TYPHOON HAIYAN

Pinoy Boat Yard
Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines

This has been preparation day for the expected coming of Haiyan, meaning the seabird Petrel in Chinese. The Philippine name is Yolanda. We were fortunate in that all sails had previously been removed and stowed away. We began the morning with clouds but calm winds. The yard workers were taking care of the stern lines which are secured to bollard's across the channel, they normally have weights to in the middle to hold them down. These were removed and we added two more. Two more bow lines were added along with running the anchor chain to a bollard. As all the yachts here are doing the same we appear to be in the center of a giant spider web. Anything that would provide windage was taken off and we stored two of our solar panels normally secured to the lifelines, the on deck fuel cans, canvas bags etc.

It's now just after 3 PM and as I write the barometer is 1014 and steady, the sky is cloudy and we have had some light showers but only about 10 knots of wind. All the workers have gone home to take care of there own houses. It's now just waiting to see what will be. The forecast has landfall bout 75 miles to our northeast tomorrow morning with winds of 130 knots.

We along with most of the others here will stay aboard and do what we can when Haiyan arrives. I'll try to update things once the storm passes depending on electricity.

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GOOGLE EARTH OVERLAY
WE'REJUST ABOVE CEBU CITY
IN ZEKE'S NEW YARD

ON IT'S WAY TOWARD US