Hello

The latest storm tracks put Emily pretty much between the Bahamas and the Florida coast on Saturday - give or take a couple hundred miles.

Will someone post here to let us know if Gilligan's Run is still going off? I really really want to do this race but I don't want to do it with a (probable) hurricane on the doorstep :P

Thanks

I talked to Steve Caron this morning and they plan to make the call tomorrow or early Thursday. Fleet 80 is weighing their options at the moment so I have no details regarding any alternate plans or postponing.

Thanks Dave.

Obviously as time goes on we'll have more info on the storm and a better idea of how the conditions will be along the coast. I'm going to go buy water and propane "just in case" later today.

IF Gilligan's is cancelled/postponed, come on over to GYC for club races on Saturday!

I might. If the storm is close enough to cause problems for Gilligans then it might behoove me to stick around the house and make sure **** doesn't fly away :P

Rookie.

why stay in a house thats gonna fly away? go sail!

Swing down to my house, and help me put the friggin shutters up. Then we can all go to the keys once the eye is north of Miami and have the bars all to ourselves!

You're going to shutter up?

You can hardly get permission to go sailing.

Do you think that you can get permission to go drinking?

From Steve Caron:

We will make a decision on Thursday as to what to do. Right now they are calling for a sunny day on the west side of the storm.

Steve Caron

If you need a hall pass to go sailing, what do you call the pass to go drinking in the keys and leaving the kids with mom?

Forrest

A divorce

I'm not going to complain at all - but the storm will probably kick up some knarly surf on the beach.

Something I'm sure is being considered.

si

It's always up to the sailor...but...Looking at the 1-2-3 rule, and knowing the swell is going to be horrible, if it were me, I'd be skipping this one. At the least, those rudders and boards are expensive!

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/083614.shtml?basin?large#contents

Can you clarify what you mean by the "1-2-3 rule" ?

Thank You

Gilligan’s Run is a NO GO for this weekend.

Options:

Steve is willing to still have the party but will need to charge $20 a head and will need a minimum number of people to commit before he pulls the trigger. I'll SPAM the fleet tonight when I get home from work, please respond here or to the email tonight if you are interested.

Rescheduling: Due to many schedule conflicts with the organizer Aug 20 is the only viable date and Steve still has to check some things before he can lock that date in. There are no other dates on the calendar that will work.

I'm down for Aug 20.

Thanks Ding.

Here's a good explanation.
http://www.dockwalk.com/Essentials/HotTopics.aspx?id=33504