Alderney Breakwater. Wish you were here?

The power of the sea can be immense. Will be fun to get repaired.

What amused me in the web site story was the comment tied to it. The comment was made 2 months before the event and irrelevant to the story.
 
They spend a lot of money keeping Braye going. As an occasional visitor, I am all in favour, but I wonder why they don't dump a load of tetrapods along the wall to protect it. They are not very pretty, but they seem to work well elsewhere.
 
I was there a few years ago when lots of water cascaded over the breakwater, very impressive sight and sound. The surprising part for me was that it was at half tide, not high water. And there were still idiots who thought it was safe to walk to the end!
 
longjohnsilver said:
I was there a few years ago when lots of water cascaded over the breakwater, very impressive sight and sound. The surprising part for me was that it was at half tide, not high water. And there were still idiots who thought it was safe to walk to the end!
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Having a 3 tonne granite block landing on you would require a slightly wider coffin to be built for the funeral.
 
Concerto said:
The power of the sea can be immense. Will be fun to get repaired.

What amused me in the web site story was the comment tied to it. The comment was made 2 months before the event and irrelevant to the story.
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Eleanor/Emma anyone's guess. No surprise there.
 
Two Things;


in the mid 80's I was a alongside a boat in St Peter Port, it turned out the lady aboard's dad had been an army surveyor in the 60's -70's tasked with finding out why voids kept appearing in the Alderney Braye breakwater; simple answer, the Nazi's used slave labour, whenever some poor sod keeled over they went into the concrete mix, hence gaps appearing after a while...

Alderney in poor conditions;

my childhoood hero David Blagden took a Hunter 19 ' Willing Griffin ' as the smallest boat ever to compete in the OSTAR and finished a creditable 10th; then he went on to host a TV series ' Plain Sailing ' during which he bought a 39' wooden yawl.

Let's say he became carried away with it all including possibly funny substances and an arty hippy mistress - he set off from Braye in a Force 11 despite the harbourmaster begging him not to; they found bits of the boat and his girlfriend's body.
 
johnalison said:
They spend a lot of money keeping Braye going. As an occasional visitor, I am all in favour, but I wonder why they don't dump a load of tetrapods along the wall to protect it. They are not very pretty, but they seem to work well elsewhere.
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As far as I can remember, they rely on bipeds rather than tetrapods, which are usually much in evidence on Sundays.
 
Seajet said:
Two Things;


in the mid 80's I was a alongside a boat in St Peter Port, it turned out the lady aboard's dad had been an army surveyor in the 60's -70's tasked with finding out why voids kept appearing in the Alderney Braye breakwater; simple answer, the Nazi's used slave labour, whenever some poor sod keeled over they went into the concrete mix, hence gaps appearing after a while...

Alderney in poor conditions;

my childhoood hero David Blagden took a Hunter 19 ' Willing Griffin ' as the smallest boat ever to compete in the OSTAR and finished a creditable 10th; then he went on to host a TV series ' Plain Sailing ' during which he bought a 39' wooden yawl.

Let's say he became carried away with it all including possibly funny substances and an arty hippy mistress - he set off from Braye in a Force 11 despite the harbourmaster begging him not to; they found bits of the boat and his girlfriend's body.
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Not a lot of people know that.
 
SimonFa said:

As its one of my all time favourites I won't complain :)
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Jeez thanks Simon ....headphones on ...accidentally blurted out

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain

"So you don't like that idea," came a reply from somewhere in the office ;);)
 
Hope none of the local businesses were damaged by the storm. Looking forward to returning one day but don't recall any pj parties but maybe this only happens at on certain times .
 
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