Did anybody actually venture out?

[cgull]

Did any body actually go out sailing on saturday. I was all set to go...did cancel out in the end



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[Aardee]

I also decided against it on Saturday. Had a great thrash around on Sunday though!!

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[Twister_Ken]

Had a great thrash around on Sunday

Sir!

Desist from boasting your prowess. It is unseemly in a gentleman.

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[Aardee]

Re: Had a great thrash around on Sunday

I shall accept the description "Gentleman" as a compliment and consider myself told off.

It was fun though...

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[Twister_Ken]

Re: Had a great thrash around on Sunday

>It was fun though... <

There you go again. Lower deck, forward of the mast instantly and consider yourself lucky to have escaped a flogging.

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[Mudhook]

Saw a bloke motoring down the Orwell Saturday morning in a 35-foot yacht, and met a fellow in Fox's chandlery at Ipswich who said he was going to try for Plymouth on a delivery that afternoon. Maybe Plymouth is a quiet anchorage down-river I don't know about! 35-footer may have been a school boat from the number of crew in the cockpit.

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[davel]

I went down to the boat on Saturday and fiddled around for a couple of hours. Since she's on the hard there was no chance of my going out, but I did switch the instruments on whilst I was working. Sustained winds of over 40 knots and that was in a sheltered part of the yard.

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[beneteau_305_553]

Sandiette lightship in dover strait was showing 53 to 54 knots for several hours Saturday evening.

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[Sans Bateau]

As I was unable to get down to the marina over the weekend, I thought I better just check the boat today (monday). I was faily confident that she would be ok, as the staff are very good and I had not had a phone call.

I was curious though, as I approached her I could see there was an alien warp, attached to the aft cleat, across the next vacant berth to the pontoon cleat for that berth; the boat was very snug with the bow warps pulling her in tight against the large fender on the pontoon, the new warp at 45deg to the centre, the whole boat sort of pivoting on the bow; very safe. Feeling satisfied that the marina staff had been along and made her safe from snatching on her warps I thought I better thank them, which I did. When I asked what the problem had been, I was told "Oh, there was nothing wrong with your mooring, or your boat, it's just that the wind was pushing your boat against the finger pontoon and the fixings were pulling out of the main pontoon"! Hell. This was in Emsworth, Chimet, the weather station on Chichester Bar Beacon recorded 57knts on Sat pm. Who was sailing off Hayling Bay!?

 

[Neraida]

We took a stinkie out sailing on Sunday morning, managed to avoid the worst of it, had "changable" winds in Soton water, varying between a 3 and a 6, and swinging about by about 30deg.

Nice morning tho...

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