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How did a Weems and Plath Barometer save the boat?
Published: March 13, 2013Posted in: Boating, Navigation, Tips
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Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Cathie Trogdon has lived in the Annapolis, Maryland area for 17 years. She loves being on the water, playing tennis, and also enjoys visiting her two children in Washington State.
As the primary writer of the Weems & Plath and Conant blog, she has a unique vantage point as wife of the president, Peter Trogdon. Having held various roles in the company including VP of Marketing and Public Relations for 10 years and product assembly in the Production Department, she also accompanies Peter on the many adventures aboard Bee Weems, the company yacht. This broad experience gives Cathie intimate knowledge of individual products as well as an understanding of the history, strategy and aspirations of the company.
Cathie’s passion for learning, travel and finding the good in every day experiences gives her plenty of material to write about.
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I, too, have heard the “I don’t sail in fog” snuff about radar. Fog can come in quickly in places like New England, but my worst fog was cruising down the coast of NJ. I was grateful for radar that day, and other days that followed.
Prior to that day, NJ used to be my home waters and I had no trouble avoiding fog as a daysailor, but heading south from RI for the winter was another matter. You only have to need radar once to know it was worth the money. I would never coastal cruise without it.
Thanks for the interesting post. I’d like to know the date when Jeff and Jean experienced the storm. It sounds like our typical Florida summer afternoon storms that can form into a line along the sea breeze front and propagate quickly out to sea, an event that wouldn’t make the barometer drop so far in advance. But, if it was a squall line out ahead of a cold front, that would be different.
I am an advance-degreed meteorologist working on the east coast of Florida, a sailor, a lightning-safety advocate, and interested in boater education. I have not cruised on open water, though, and would like to learn more about weather experiences of such cruisers. Knowing the day of this incident will allow me to look at the archived data to see what was happening that day.
Thanks for your interest, we always enjoy talking to meteorologists and learning new things about weather. The event described in our story occurred on the west side of Mayaguana in the Bahamas in April of 2003, we think it was on April 24th. The storm moved West to East at about 35knots (measured its speed with our radar). Very heavy rain and 55kn winds on leading edge and 35 sustained in the body. Not much lightning.
Re: open ocean squalls. Being native Floridian and having lived 30years in the Tampa Bay area, we’re used to our summer afternoon “microhurricanes” and intense lightning. Interesting enough, we’ve found open water thermal squalls to not pack much punch (only 35-45 max winds vs 60-80) and little lightning compared to home. We’re very interested in hearing any insights you have as to what the system in our story was!