So everyone wants to know…how bad is it? The storm, the weather, the waves, and the wind it’s all over the news. Right now we are just getting lots of rain and wind here, mostly rain. When we saw what was coming we decided we’d stay put. We haven’t even left Port Jefferson. It does seem as though all of the rain will never stop. It doesn’t help that some of the deck fittings that had to be redone didn’t get their final allotted doses of caulk in the rush to leave Maine and so our decks (freshly re-cored and re-laminated) are leaking in strategically obnoxious places.

We really don’t have too many spots but they do seem to be in places that are designed to most annoy. There’s one over Paul’s V-Berth that seems to be coming in from the chain locker that is probably from the new anchor windlass. Another one is over the pull out settee in the salon, of course. Nicole’s stateroom is dry and there don’t appear to be any leaks over the main cabin bedding but we do have one just over the little rug on the way to the aft head; that one was not fun to find this morning!

All things considered, the rain won’t kill us and the moisture will eventually have to end. We are hoping that will be tomorrow…, which I think will still be before we all grow mold. That puts us on course to leave here on Monday almost a week after we arrived. Much later than we anticipated but considering that the winds even where we are on the edge of the storm have topped 37 knots in the harbor and the waves “outside” are being reported at 15-20 I think we’ve made the right decision.

When the Coast Guard contacted us on the VHF night before last and told us that they were coming into the harbor to anchor and asked us where we might thought would be a good spot to anchor I took it that it was R-O-U-G-H outside. I don’t think the Coast Guard usually does that. I’m pretty sure they’d usually go back to their home dock. They were also reporting a sunken ship in the entrance of a Connecticut side harbor. They just left this morning and they were about twice our size. More news soon.