The big storm that passed over California and Arizona Thursday to Saturday affected the weather even down here in San Carlos. From Geary’s blog on Jan 23:

Yesterday morning we had a report of 57 knot winds just to the north of San Carlos. This morning I received an email from Don on All the Way in San Carlos that said they had 5 sailboats and 2 powerboats on the beach with only two being successfully taken off so far.

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In the marina we did not suffer like the poor boats that ended on the beach, but we could not believe it would rain so much… We were really slow to wake up and start closing the ports. Result: one of our 2 small keyboard did not survive being filled with water…

We also discovered that 2 ports are now leaking (there were not during the hurricane, otherwise we would have seen water marks). Unfortunately, one of them is above the chart table: require a fix…