Water temperatures are a bit cooler than average, which means people may experience "cold water shock" from entering the water after being in the hot air.
works. what does that mean for you then? for today, you know, we will have a staff meeting at 10:00 and we usually open at noon. i think based on the latest i have seen, i think we are going to open today. we will keep monitoring it and hope for the best. so you haven t had any thoughts of evacuating? is that right? not yet. so we re in the city. i actually live near the water. it s been raining incredibly hard for a couple of hours. but so far, so good. and as i under it, you would then be, based on your location, and please correct me if i m wrong here, depending on the fox point hurricane protection barrier. that s, what, a mile south of downtown. but are you near that and how much will you dep on that? we are totally dependent on that. so essentially there is a about
as you can see we have a lot of mooring lines. we have doubled up on the lines fore and aft. we have breast anchors that go out sideways into the channel over here to keep the boat off the dock. so we have extra anchors, extra mooring lines, obviously, everything that can move on the boat has been stowed down below and we will be watching her every half an hour or so. reporter: i have been in harbors during severe tropical storms. if these things are not battened down properly they can loosen and they become a literal barge missile on open water. they can sway into things and cause destruction. i appreciate your time telling me about your weatherly vessel, the winner of the america s cup in 1962. new england hasn t seen a hurricane in 30 years. of course, now a tropical storm.
of southern new england and the impacts will be felt and unfolding in the next couple of hours. some good news. it s interacting with cold ocean water, so it is down graded to a tropical storm. we are splitting hairs when we talk about a low end cataegory hurricane. you have the winner of america s cup here. and we are going talk to the owner from this particular beautiful vessel behind me. i want to ask you if you don t mind how you prepare a ship of this magnitude from an on coming tropical storm. very good. thank you for having me. by the way, her name is weatherly, which is kind of reporter: how apropos. yes. so we, obviously, have been tracking the storm for the last several days. we thought it was going over towards connecticut and now, of course, closer to here. so we will be watching the boat closely all day.
the name title. it goes from a hurricane to a tropical storm. but the outer bands already still moving in across several states this morning. landfall is still expected a few hours from now. most likely over eastern long island and areas of western rhode island as well. anywhere basically from the hamptons up to about newport, rhode island would be the best target point. it will continue to move inland before making a sharp turn to turn out to the east. stu storm surge is significant today. for some areas it s the next several hours where the worst of the storm surge is going to take place. the one thing to note, too, a lot of these high tides, a lot of these areas have yet to hit high tide. we are in that high tide cycle, meaning the water is coming up and it s a coming up as well because of the tropical system. you have that double wham any of the stunl and the high tide. outer bands have been producing heavy rain across new jersey. we are starting to see them spread into other state