Another 'Windy innit' post with a bit of video

[Scillypete]

I've had some good sailing this winter which has been justifying keeping my boat afloat, but there has also been many periods of sustained strong winds from the wrong direction (west or NW) with lots of big swell which stop me from sailing and just give me lots of anxious days/nights even more so since the only other yacht that was on a mooring came ashore the other week. Just have to trust in insurance and the best insurance of all my own strops. Still Thursday looks like a nice day.
We even have one brave visiting yacht hiding in Porthcressa at the moment as well.

 

[dylanwinter]

thanks for posting that

I've had some good sailing this winter which has been justifying keeping my boat afloat, but there has also been many periods of sustained strong winds from the wrong direction (west or NW) with lots of big swell which stop me from sailing and just give me lots of anxious days/nights even more so since the only other yacht that was on a mooring came ashore the other week. Just have to trust in insurance and the best insurance of all my own strops. Still Thursday looks like a nice day.
We even have one brave visiting yacht hiding in Porthcressa at the moment as well.

nora

that is hard on a yacht

how often does the wind come from that direction?

Dylan

 

[Zagato]

Yikes... and theres me worrying about Chi Harbour this time next year,... I would never have just rope either but in those conditions ... Good on you for toughing it out for winter sailing but

Can't they move you somewhere more sheltered... where the other boat is in the vid for instance! Poor boat!!

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

The one in Porthcressa looks like those brave (mad) souls from Cornish Cruising perhaps?

 

[Scillypete]

nora

how often does the wind come from that direction?

Dylan

After every low goes through usually so far to often

 

[Sybarite]

Memories of sleepless nights there before re-mooring in Porthcressa!

 

[Sybarite]

nora

that is hard on a yacht

how often does the wind come from that direction?

Dylan

When it's like that, I use additional old warps as sacrificial lines to take the strain off the main mooring.

 

[Gerry]

Lawks that looks awful, poor boat! Hope everything is well stowed below decks......

Best of luck will have my fingers crossed for you.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Can't they move you somewhere more sheltered... where the other boat is in the vid for instance! Poor boat!!

The boat in Porthcressa is fine until the next depression, and it blows SW'lly, then its more exposed than where the boat is now. Pete is in the most (generally) sheltered part of the islands.

It doent look good until the end of the week, good luck Pete, those ropes might need some attention.

 

[Scillypete]

Can't they move you somewhere more sheltered... where the other boat is in the vid for instance! Poor boat!!

As Galadriel says Porthcressa is even more exposed and uninsurable for a permanent mooring, the boat in there is just visiting and making use of the visitor moorings that are there for 'summer' visitors. Moorings further inside the harbour dry on spring tides which are usually more extreme at this time of year and if there is any groundswell as well it could have the potential for damage when drying/refloating.

 

[dk]

Reckon I,d move if that were me! Not much chance of kipping in that!

 

[oldbilbo]

Pete's just trying to scare us off! Let's remind ourselves of what the Isles of Scilly are really like.....

And perhaps one of the best yottie pubs in the Western hemisphere.....

 

[Scillypete]

Reckon I,d move if that were me! Not much chance of kipping in that!

Have to get out to it first, so it'll be hard to sleep even though not onboard, but yes there are better places to stay when it is like this.

 

[Scillypete]

Pete's just trying to scare us off! Let's remind ourselves of what the Isles of Scilly are really like.....

And perhaps one of the best yottie pubs in the Western hemisphere.....

No it never is . . . . and yes that is the best pub . . . . no question

 

[Sans Bateau]

Pete's right terrible place.