Interesting evening yesterday. Hail storm came through where we were anchored. Heavy rain, thunder and only a little bit of lightning with 1/4" stones. 70 knot gusts reported, though I doubt the gusts exceeded 50 knots where we were anchored, though Jill thinks that the gusts weren't under 180. No record for us as one year in Charleston we had 3/4" stones for about 1/2 hour. Times like that make us glad that we have a roof over our heads. Rudy and Jill Jacksonville, Fl Briney Bug- a 34 foot sail-assisted trawler 850-832-7748

We got pounded by the same storm that shattered the Dauphin Island sailing regatta yesterday afternoon, and I wonder if Rudy and Jill experienced was associated with our 5 PM CDT storm. Luckily for Jim and us, our two boats were safely inside the Palafox Street Marina breakwater in downtown Pensacola. Two nights previously we had been anchored on the eastern edge of Mobile Bay on a proposed trip toward Biloxi, BUT we decided the weather was not conducive to wandering out into Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound and elected to retreat eastward to safer harbor. I was thus puzzled to hear that a major sized sailing regatta was upon the waters of Mobile Bay. Rich Gano Calypso (GB-CL42 Hull 295) Panama City, FL > Interesting evening yesterday. Hail storm came through where we were > anchored. Heavy rain, thunder and only a little bit of lightning with 1/4" > stones. 70 knot gusts reported, though I doubt the gusts exceeded 50 knots > where we were anchored,

After reading the reports on the deaths and injured I was amazed that the regatta hadn't been cancelled prior to boats entering the bay. Someone, no All of them should have understood the danger that these predicted storms presented. Absolute negligence! Tom Bresnahan Sent from my iPad > On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Rich Gano via Trawlers-and-Trawlering <trawlers@lists.trawlering.com> wrote: > > We got pounded by the same storm that shattered the Dauphin Island sailing > regatta yesterday afternoon, and I wonder if Rudy and Jill experienced was > associated with our 5 PM CDT storm. Luckily for Jim and us, our two boats > were safely inside the Palafox Street Marina breakwater in downtown > Pensacola. Two nights previously we had been anchored on the eastern edge > of Mobile Bay on a proposed trip toward Biloxi, BUT we decided the weather > was not conducive to wandering out into Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound > and elected to retreat eastward to safer harbor. I was thus puzzled to hear > that a major sized sailing regatta was upon the waters of Mobile Bay. > > > Rich Gano > Calypso (GB-CL42 Hull 295) > Panama City, FL > > > >> Interesting evening yesterday. Hail storm came through where we were >> anchored. Heavy rain, thunder and only a little bit of lightning with 1/4" >> stones. 70 knot gusts reported, though I doubt the gusts exceeded 50 knots >> where we were anchored, > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change email address, etc) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

According to the papers and TV interviews available online, it is apparent that no one checked the weather forecast or took such an elemental precaution as looking at weather radar (there were several comments to the effect that the weather was great when it started), otherwise the event would have been cancelled. But you know how these club regattas aren't something to be cancelled at the last minute; after all, everyone was there ready to sail! Sounds like gross negligence to me! <><><><><><><><><><><><>Mozilla Thunderbird<><><><><><><><><><> Bob McLeran and Judy Young Manatee Cove Marina MV Sanderling Patrick Air Force Base DeFever 41 Trawler Melbourne, Florida Blog: http://mvsanderling.net/Blog Web: http://cruising.mvsanderling.net/ On 4/26/2015 10:22 PM, Tom Bresnahan via Trawlers-and-Trawlering wrote: > After reading the reports on the deaths and injured I was amazed that the regatta hadn't been cancelled prior to boats entering the bay. Someone, no All of them should have understood the danger that these predicted storms presented. Absolute negligence! >