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Live in Valencia now...

That may be true about most of them, Not Skip D. upstanding dude... i'm guessing he was against all the post regatta antics.

I have two thoughts, on Wednesday eve/night, there was an eyewall replacement cycle starting, with the eye loosing shape and starting to wobble off center. At the same time there were 2 or so injections of dry air bands . The storm seemed to lose intensity and grow in diameter. On thursday, the storm track progress slowed from ~15 kts to ~5kts. This caused a churning in place of the surface and upwelling of some colder water, further degrading the storm. Either of these scenarios is difficult to forecast in advance, other to say it's a possibility. The NHC would rather error on alarmist side.

new flag though, so it's either old vid or someone replaced the flag... by the looks of the current Sat images, the platform should be experiencing much worse conditions than shown. i'm guessing archived vid rolling.

Looks like the storm has come to a stop! right in the Carolina Pocket. Ouch...

Ole Betsy Ross is hang'n on... figure a couple more hrs and she'll make it.

anyone for an over under on the flag making it through? i'm taking the under...

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41013 here's the Frying pan tower Noaa data. let's see if she makes it through...

So say i'm out fishing and i don't want to catch a Sub hiding from a hurricane, how deep should my hook be??

Can you grace us with a number? or is that top secret...

How shallow? That's interesting the surface conditions propagating below sea level

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Looking like Flo's planning to inhale the remains of the gulf TD before she visits the states.

Anyone notice the shark under her left breast?? i didn't think so. She is stunning...

T, As important as learning your boat and how to sail her, is the weather. you should make it a daily habit (whether you're sailing that day or not) to know what's going on in the atmosphere. what's the pressure, wind direction/speed, fronts approaching, what do the clouds look like, are they changing. Immerse yourself in weather information, evening news, web sites. etc... you will find the more comfortable and better you are knowing what the weather is doing the more you will enjoy your sailing future...