Easter - The Good and the Bad

[brianhumber]

The Good
Wind picking up off Ventor so we carried on to Cherbourg in a cloudless Sky, and finished up with a 10kt blast to the breakwater when abeam of Barfleur
Doing our bit for the environment by picking up a nearly new fender midchannel
Finding La Cendree Restaurant
Visiting Cite de La Mer - (great value and well worth it.) Wall to wall sun on Saturday.
Blasting back wind against tide on Sunday morning for 3 hours

The Bad
Fog both ways at times
3 crew feeling/being sick
No wind from midchannel on Sunday afternoon
The JOG boys getting so pissed that even other JOGers were yelling at them to shut up at 3am which woke my crew up!
Having to settle for Australian wine in France to suit my taste.
Loads of plastic rubbish in the Channel and Solent
Coming back to work today

Other wise nothing broke all had a good time just surprised that we saw so few others apart form the JOGers. I missed the ferries and Cherbourg ferry port was like a ghost town without P&O

 

[StugeronSteve]

Good: Sunshine and warmth.
Bad: Lack of wind.

The early doors Solent forecast from Windguru was pretty much bang on, in both direction (NE) and strength (<f3).

We did very little other than potter down to Yarmouth and do a bit of polishing, but a nice break all the same.

Just need the weather to hold through to November!

 

[ParaHandy]

wiz youse ra rowdy boogers on P?

ps did you see the Victoria 34 (Ensis - possibly a JSASTC boat) on the quay in a very sorry state?

 

[brianhumber]

Guilty to being on P but being good girls and boys we were all tucked up by 10pm BST. I slept through it all but my crew were not best pleased by the next boat, a JOGer losing his cool at 3am yelling he had to leave at half sixish. As they had to beat back NE via the forts and the wind died midchannel we had a few smirks about them having a long cold beat back with hangovers.

Also wondered about Ensis, looked a real write off to me, the sawn off prop shaft looked as if it was well bent - shame as it looked a nice boat.

How was your trip back, good example of wind over spring tide effect - glasses raised to the rest of the season

 

[ParaHandy]

left cherbourg on monday morning - in fog & the 60% probability (meteofrance) of SW/SSE was E/NE F2/3. fog cleared 8m out but was v. nasty coming in around eastern end of IoW right thru' to portsmuff late yesterday afternoon ..

who was trying to start his engine on P sat night? it (the engine) clearly wasn't too keen .....

Ensis must have beached somewhere near - full of sand/shingle inside the bluidy great hole amidships?

 

[Aardee]

BAD: No wind & lots of fog between Portsmouth & Brighton

GOOD: Dolphins off Selsey Bill