Tuesday's storm with attendant power outage recalled a storm of long ago. Four of us amateur boaters were on a 26 foot sloop on Long Island Sound for a three day July 4th weekend. Late in the session we were alerted by NOAA weather that a blow was due. We hastened to find shelter in Block Island anchorage, lowered our ten pound Danforth anchor and prepared to ride it out about thirty yards off the beach. Many neighboring boats were swinging on their anchor lines causing some entanglement requiring all night anchor watch and fortunately daylight came early. I was due back in the office and since I would not make it I queued up to use the common radio telephone and was able to get thru. Other boaters in the same predicament were also calling in and one poor fellow also reported that his secretary would also be absent for the day. At least I did not have that embarrassment.
tjs
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