Baggy
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Please don’t tell anyone else cos everyone will be doing it and spoil it for us
Sailed from Falmouth across Biscay to Bayona late august 2003. Got a 5 day weather window.
So off we went my bruv and I
2 days out the wind died away completely for 8 hours (oily seas that sort of thing) then up it piped and piped and piped blowing up to F6 NW by next day, the seas were getting bigger and bigger and the waves and swell coming from all over the place, for the next 2 days we had to give the boat our full attention in keeping her on course and from gybing….I was in a controlled panic in an uncontrollable sort of way.. It was my first time in the big ocean and found myself very scared, Bruv was taking it ok, mind you its not his boat..
Due to this I failed to keep a log of the weather, wind speed and direction for the next 2 days..
Arrived in a very calm, sunny and hot bayona marina, not slept or washed for 4 days. On reflextion we must have stunk a tad cos we were told to report to marina office straight away, as we entered all the staff flung open the windows looking a pale shade of green.
Anyway the reason for this posting
You know how it’is, safe and sound at home during those long winter nights. kept thinking what was the weather doing in the bay during my voyage.. was it a force 7 or maybe 8 I experienced or was it a F4, but I wanted to know..
So I emailed the Met Office about archive weather, they promptly replied
asking me of more details, time place etc.. and the result was they sent me a CD to my home free of charge with a very comprehensive display of weather info for the north Atlantic and Biscay during my crossing .. mind you, you have to have a degree in meteorology to understand it.. but am so pleased to know what the official weather was…
It was not a F4…
Please don’t tell anyone else cos everyone will be doing it and spoil it for us
Sailed from Falmouth across Biscay to Bayona late august 2003. Got a 5 day weather window.
So off we went my bruv and I
2 days out the wind died away completely for 8 hours (oily seas that sort of thing) then up it piped and piped and piped blowing up to F6 NW by next day, the seas were getting bigger and bigger and the waves and swell coming from all over the place, for the next 2 days we had to give the boat our full attention in keeping her on course and from gybing….I was in a controlled panic in an uncontrollable sort of way.. It was my first time in the big ocean and found myself very scared, Bruv was taking it ok, mind you its not his boat..
Due to this I failed to keep a log of the weather, wind speed and direction for the next 2 days..
Arrived in a very calm, sunny and hot bayona marina, not slept or washed for 4 days. On reflextion we must have stunk a tad cos we were told to report to marina office straight away, as we entered all the staff flung open the windows looking a pale shade of green.
Anyway the reason for this posting
You know how it’is, safe and sound at home during those long winter nights. kept thinking what was the weather doing in the bay during my voyage.. was it a force 7 or maybe 8 I experienced or was it a F4, but I wanted to know..
So I emailed the Met Office about archive weather, they promptly replied
asking me of more details, time place etc.. and the result was they sent me a CD to my home free of charge with a very comprehensive display of weather info for the north Atlantic and Biscay during my crossing .. mind you, you have to have a degree in meteorology to understand it.. but am so pleased to know what the official weather was…
It was not a F4…
