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Sunday, August 7. 2022

Beautiful squalls

We had three squalls pass over the boat today. Some with thunder and some visible lightning, and some without. I find such storms majestic, dramatic, and exciting. Plus the rain is refreshing.


When I raced sailboats as a lad, I remember times when 20 or 30 boats capsized in a row with their spinnakers up. Drama. 


Here's one of the squalls today, on its way out of otherwise blue skies with fluffy clouds:



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Try that in an open flats skiff with carbon fiber fly rods.
#1 Griff on 2022-08-07 18:48 (Reply)
We had something similar yesterday. I was pulling our trailer on the barren part of the Mogollon Rim in Az. We had two thunderstorms and violent lightening and hail and no place to take cover. We are having lots of rain out here in the Southwest. Everything is greening up. But the storms can be scary especially when your sail (the trailer) is "up".
#2 OneGuy on 2022-08-07 20:58 (Reply)
They are beautiful from afar. Not so much fun if you get caught in one in a small sailboat as happened to me at age 14. I was having a lazy sail on a Chesapeake Bay estuary and didn't pay any attention to the weather on the horizon - until it wasn't on the horizon. Got the sails down during the calm minutes before the squall hit and got blown ashore under bare poles. Minute I hit the beach I buried the anchor in the sand, ran up the beach about 20 yards and flattened myself against the sand. Stayed there for about 20 minutes of thunder and lightning before it passed. Needless to say, it was the last time in my boating history I didn't keep an eye on the weather.
#3 John Fisher on 2022-08-08 10:03 (Reply)
I've been on the water (off and on) since my teens and I have to say that storms still scare the heck out of me. I'm with John Fisher - pretty from afar, but when lightning is lancing down all around my boat with that tall aluminum mast, I am shaking in my pants!

Its nice and safe sailing in a bay, but when you are away from land there is nowhere to run, nowhere to reach... ;->

Fair Winds, Following Seas, and a safe Harbor at journey's end.

Cap'n Jan
#4 TheCaptain on 2022-08-08 20:54 (Reply)
Different at night ?? :)
#4.1 u.k.(us) on 2022-08-11 15:31 (Reply)

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