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Video and Images

Below is a 3m24s video that I took in the late morning and early afternoon on Saturday at the height of the hurricane.

• Member Chris Davey also took some pictures and video linked here.
• Member Dan Stanford also took some spectacular images that I have added to our photo gallery.
• Angela Brown also took pictures of the rescue of the boat that broke loose (sorry, I don't know its name).

Weather Stats

Below are some graphs of wind speed and direction recorded by our roof top weather station. They cover the period from 8am to 1:15pm (a which time the power went off in Halifax where the computer recording the data was located) at 5 minute intervals.

The maximum sustained winds were in the 50 knot range. The maximum recorded gust was 64 knots, one knot over hurricane force!

A better indicator of the power of the storm may be the 10-minute averages which peaked just under 40 knots from about 11:30 to noon.

The wind direction was pretty steady out of the SSE until about 11am, then it swung around to the southwest, at which time the long fetch across the bay caused waves to build up. This presented some problems in the mooring field.

Mooring Field Incidents

After the wind swung around to the southwest and the waves built up, one boat broke both its bridles and went ashore. Several other boats broke one or both bridles. In one case, a boat was only hanging on bay an extra "safely" line. Quick acting club members rescued the boat that broke loose and put it on another mooring and shored up the boats that lost one or more bridles. All bridles that broke were the newer "pink" ones, which either broke both due to chafing or possible due to shock loading.

Thanks

On behalf of all mooring field users, thanks to those who watched over the boats for trouble during the storm and responded quickly when needed.