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We did ok...one corner of our patio is damaged. Lots of large limbs Boat is just fine. We had a negative surge the entire time. Many of...

Getting good gusts. Monitoring the boat via wifi cameras. Surge is still negative in Tarpon Springs.

A lot of flashy graphics that often conflict. I keep my eye on raw number predictions and current measurements to weed out or fine tune...

yes, Tarpon Springs is actually outside the cone now and surge is predicted to be nominal or negative. I really hope this storm weakens...

I wish you guys the best. Batten down the hatches.

The hell with it....lol. Too many other things to do that are higher priority.

Boat prep is done. Batteries are topped off to 100% via generator today while I was prepping since shore power is still out. This time I...

The serious simple answer is to go to the Tampa Airport and park the car in short term parking on the second or above level away from...

Perfectly laid out. And it can be even worse when storms slide up this coast from the south along the shore. In my case, having just...

Jeez...all the tracks lead right to my front door.....

Neither the Epoch Essentials IP54 nor the Li time 460 IP65 are waterproof. Both have a level of "splash resistance". Both cases are...

Caprail often covers the hull to deck joint, which is often fairly ratty looking. I had my caprails encapsulated in fiberglass and...

@richardshulman Lots of ways to approach it for sure. What I decided to do is this. Replace house AGM bank with 2 x 460Ah LiFePO4 12v...

Repeat after me. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries (which are the kind used as house batteries in a boat) are not the same lithium...

As some might know, we bought psneeld's Albin 40 a few years back. The more we used it and the more I dug into it, the more we...