Sandy

Here is a video I made of the Hurricane that paid us a visit last week. We knew this thing was coming, and there were plans to get away from it by going back up north to Maine, however our engine was right in the middle of being serviced (half of it wasn't even on the boat)! By the time it was back together it was too late to leave, so we took our medicine and strapped ourselves in.

Top wind speed that we saw was 79.6 knots, that's a tick under 150km/h for you land lubbers! One of the hardest things to do was actually get onto the boat, usually made easy by a passeralle (a 1m wide x 5m long ramp from the back of the boat to the dock). However Hurricane Mode meant we were off the dock a little more, which meant a metre jump onto a boat leaning over and moving in the wind - doesn't sound that hard, but picture being on a car roof driving at 150 clicks and jumping onto another car that is rocking around like it has oblong wheels and being driven by a drunk. Hence the footage of Valentin on his hands and knees about 2/3 into the vid.

Anyway hope you enjoy it!
Jono

Ears: We Were Promised Jetpacks

Hurricane Sandy from Jono Walker on Vimeo.

Here are a bunch of photos I copied from the local news website of us and our neighbours in Newport Shipyard during the storm.

L to R: Hyperion (blurry), Indio, Timoneer, Zefira (us), P2 (foreground) and Sheherezade (covered by P2)

Us and Sheherezade

A New England Weekend

From a few weeks ago now, this is a weekend we had which involved hanging out in Boston on the Saturday day seeing Russell Brand that night. We also got to go to Foxboro's Gillette Stadium to see the New England Patriots play the Arizona Cardinals.

The Pat's had a chance to win the game with a last second field goal attempt, only to miss and leave the 78,000 strong crowd leaving pretty pissed off.

One generalisation that came true through observation at the game is just how fat the American Public seem to be....... generally.

Ears: Seth Sentry

Quincy Markets, Boston

Picnic

Brand's Theatre

Fans coming from everywhere

Yanks don't believe in steps

Gillette Stadium

Brady is pretty popular

Sitting behind these guys, for the game, surprisingly they were the least restless of our section.

Patriot's v Angry Birds it appears.

The set-up for the field goal that Gostkowski missed - useless.