Today all our thoughts are with everyone that this awful storm has affected. Our prayers go out to all those families. My thoughts turn to all the wonderful people who treated us like gold when we were in their home ports. Ocean City N.J. with Ed Mays, a cool guy who never met us before and opened his home to us. Or Freeport N.Y with Richie, Pat, Cody and a man's name I can't remember, who let us stay on their dock, use their car and brought us bagels every morning. Victor in Freeport who opened his home with showers and dinner for total strangers. The young lady in the Hampton's who brought beer for Carl and we shared a wonderful campfire on the beach and not to be forgotten all the fantastic people from Rosie's like, Sandy and Norm, Nancy and Ernie, Lee and Ledra, and Barbie and Maury plus Megan our old waitress, all who opened their homes to us. These are just some of the people who made our trip memorable and now had to weather the storm. I hope we hear from all of them and pray they did well, especially  those who live right on the water.. My heart is also with the crew of the Bounty, the terror they must have felt having to  abandon ship at 4:30 am and the brave captain that went down with his ship, making sure his crew was safe. The Bounty called our downtown pier it's home port for many years. Many a day I was down at the pier checking it out, never going aboard but always amazed at its size and wonder. This is a ship that will truly be missed by many and always remember as an icon of our sailing history. Let the fear of its sinking be replaced by the memory of the joy the crew felt being able to sail aboard her on the open seas of our wonderful country. As for us we await the seas to calm and the winds to die down to move us closer to our home port.