Easter weekend weather

[davidfox]

I kept waiting for rain, drizzle, showers etc but apart from some rain at about 6am on Easter Sunday we had misty mornings and wonderful sunny periods for the rest of the time, nowhere was busy as presumably everyone kept away because of the poor forecast. Shotley had a shanty festival, which started on Friday and was still going on Sunday when we got back, lots of people there and very busy in the Bar!
Old gaffers there as well and apart from a couple of comments of the 'wood is great but tupperware boats aint' from people who probably go no further than a couple of miles off shore but have red neckerchiefs and marlin spike sets on there belts and look like they have just come off of the front of a sardine tin, it was very good

 

[Sixpence]

Think we got all the rain here, spent most of Friday and Saturday below deck sorting out various non essential things, but I suppose a working galley, nav station and heads could come in useful. By Sunday it started to brighten up but still started wet, and miserable, before the sun finally popped out a couple of hours before high tide at the wrong end of the day. But by then we had found out that the parts we need to sort out the rigging are less than freely available around here, so I had to make do with pottering around doing more non essential jobs.
Still, I did manage to get the genoa fitted and hauled up, just not enough wind on Sunday or Monday to even hope to fly it. Just flapped pathetically around. Tested the boom furling though, that works, kicker also sorted now, just need to find the source of rain water leaking in through the port side now though. Wooden boats don't like fresh water, and this is a leak through an area that hadn't leaked before she was pounded on her previous mooring. Happy days

 

[johnalison]

We spent Saturday and Sunday in Hamford Water with friends and were quite chuffed as we enjoyed the sunshine when our daughter phoned from Norfolk, worried about us because they had had a downpour all day.

 

[pyrojames]

I had a great sail down to Osea on Friday, followed by a day of boats works on Sat, a short sail to Pyefleet on Sun, and then a slow sail in thickening fog on Monday. At cliff foot I could see nothing else, and just as one bouy dissappeared I would pick up the next. By the time I left the mooring at 2000, from the middle of the Orwell, I could not see moorings on either side of the river. Twas a bit nerve wracking in the dinghy!

 

[CPD]

James,
I ended up on a buoy at the entrance to Pyefleet on Sunday eve - probably saw you, unaware, then a gentle tootle up the Blackwater on Monday. Was a lovely weekend.

 

[pyrojames]

You may well have done. I was anchored just upstream of the moorings, but didn't leave until a couple of hours before high water. By then almost everyone else was gone.

 

[Gumpy]

First weekend out on our own (without the BIL giving us instruction). Saturday afternoon was wonderful sailed down to Osea and back in sunshine without making too many mistakes.........
Saw you working just after we set off back to Bradwell, great day for it.

 

[bastonjock]

it was working on the boat time for me,i fitted a new multiflex steering,a vhf and fist mike,then after fixing the wifeys stables i started on the galley,even if i was not sailing it was good to sit in the cockpit drinking a brew on monday night as the sun went down.

Jobs still to do,new chartplotter and GPS antena,finish galley,fit new auto pilot,new mast and rigging,adjustable backstay and curtains

 

[Marmalade]

We made Brightlingsea on Saturday (great weather all day), down to the club in the Blackwater (Marconi SC) on Sunday; spent Sunday night in the Osea anchorage and then back up the wallet (radar on) in monday's fog.

Cracking weekend and we too have relatives / friends who got rained on greatly. Brilliant.

 

[michael_w]

First trip abroad this year. Motor three quarters of the way to Roompotsluis. Hoisted the new asymmetric across the Osterschelde.

Held up at the non opening Zerikzee bridge. Third time this has happened so it has been renamed the Arthur Scargill Memorial Bridge.

Down the Verse Meer for a scrummy supper at Middelburg. Returned the same way as loath to give away miles to windward. Mainly motorsail home. Very thick from near Galloper to South Shipwash. Radar course worth it. Plotting six targets at once!

Arrive home knackered.

 

[pyrojames]

Twas a great weekend. It was nice to be sitting in an anchorage doing odd jobs, rather than tucked up in a marina, for a change.

 

[pyrojames]

As I saw so few boats heading up the Wallet on Monday, perhaps you were the one about 2 miles ahead, which then got away once I started sailing when the tide turned. Not long after that I had a Redpole land on deck, looking tired and hungry.

 

[davidfox]

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Arrive home knackered.

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Er not bl...y surprised!!

that was some trip for a long weekend, bet you were glad of the Radar when it clagged in - I know you dont need it, as has been said on more than one occasion on this forum, but it would have been more than scarey without it.