Big old tides weren't they?

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Big old tides weren\'t they?

Cracking sail taking a complete novice to Yarmouth from Northney on Saturday, doing up to 10 knots over the ground W Solent. What makes some people natural helms? This guy had never been sailing before but found the windward groove and clung to it through many wind shifts.
 
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Yes indeed, I saw SOG numbers only seen recently on the Normany coast.

The resultant current through the Chi Marina lock on free flow was a bit, er, interesting though. Very nearly had some (more!) scratches to polish out of the gelcoat !
 
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Yer telling me, I was trying to fish in that lot and could really only touch bottom at HW+-1. My GPS was recording 4+ knots at Hurst and that was before the ebb really started. I caught plenty of mackerel and naturally lost a wapping great bass.
 
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Just a bit! We were being chucked about all over the place getting into Cowes on Saturday, bouys looked like they were hanging on for dear life! Was most helpful for getting onto a pontoon sideways tho.


Claire
 
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Even more spectacular when your engine overheats when just coming down the small ships channel at the entrance to Prtsmouth Harbour!

We changed the drive belts on the engine on Saturday, and had to turn off the engine cooling water, and forgot to turn it on again. So when I tested the engine after sorting out the alternator drive, I obviously burned out the raw water impeller. Which explains why when I took it out after the nice man from Seastart towed us back in, it had no flanges left at all.
'Course, then you have to hunt for the bits. So thanks to the nice engineer who was sent along by Haslar. And, again, a big thank you to all those nice people who asked if we were in difficulty as we were uncuccessfully trying to sail out of the harbour with a light NW'ly, against that tide.
Got sorted finally, and went off to Dell Quay for yet more work, sorting out our non-fuctioning copper antifouling.

Another blonde moment. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Some newbies just grab the wheel and sail like they've been doing it for a living. On the other hand I've got one friend that often crews who wouldn't know if the wind was in his face, or blowing up his ass, even if he helmed with his pants down. Which thankfully he does not!

Saw Amaya in Yarmouth Saturday, as we were coming in from Weymouth. Left Weymouth at 0600, with next to no wind straight up the chuffer and found ourselves rounding St. Albans close hauled into 26Kts (T), with a surprisingly tasty sea kicking up off DZB buoy.

We had a very quick gentle sail up the Solent on Sunday, never checked the GPS for SOG, but it must have been at least 50% more than the log was reading. Were you out with the EMBBs or a civilized crew?
 
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We had a very quick gentle sail up the Solent on Sunday, never checked the GPS for SOG, but it must have been at least 50% more than the log was reading.

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Ah now, if only you had a McMurdo ICS Nav6+, which is the mutts nuts in Navtex, like what tome and I have got. Next time you get to the boat you would be able to see your SOG for every 15 minutes of your 2 week holiday, along with all the other NMEA data.

So if your SOG was 50% more than the log, it will be recorded as about...ooh... 6knots, maybe?
 
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Didn't spot you or would have said hello. I was with the more civilised end of the EMBB division!

There was only 0.4m under our keel when we rafted up with an hour and half of ebb still to run, so the berthing master gave the whole raft a shove sideways with his dory whilst we took up on the lines to the piles. That gave us an extra metre ground clearance.
 
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I guessed 6-6.5 knts from the passage time to Beaulieu Spit.

Better not get the ICS Mutts Nuts jobbie then. Coz if I'd had it on crossing Lyme a few days earlier I would have been suicidal for a while. Mind you the SOG past Portland was a cheery sight.
 
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Had a crossing from Poole to Hamble on Saturday, had to take a CO32 there. Not the best engine in the world and could only leave at 10.00 Sat due to crew problems (don't ask). I can picture every brick of the fort due to flulky wind at the Castle.
 
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needing a scrub I'm with the tide or dead in the water. Thats why I was out of Studland at 5am on a Sunday. That and a bit of engine from Calshot, where there was a bit of a lull, gave us a 6 hour passage to Port Hamble. With the breeze so light I'd have still been trying if I'd had a lie in. Thank you tidal stream.

A good mate of mine comes sailing about once a year and can steer any point of sailing like a veteran. He adapts to wind shifts and can deal with tides and dock the boat like he did it everyday. I mean, I've never had a problem with it either but I started young and I do practice. Another bloke, who comes with us a bit more regular, was fine until he went on a course. He's damn near useless now. You can see him thinking about it.
 
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Coming back from Poole, a waterpump seized had to do the journey against the tide on one engine. Down to 3.2Knts SOG at Hurst. Even got over taken by raggies!!
 
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I wasn't making any wash though /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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With the 1GM smoking as I came past Felixstowe pier the GPS was reading between 0.0 and 1.8. Doesn't seem to be anything in between. A pleasant enough afternoon to be bobbing along so I wasn't too distressed though another 1/4hr and I would have had to be knee deep in mud to get the tender back to the dinghie park

Kim
 
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