Your favorite port in a storm...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Mine'd be Boothbay Harbor, if I had a boat...

[TrogL]

1. Kingston

Yacht club.

When the wind blows off Lake Ontario it sets up a resonance in all the masts and it sounds like a pipe organ.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Sounds wonderful!

:-)

[JVS]

3. Any port in a storm

Aye, a sorry bunch of salts ye'd make, you scurvy dog landlubbers! Argh!

[geniph]

4. Put out to sea in a storm, silly!

don't want to get caught on a lee shore, do you?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Yeah, if you have an Aircraft Carrier

[nono]

6. Boat

I can put you in one, I lived on her for 20 yrs.

[HEyHEY]

7. Snug cove on Bowen Island British Columbia

Has saved my ass a couple times.

[SiobhanClancy]

8. Key West

During a hurricane warning under "mandatory evacuation" order. The tourists all go away and you can sip rumrunners and watch the sunset. Ideally,of course,the hurricane never actually arrives.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. I love Key West...

What a beautiful town!

:-)

[DemNoir]

9. I will take a bottle of

1935 W. & J. Graham's....now thats some port for any storm baby

[Catshrink]

11. That sounds heavenly!

That's exactly the kind of port I thought of...

[HawkerHurricane]

12. San Diego Harbor

Best port is your home port!

Point Loma to Port, North Island to Starboard...
10 Knots rung up, and no traffic forward...
Hoist the call sign, set the Navigation, sea and anchor details...
Set restricted manuevering casualty control proceedures...
Now man the rails!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Here is one for you Hawker....

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[HawkerHurricane]

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[rppper]

16. pt.loma only if your on a submarine......

.....hahahaha...you wave hello to the sea otters hanging out on the bouys, then blammo....your tied up and off the boat in no time....to much manuvering and such if your a skimmer...you still have another hour or so of manuvering watch to stand if you're going to north island or 32nd street......

[peterh]

17. Then of course…one could be stationed…

At the amphibious base on Coronado, sitting there with a brew and sand running between your toes watching you deck hands sail in.:evilgrin:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. Or with the air wing and already be home after a night of

drinking and hanging out with your wives on their last night of freedom.

[HawkerHurricane]

22. True...

I could be a bubble head, airedale, or gator...

But I decided to be a REAL SAILOR instead!

The Sailors life is the life for me
How I love to sail on the salty sea
And I never ever do a thing about the weather
For the weather never ever does a thing for me!

[geniph]

13. The best moorage I was ever at

during a storm was on a mooring buoy at Sucia Island in the San Juans...the storm rocked us to sleep every night. Screw ports, give me a peaceful mooring buoy and a good boat. I love sleeping aboard during a storm, I just don't like anchoring during one (and being docked is NOISY in a storm).

[peterh]

14. Been in a few storms at various locations….

But if I had to pick a favorite…not that I look forward to them…it would be on the island of Moorea in `82, A hurricane hit us shortly after arriving and I found myself actually enjoying it. Went to the bar, that overlooked Cook Bay, and ended up playing gin and drinking Hinano beer…all the time watching the Riki Tiki (the boat that was suppose to take us out to the reef that evening) get an unexpected dry-docking. Had a great time. I was also fortunate (couldn’t afford it at the time) not to have one of the huts on stilts over the bay…they took a beating.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

18. Boothbay rocks Goddess!!!

spent a beautiful week there in '94 at ocean point where you can see 7 lighthouses from one spot.

[sasquatch]

19. South Bass Islands on Lake Erie

I was there once it is a one great big bar Island :beer:

[trof]

23. Wolf Bay

Foley, Alabama
It's an estuary north of the Intracoastal Waterway, fed by 3 rivers/creeks from the north.

I'm watching it out my window now.
There's a Great Blue Heron on the dock rail, looking in the shallows for lunch.
Two adult porpoises and a young one were cruising for breakfast earlier.

I hate the politics here, and the Judge Roy Moore-10 commandments mentality, but I sure do like the PLACE. It's my storm port both figuratively and literally.

.

[MuseRider]

24. Soper's Hole Tortola

Very pretty island, very nice people, great sailing, fantastic diving and Soper's Hole is always hopping. Mushroom Festival is supposed to be something special but have not managed to get to one yet.

[T_i_B]

25. Felixstowe Suffolk

Or failing that Maldon Essex. :-)

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. I've been to Felixstowe!

Visited once with a friend whose mother had gone to school there. It was spring and the town was very quiet.

My personal favorite port in a storm is Wychmere Harbor in Harwichport on Cape Cod, MA. Beautiful sheltered harbor.

[DemoTex]

27. Kansas City Mid-Continent International Airport (KMCI)

Long runways, Cat III ILS, and relatively light traffic.

[trof]

28. Took off from MCI before it opened.

Was in initial training at TWA. Finished with ground school and simulator. Just had the aircraft training left to do. Big ice storm hit KC. No flying. They loaded a bunch of us onto a Convair 880 which had come in to the maintenance base prior to the storm, and we went slip sliding down the runway (no snow removal equipment there yet) to TAMPA! for a week's flying.

[northofdenali]

29. My port in a storm, or in sunshine, snow, sleet, rain..........

well, you get the idea - is Kachemak Bay near Homer. Incredible place.

[oneighty]

30. Rapallo, Italy

A major storm came up! Yeaaaa!

The storm caused the 180 foot wooden

hull Mine Sweeper we were riding to lay over on her starboard side.

Said sweeper, to keep from sinking on the spot

was forced to get underway, head out to sea for safety.

Three of us sailors were left stranded in Rapallo

for a whole miserable week!

Yeaaa!

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[arwalden]

31. Baltimore's Inner Harbor

Great restaurants, and Camden Yards isn't very far away.

Go O's!

-- Allen