If you thought Isabel was a bitch, thank your lucky stars you weren't in Marty's way in Mexico this morning: - Marina de La Paz, 120 slips, is 95% destroyed. - Abaroa Marina, 40 slips, is destroyed. - Marina Palmira, 117 slips, and which has a big breakwater, is in excellent shape with very little damage to boats. - Several boats in Astilleros Dry Storage have been knocked over. - Cabo Isle Marina in Cabo San Lucas, 120 miles to the south, had strong winds and lots of rain, but no damage to boats. The town will be up and running again in a week. Hurricane Marty, widely tracked for the last several days, blew through La Paz from two directions with unexpectedly ferocious winds early this morning. Neil Shroyer of Marina de La Paz estimates the winds at 125 knots, and called it a "once every 25 year hurricane." Shroyer has been in La Paz for 38 years, and said there hasn't been anything like Marty since Lisa in '76 - a storm that killed 10,000 in La Paz after an earthen dam broke. For more, go http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicLat/2003/0903/Sept22/Sept22.html#anchor1085433 --Georgs