Dear Clients:
Last night/early morning Tropical Storm Felix passed just north of Grenada (current advisories at http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200706.html).
During the day yesterday, before Felix was even classified as a depression, the yard crew took the necessary storm preparation procedures, checking and reinforcing straps, checking the chocks, etc. Late last night and through the morning we experienced heavy rains and winds, power is off in many areas of the island including at the boatyard where we are operating on generator power. During the switchover due to the power outage our office server reset itself, resulting in an interruption in our weather station reporting; this has since been restored.
This morning, although we were still under an official TS Warning Advisory, personnel from the yard crew was at the yard assessing the situation. No boats on the hard were damaged. A couple of boats anchored in the bay dragged, among them Fred Thomas’ Apollonia, and Alan Reynolds’ Moondancer. Moondancer suffered minor grounding damages. Please see photos taken this morning in the yard at http://picasaweb.google.com/grenadamarine/TropicalStormFelix?authkey=pere4fm6MYg
Within the next couple of days we will be checking the boats for water ingress, leaks etc. and will advise the relevant boat owners if any issues or problems are found.
Regards,
Raquel Edwards
GM Office
