I wonder which model they ate using.
I wonder which model they ate using.
It is a compromise on Icon and gas track and shows more wind than GFS but less the icon. Icon currently shows 100 knots in levcas aria Thursday evening and the storm looking intensity over the land, but yours shows it maintaining greater force as it avoids full landfall.
Let's hope the reduced numbers in the Ionian will allow all to find good shelter
Pretty sure its windy.comI wonder which model they ate using.
I am ashore on my boat in an Aktio boatyard. I am not looking forward to this at all. If it is an action replay of a similar storm a few years ago (2018) it toppled a large Oyster whose mast creamed four other boats. A large heavy boat next but one to me went walkabout about sideways cradle and all. Tracks in the gravel plotted the excursion.
Some of the problem with the toppled Oyster was the cradle chains that hold the four swinging uprights tight to the hull. The big rigging screw on these uprights used a hook to connect the chain to the base of the cradle. The hooks simply straightened out releasing the uprights to swing out. Glad of the new law to have mandatory third party insurance in Greece. Good on Greece for that.
The start of it just pass south of where we are now , looking closely of the path it's taken at the moment the worst should pass south of you , look more like the south of the penoplese and Crete will get a good bashing .I am ashore on my boat in an Aktio boatyard. I am not looking forward to this at all. If it is an action replay of a similar storm a few years ago (2018) it toppled a large Oyster whose mast creamed four other boats. A large heavy boat next but one to me went walkabout about sideways cradle and all. Tracks in the gravel plotted the excursion.
Some of the problem with the toppled Oyster was the cradle chains that hold the four swinging uprights tight to the hull. The big rigging screw on these uprights used a hook to connect the chain to the base of the cradle. The hooks simply straightened out releasing the uprights to swing out. Glad of the new law to have mandatory third party insurance in Greece. Good on Greece for that.
I just picked up a satellite image and its looks very impressive sitting some miles East of Sicily ,Its all very strange with Greek Poseiden not really monitoring a storm at all. Its out there alright because the satellite shows it,
I think Icon may be OTT - I hope it is for all your sake out there!
Icon and gfs now agreeing in strengths gusts 58kn. One goes to Levkas and the other zante. The zante gfs goes on furthe east with strenght down the peleponese, were as icon disintegratesI just picked up a satellite image and its looks very impressive sitting some miles East of Sicily ,
I would take it very seriously if I was in Greece now .
We was supouto sail to Sicily from Malta in the early hours to morrow but knowing how these can change direction we think we sit it out another day plus there a 4 mt swell out there so that in its self is a incentive to make us stay put .
Probably be in porto Palo Friday night if your still there unless we continue all the way to Siracusa.We set off on Monday from Erikoussa, with a nice looking forecast, straight for Portopalo (SE corner of Sicily). The next time I got a mobile signal somewhere 30 miles south of Rocella Ionica, I didn't quite believe what the updated forecast showed. What had been a little 1012 mBar depression that was supposed to provide us with a nice downwind run was now this beast.
We managed to sail through the NW edge of it, surfing down big waves (easily 2m) and doing rather good speeds with just a scrap of main sail out. Winds were only 25-33 knots with a few gusts to 40, but the waves were pretty wild and by the time we rounded Capo Passero it was all getting a bit iffy and we were glad to be out of that. Now resting safely at anchor and talking to our friends in Greece, who are bricking it. I figured it'd putter out after hitting the Western Peloponnese, but it looks like it might go all the way to Crete.
Also heard one catamaran who was also crossing from Greece might still be out there, hope they're ok (they haven't got AIS, so no idea where they are only heard it from mutual friends).
Probably be in porto Palo Friday night if your still there unless we continue all the way to Siracusa.
If we don't catch you , see you in Licata some time in Late Oct
Join the club , we had constant thunderstorm and rain for the last two hours crashing over our heads .We want to head west and forecast is on the nose for the foreseeable future, so we'll probably be here for a bit. Can use some rest. Endless rain right now, with the odd gust. At least the salt gets washed off the deck! Looks like the fishing fleet is mostly staying in port too.