FMI:
https://towndock.net/tropical/atlantic-tropical-storm-outlook
However, the Pacific is responding to tsunami threat today due to an 8.8 quake off the coast of Russia.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/russia-japan-tsunami-earthquake-hnk-intl-07-30-25
Seismic Activity elsewhere…
Oddly, this is happening in Yellowstone National Park.
Dear friends of ours doing their Loop had this poem to share of a significant tragic event in their lives, a fire devastated their home and business. But their response to the tragedy included the purchase of their beautiful vessel and new home called Lemonade!
They finally broke free to begin their Great Loop adventure earlier this year, and are currently westbound on the Trent Severn Waterway in Ontario!
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IT CAME ONE NIGHT
It came one night
On the 27th of July
What a frightful sight
That awful orange sky
It was the last time I would ever see
That which stood there, will no longer be.
It devoured with a hunger so great
Burning our beautiful north state
Blazing, roaring, trees snapping
Scorching, eating, houses collapsing
Sirens sounding, breaking ground
Men running, sweat dripping down
This hungry beast is awake
The destruction it will make
The painful cries
The many sighs
What a frightful sight
It came one night
On the 27th of July
That awful orange sky
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Shelly has been monitoring the boat via our streaming cameras this week.
We should be back on board by 9:00pm after a drive from Savannah’s SAV.
Addendum August 5, 2025
Black box covers the gas tank so heavy rains don’t go in through the vent cap.
Above, you can see the end of a fender whip which could potentially combine with other debris to cause a clog.
Fortunately we were aboard.
Unfortunately we did not know the aft deck was flooding, and we also did not know that water was making its way into our aft bilge thru a lazarette cover.
Fortunately, we installed a bilge alarm in the aft bilge!
Water WAS gushing down the port walkway from up forward. There were several inches of water on the aft deck by the [clogged] drain.
I moved the boat hook and broom handles from the corner. Water started to forcefully exit the scupper.
The upper “sun deck” drains down inside that vertical support pipe, so keeping that scupper and the drains clear is also critical.
After a big wax and detailing job, double check for rags and paper towels that may be hiding. They could easily be washed down a drain hole and cause a clog.
Aboard Gypsy, a trailer-able, comfortable Cutwater. Very nice inside!!!
They are heading north from here at Jekyll Island to their home port in Williamsburg VA.
They hope to meet more Loopers! So don’t be bashful if they are in your area. They ARE on Nebo.
Carolyn & Bill with me; Jekyll Is. bridge in the background.
Check out their blog:
https://gypsylooper.blogspot.com
Scroll down to 6/11/2023 and everything that follows to read about Bill’s favorite post and some of his childhood memories on the rivers around NYC.
Normally hurricanes early in the season start near Africa, cross the Atlantic, and forecasters try to figure out if and where they will make landfall.
But currently there seems to be a “home grown” system called “Invest 92” growing from right here in the southeastern US.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Friday July 4 2025
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico):
Near the Southeastern United States (Invest 92): Showers and thunderstorms have increased in association with an area of low pressure located about 100 miles off the northeast Florida coast. Environmental conditions are forecast to be marginally conductive for further development, and a short-lived tropical or subtropical depression could form late today or on Saturday while the system drifts northward. This low is expected to move inland over the southeastern U.S. Saturday night or early Sunday. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall is possible across portions of west-central and southwestern Florida through early Saturday, and across coastal sections of the Carolinas beginning later on Saturday. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system later today.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…60 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…medium…60 percent.
Forecaster: John Cangialosi, National Hurricane Center/Beven
Longer term, nothing is happening yet from across the pond near Africa where trouble usually starts in early season.
As for my direct observations, 9:00am here at Jekyll Island GA, there is a fair amount of blue sky, but mostly cloudy (mixed types), calm winds and sea.
Addendum:
I explained to them, “You’re not supposed to feed them; that attracts them to humans! It is probably illegal too.”
Their dad thanked me.
Help in properly identifying the species here:
https://shellerina.com/2024/10/14/species-id/
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Locals tell me the gators are actually more afraid of us than we are of them. So, the gator I saw *may* stay clear of a group of kayakers like this… (but not if humans FEED them!!!)
Sheree Amore will stay behind, next to us, as they fly direct fr Miami to Lisbon Portugal on Wednesday.
We shared some of Shelly’s home made pizZA (“ZA” for short with them Monday night.