If you looked at the title of this log and expected tales of 20 foot waves crashing over breakwalls and deafening wind storms than you will be sorely disappointed. In anticipation of the big day we readied the boat, creating a spider web of lines to keep Zenobia from moving too much in the slip. We took the anchor lines and turned them into docklines then we stretched them across the basin and tied a stern line to the docks behind us. We weighed down the lines so that they would drag through the water and be slowed. We took everything off the deck and we battened down the hatches. We bought fresh food in advance so that Adam would still have to eat his vegetables during the storm. We were ready for the worst.
We ended up seeing the “worst” the day or two leading up to Nadine hitting land. We spent about 48 hrs hiding out down below as the wind howled and screeched, and we were rocked around a bit on the swell that came into the marina. But aside from a lot of rain and consistent winds of 30 plus knots, we were fairly comfortable. There wasn’t any damage to the boat or the marina and by the next day the skies were back to being blue. The only casualty seems to be a cockpit cushion, which is missing in action and was possibly carried off and drowned. This cushion may have had a death wish though because it tried to jump out of the cockpit on the way to Sao Jorge.