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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
 
By Crystal Thune
 

In many ways, preparing for a storm on a boat is very similar to how sports producers get ready for live events. There are only a few known variables going in and what transpires is a result of planning and acting on one's feet. For a live sporting event such as a football game, a producer's set of knowns includes the teams in action, the star players and franchise favorites, the scheduled start time, the number of promotions he or she needs to squeeze in, how many time outs each team has, etc. What the producer does not know is who will win, who the heroes of the day will be (maybe a franchise favorite; maybe a pine rider), when he or she will get the promos in (maybe a guy goes down and gets inured; maybe it's a key injury and story lines change), when the teams will use their timeouts, etc. In our case, we are going with knowns that are a little bit less certain than the knowns going into a football game. What we've learned about Hurricane Bill (and it's potential warpath) prompted us to scoot out of Nantucket this morning in search of better anchorage. Right now we are anchored in Katama Bay, a lagoon outside of Martha's Vineyard. We made our move based on weather forecasts, charts and discussions with Sky. We dropped three anchors and are now waiting in anticipation for the arrival of Bill. Hurricanes are by very nature unpredictable. Like live sporting events, we can only go into the night prepared for what we know and for what might happen. We are expecting the storm to come around 2am with winds up to 40 knots. It may or may not come. Either way, we will fall asleep tonight knowing we have prepared Zia for all plausible scenarios. Hasta leugo amigos.    

 

   

 
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