The buoy off of Clearwater Beach recorded maximum gusts of 48 - 53 mph over the past couple of days. I just got back from checking my boat out (she's in mast up storage at the Clearwater Community Sailing Center.) She seems to have survived all right. The pen (fenced area) that we keep our boats in was under water and I have been told at least one cat broke loose and was floating around. While I was there, trucks were busy taking the sand out of the pen and parking lot and putting it back on the beach.

The tenders took my boat off her trailer early on and tide her to the fence. The lid to my trailer box blew off, but nothing inside it blew away. Oddly, my cat-trax were missing. It was too dark for me to look around for them.


Daniel T.
Taipan F16 - USA 213