Hurricane a comin

In September we had Draco hauled out had her bottom painted.  We had here hauled out in Arapaho North Carolina at Wayfarers Cove, this is near Oriental North Carolina.  It was skinny water getting back into the cove but we made it in with a north east wind.  Spent time visiting family and friends for a couple weeks in Illinois while this was being done.  I was not living on the boat in the boat yard in rain and 90 degrees.  When we got back around Sept 28th were watching the weather and found that hurricane Joaqin may head this direction.  So we pulled into Northwest Creek Marina in New Bern NC and we docked up here until the hurricane was gone.  We have never been in a hurricane before so we prepped the boat and waited.  We had lots of rain bands go through and some light winds but nothing other than local flooding.  We were lucky that the hurricane turned east out to sea.  We were prepared to evacuate.  The docks flooded over our knees so we had to wade to the boat for 3 days.  There was water in the marina building here about 8 inches for a couple of days and the crew here was right on top of the clean up.  Thank you Northwest staff for making everything easy before and after the storm.  We will be here for another week then we are headed south.  We are meeting up with our buddy boat Spindrift, we will cruise down the coast with them for 6 weeks.  I am sure I will have more to tell once we get out and about again.
As you may remember from my last post that we had ripped our mainsail.  We are anxiously awaiting our new main, in fact it was supposed to ship today.  Keep your fingers crossed.  It has been an expensive summer with getting the bottom painted and a new main.  This week the weather here has been in the 70's and cool at night.  Sunny everyday, you could not ask for better weather for October.  Kooper jumped ship this morning and we found him on the next boat over, silly ole cat,  the boat had floated to far away from the dock he could not get off he was over there throwing a fit.  Joe had to get on the other boat and carry him off. Luckily no one lives on that boat.  We have to keep a better eye on him.  TTFN

Measuring for new main sail