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Took a few picsfrom Palm Beach. Wish I had an Apache :evilb:

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Nice Photo's To Bad It's Not From Your Boat :)














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2007 John Boat With 5 H.p. Brigg's

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Looks like typical NY/NJ weather.

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What it's doing is ruining my holiday weekend! :mad: :mad:

I've seen those grey skys for 2 weeks now...do we live in Seattle? :rolleyes:

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Aint that the truth, I visited my girl in the city last weekend and it was cold and rainy all weekend. Hope it gets better
Jr.

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just get the Thunder and have the same fun with less cost :cool:

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My feelings exactly :mad:

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They were calling for eight to ten foot waves here off Daytona today.

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I'm sure some OSO members are thrilled about that. :D They know who they are, you know the ones that take the boat out in 10ft Seas and say they want more ....... Please don't forget your camera this time out :evilb: :evilb:

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You'll never catch me saying I want to run in ten foot seas. I want to run away from it as far as I can get. I wouldn't get on a cruise ship in ten foot seas.

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I guess all the FOUNTAINS will be out there playing :rolleyes: :evilb: :

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...d.php?t=138587

:rolleyes: :D :evilb: :evilb:

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37' Active Thunder would be eating that up! Pat said they went on a sea trial yesterday, and they came back in early since the water was too docile.

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This was New Jersey this morning! :eek:

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now that don't look like fun :eek:

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The funny thing is those pics were from this morning, the seas have been building all day long. Below is the current weather report::
STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EDT SATURDAY

OVERNIGHT
E WINDS 35 TO 45 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 KT...BECOMING
SE 25 TO 35 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 KT LATE. SEAS 14 TO 19 FT.RAIN WITH ISOLATED TSTMS. VSBY 1 NM OR LESS.

SAT
SE WINDS 25 TO 30 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 KT...BECOMING S 15
TO 20 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 10 TO 15 FT...SUBSIDING TO 7 TO
10 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. A CHANCE OF TSTMS IN
THE MORNING.

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Here on Cobb Island, MD......The island is closed....there is 6 feet of water before the bridge....no one on or off since about 5:30pm today. Bill barely made it here and only because he was in a 4x4 crew cab dually. Capt. John's restaurant is going under water.

We rescued the jet ski from our lift by driving it onto our neighbor's yard that is lower than ours and then pushing the trailer under the jet ski and winching it up on the trailer....dragging it to our property and then using a friends Explorer the rest of the way. We were afraid the dually would be too heavy for the wet ground.

Our dock is slowly being destroyed. We are loosing the top boards. The stairs are already gone. I already saw an upside down boat about 13 feet go under our dock....scared the crap out of me. I was so paralized...I didn't get a picture. Several trees have come down on the island....but we still have power. We took some pitcures that I will work on downloading. The ramp where we launch the Fountain is more under water than we have ever seen it.

High tide was a little while ago. We have seen a friends dock destroyed....we will have a lot of clean up on the island tomorrow. Doesn't look like anyone will be leaving by land any time soon.

Southern Maryland got hit hard.

Hope this finds everyone safe.
Patti and Bill

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So you are one of the short list for the 43. sure is funny that a lot of Fountian guys are comeing over to A.T. these days. :cool: gee I just can't imagine why :rolleyes: can't wait to see it and you will have a blast building it with Pat :cool:

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I better go down and check on the boat. The electric is f'ed up and my lift isn't working, I hope it's high enough.

We had the power go on and of at least 5 times since late last night and I have a bunch of branches down in my back yard. It's not really a steady wind at my house but there are some big gusts. I'm sure the wind is steady down by the beach, I'll take a camera with me.

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I have been out in some stupid seas in the apache and she just ran her ace off! Just cant get too much speed cause you are airborne so much. Maxed out around 55-58 in some 8-10 footers about 3 months ago. Came home with not a scratch on her either, worst that happened is the nose tank fuel fill cap flipped up so I had to send Mike up there in rolling seas with no bow rail to close it. That was bad, almost went over twice.
This was the extent of the damage here in Palm beach for this particular storm.
I will say this, I did board up the house since Wilma kicked my royal ace last year and the fear of having more windows blown out and extensive damage and knowing the weather people do their best but just cant forecast these things right I felt it was the responsible thing to do to board up the house for that "just in case" scenario.
Im glad it went weak in the last few hours and we got away with just this.
I have one flood light that broke off the mounting on the one corner of my house, and a broken latch on my gate to my back yard, all in all about 8 bucks worth of parts to repair everything from this storm. Far cry from the 74 grand from last year.
Hope everyone else faired well too!
J

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Panther if you can, please take some pics of the reported 19-20ft waves.

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If this is true Pat will be swumped with orders becouse their are 211 Fountians for sale now in the classifieds :D

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well I think thats 3 down and there may be one more from up here in N.Y. lots of orders are a good thing. maybe they are just sick seeing there boat go by time after time or of have'n the top of the bolsters at there knees. :eek:

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For NJ they say Monday should be mostly Sunny with clouds. That looks like the best day to try and go out. I feel the swells will still be here though. Probably the best bet will take a ride up the Hudson or to the sand pit on the Sound. I only have a 28 Pantera so I will probably go around Statin island and come out at the Statue of Liberty. No way I could go through the mess you have posted.

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With regards to the mess posted above and whats going on today even the Apaches are staying home :evilb: The only one running today is Bob in his Sunsation. :drink:

Monday looks good ..................

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Lets get this right,
Apaches stay home for other reasons NOT because of rough water!!!!

Chizeled in stone!!!!

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Sitting here in the Marina, Dont ask me why? No one coming in to look at boats today. we have 2 to 3ft rollers in the lagoon behind us, I am watching some of the boats moored across the lagoon they are all over the place. spent have of the morning chasing around lawn furniture. :eek:

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Beach Bob get some good pics for us will ya? :eek: :rolleyes:

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Well this morning's damage report....part of the dock is missing and the bulkhead has been partially washed away. Canvas on the Sea Ray has torn. Lots of branches and leaves down. Going out to start the clean up.

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Unfortunately, no Apaches out there today. It's howling pretty good, the waves would be bigger but the wind is blowing the tops off them. :eek: Here's a little video from an hour ago. http://media.putfile.com/TS-Ernesto

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Tell it like it is Jay :drink: :evilb: :evilb:

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A little too much sun in the Sunshine State, Ya Think! :rolleyes: :D :evilb: :evilb:

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Casino, did you go down to Atlantic Highlands yesterday?? Pretty interesting! :eek:

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I think we lost about 50-100 ft. of beach.