A bit of a blow!

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Solitaire

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Last Updated Monday, 23 December at 10:10 pm (GMT)
Wind

Mean Speed 45.4 kn (F9)
Highest Gust 52.8 kn (F10)
Direction S

Sea Conditions

Tidal Height 2.87 m
Atmospheric Conditions

Air 10.6 °C
Barometric Pressure 979 mb

Sotonmet just now.
 
I was down at Lymington Yacht Haven earlier..........the noise was horrendous. Heard some reports of damage to some vessels but do not know to what extent. Wind has really picked up again here in Lymington within the last hour and seems to have gone more southerly with the increase in speed. Nervous times!
 
Some loose canvas flapping around, and conditions at the Northerly end of the marina are horrendous: it's really quite difficult to walk back down the quayside, and the boats ashore are rocking around in the cradles.
 
62 knots recorded on the nearest weather station to home yesterday. Had a look at the marina webcam briefly yesterday morning, was quite shocking, Southerly wind was blowing straight in. The swell was swamping some of the pontoons!

Put some extra lines and fenders out last week but still made a call to the office just to confirm everything was ok. Looks like it's going to blow up again on Friday.
 
Ian h said:
Looking at the info from Hurst last night

taken from here
http://www.weather-file.com/hurst/graph.htm

Date 24 Dec 2013
Time 00:50
Min Wind Speed (Knots) 46.05
Avg Wind Speed (Knots) 60.65
Max Wind Speed (Knots) 89.48 = 103mph !!
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I spent the night on the boat. I was not in my usual berth as i still hadnt got in after the yarmouth carols trip the weekend before.

At about 0100 i was alerted to a steel boat that had snapped some of its lines and was about to break away. It was on an outer pontoon. Those on board had exchanged phone numbers and were monitoring VHF, but the steel boat was unoccupied.

Four of us mustered. Lifejacketed and long rope in hand we made it to the outer pontoon. It was leaping up and down by some feet, with waves breaking clean over. We hauled the boat in enough for one to leap aboard.

Lines thrown, every action was on all fours with a second man holding the lifejacket. We eventually secured the boat but it was challenging.

I have never experinced anything like it in a marina.

We re fendered a few boats, but some had popped them and were being blown on. There was nothing we could do for the bigger boats, we couldnt push them off to get a fender back in.

If the steel boat had broken its final line i beleive it would have t boned evenstar.

What a night.
 
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Elessar said:
I have never experienced anything like it in a marina.

We re-fendered a few boats, but some had popped them and were being blown on.
There was nothing we could do for the bigger boats, we couldn't push them off to get a fender back in.
If the steel boat had broken its final line I believe it would have T-boned 'Evenstar'.

What a night.
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Sounded horrible, but well done for persevering. We used to get some pretty horrible nights at Sparkes in the Northerly gales as Flower Power just implied. Some nights, I have seen grown men crawling on all fours on the long pontoon walk.

One guy get bounced off into a moored fishing boat, falling through tonneau covers. Also, short mooring lines, straight up from pontoon to deck cleat snub so hard, the downward load bent the tops of cleats (on a 48ft boat) and craze gel coat from compression around deck cleat mountings.

It just goes to prove you can't really believe the power of the elements until you see it first hand - even in a marina! :o

See ya down there later?

RR
 
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