It was a picture-perfect July Fourth weekend around these parts, with temps in the low 80s and sunny skies throughout. All of this despite a few weathermen warning us of Hurricane Arthur, who seemed to exhaust itself with North Carolina and never managed to do any real destruction to the Chesapeake.
Not so. Seems Arthur managed to rally and hit Canada's Prince Edward Island pretty badly. Southwesterly winds clocking in at 55 to 60-knot hit Charlottetown YC, where one boat sank before 7 p.m. on the fourth and multiple others broke free of their moorings and docks.
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