us almost 50,000 lbs of breaking strength providing they all held. After securing these to our two bow cleats we then ran second of 5/8 lines through their eyes and back to my mid-ship cleats in case a cleat let go. We then removed the sails, dodger, bimini and full enclosure and stored everything below. After we completed the preparations we then made a video of everything we had done for the insurance company just in case. It sounds like we over prepared but a few hours on a Friday seemed like a good investment to us (after all this is our dream boat and future retirement home). Now we just had to wait for the wind. We finished our preparations on Friday and the storm was coming in on Saturday, its always surprising looking around at other boats, some owners took precautions while others never came down to their boats at all. The wind came as predicted on Saturday and it really piped up to about 60 knots in the mooring field. I spent the day at the club helping fend boats off the marina, adjusting spring lines and fenders to prevent damage. Only one boat broke free and two boats lost their genoa's so not too bad for a major system I think even this damage could have been prevented. As far as Rose Lee goes everything went well until the storm surge and wind peaked..... and then she started dragging. We were pretty helpless because it wasn't safe to attempt getting out to the boat so we watched and waited. Rose Lee stopped dragging after moving about 100 feet whew.... These mooring are 2000lb of concrete which are sunk into a mud bottom and have never dragged with much larger boats then Rose Lee. A Tartan 4600 next to me also moved about a 100 feet. No harm done this time and boy we were sure glad when the wind and tide started dropping. This was no fun but all of our lines held and we zero chafe and no damage so this was a good day.
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