Eek. Bit windy

[Tiller Girl]

Just had a look at the Sandettie Lightship - 51kts 7.9ft wave height and 60.1F! Not much tidal flow right now fortunately. AIS stuff shows a lot of vessels at slower speed except for most Cross Channel ferries still doing 21 Kts.

 

[sailorman]

i have doubled up all lines ( on rubber snubbers too ) + fender skirt, Flag of awesomeness has been struck as a precaution & to reduce windage

 

[sailorman]

Harwich / Landguard wind gauge

http://apps.hha.co.uk/mis/Sensors/LandguardSpeed.aspx

 

[Lucky Duck]

Seems odd it's showing more wind there than the approach weather station, wherever that is

 

[Leighb]

I think it is often windier at Landguard and at Shotley, presumably funnelling effects? Shotley is current;y gusting to 60Kts.

 

[Sinbad1951]

61 knots now

 

[Bru]

My slow to respond wind instrument has peaked so far at 43kts but from experience it under-reads by about 10% and it doesn't respond quickly to gusts

I think it can be summed up as ... bloody windy!

 

[Tam Lin]

Yes, it has blown my bay tree over. It is in a pot but quite heavy and has never gone over before. First world problems eh?

 

[Bru]

It's bent our Danbuoy in half now! I am not looking forward to the tide coming in later

 

[sailorman]

Mike w is standing watch o/b in Foxs . I owe him a virtual pint

 

[Stork_III]

I think it is often windier at Landguard and at Shotley, presumably funnelling effects? Shotley is current;y gusting to 60Kts.

Luckily westerly, so the marina should be sheltered (ish).

 

[wingdiver]

53kts max gust here at Fox's

 

[sailorman]

I had a report from Mike this morning. Cleats pulling out of the pontoons :disgust:.
How are your piles

 

[wingdiver]

How are your piles

Wobbly as ever.....
Emailed the MD this morning.

 

[sailorman]

Wobbly as ever.....
Emailed the MD this morning.

Never do today, what you can leave, until tomorrow

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Can't get to the boat until Sunday, working double shifts to cover - could someone look at LK's pontoon cleats? Cheers to Rog for unclipping our boarding ladder last week.

Thanks.

 

[wingdiver]

Can't get to the boat until Sunday, working double shifts to cover - could someone look at LK's pontoon cleats? Cheers to Rog for unclipping our boarding ladder last week.

Thanks.

Looked ok to me at 17:00 in the dark.

 

[pks1702]

Luckily westerly, so the marina should be sheltered (ish).

The windage on our ship and a beam on westerly will have been testing the fenders out against the pontoon :ambivalence:

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Looked ok to me at 17:00 in the dark.

Thanks, appreciate that.

 

[Hydrozoan]

I've been aboard at Shotley since Tuesday night, and before leaving this afternoon I fished out one of the big cubic pontoon letter signs, which must have blown off at some point in the last few days! Nice day yesterday to get the sails down, however.

I added a few more fenders - as I do each winter - and re-strapped a neighbour's sprayhood which had come undone, and was about to collapse. Somebody else did the same for yet another sprayhood - so if you're leaving yours up, don't forget to check and tighten the straps!