{"id":17197,"date":"2011-08-26T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=17197"},"modified":"2011-08-26T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:29:02","slug":"preparing-for-hurricane-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/preparing-for-hurricane-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Hurricane Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Oyster-Bay--West-Harbor-4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oyster-Bay-West-Harbor-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oyster Bay West Harbor 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are anchored in Oyster Bay&#8217;s West Harbor, on Long Island (west coast), getting ready for Irene&#8217;s arrival Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Screen-shot-2011-08-26-at-10.55.14-PM.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-26-at-10.55.14-PM.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screen shot 2011 08 26 at 10 55 14 PM\" width=\"576\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve chatted with our old cruising buddy Ralph Naranjo, who used to hang out here, to get the skinny. Ralph said West Bay and he was right. As you can see above, it \u00a0is protected on all sides, and surprisingly, we have it to ourselves. We&#8217;ve picked out two spots to anchor, depending on wind direction, and surveyed the depths of both. With five foot (1.5m) of draft we have almost all of the Bay from which to choose.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom has good holding (the Rocna anchor stood up to 1800 RPM on both engines in reverse).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Oyster-Bay--West-Harbor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oyster-Bay-West-Harbor1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oyster Bay West Harbor\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will prepare <em>Wind Horse<\/em>, and ourselves, for the excitement. The list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removal and stowing of awnings.<\/li>\n<li>Tying fly bridge table leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Prepping both Fortress anchors with their rodes prelead through the bow fairlead.<\/li>\n<li>Getting anchor chain snubber lines ready.<\/li>\n<li>Removal of plastic wind screens from flying bridge.<\/li>\n<li>Storage of flags.<\/li>\n<li>Securing of engine room tools and gear, as well as basement items.<\/li>\n<li>Checking dinghy lashings.<\/li>\n<li>Fitting storm covers on hatches.<\/li>\n<li>Digging out dive masks.<\/li>\n<li>Running jack stays on deck.<\/li>\n<li>Covering diesel heater exhaust.<\/li>\n<li>Sealing clothes drier exhaust.<\/li>\n<li>Running man lines between interior handrails.<\/li>\n<li>Getting seat belts ready to use.<\/li>\n<li>Charging camera batteries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Oyster-Bay--West-Harbor-6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oyster-Bay-West-Harbor-6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oyster Bay West Harbor 6\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the resident osprey family is out hunting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Oyster-Bay--West-Harbor-5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oyster-Bay-West-Harbor-5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oyster Bay West Harbor 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are anchored in Oyster Bay&#8217;s West Harbor, on Long Island (west coast), getting ready for Irene&#8217;s arrival Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}