Dan Tribe
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I hope so too. It's a very handy service.
Harwich Harbour Ferry versus Mother nature!
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Leighb
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Looking at the live cameras today the ferry now looks as if she is level fore and aft, but with a distinct list to starboard, so they have probably got most of the water out. I imagine she was swamped rather than holed below the waterline and had separate watertight compartments which kept the bow afloat?
pvb
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Yes, it looks much more normal on the webcam today. I wonder whether the engine compartment was watertight?
sailorman
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I assumed she was swamped & imho totally avoidable she should have been moved off the Pr Friday or sooner, the weather was forecast
Leighb
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Agree, it would appear that all/most of the other vessels moored there were moved before the storm, it was quite calm Friday morning I seem to recall, and as you say, the storm was well and accurately forecast. I wonder if the insurers will argue about that?
sailorman
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I have twice driven to my boat that is a hr from home to see her safely over a surge tide, on the basis i have "A Duty of Care", it has also cost me a days pay + fuel costs each time. We now have new piles & pontoons, so no issues nxt time
Malish
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Dan Tribe
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Just made a small donation.
This is an important link from Shotley to the Alma Arms.
This is an important link from Shotley to the Alma Arms.
sailorman
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What about insurance & see post 26
Tomahawk
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I hope the HSE wonks don't close the pier on account of one storm?
sailorman
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why would they, the HM raise`s the inter link bridges in rough weather
Tomahawk
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I am thinking of the Prom Lake in MAldon where the HSE twonks insisted on having about 5 lifeguards on duty round the clock after the facilities manager failed to prevent a predictable and preventable accident. OK, that one lead to a fatality, but the HSE were over the top afterwards.
pvb
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It looked like the harbour ferry was towed away this morning at about 1030; anyone know where it went?
Malish
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it often resides at SYH
pks1702
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Yes photos online show it at Suffolk Yacht Harbour
johnalison
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How common are northerly gales of this intensity? Northerly 6-7 is common enough but this event seemed a bit unusual to me. I imagine that Harwich doesn't normally get exposed to waves of any size and nobody thought to make special provision for it.
tillergirl
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I wish I had collected weather data over the last 20 years. Just thinking about the 'prevailing wind'; the south-westerly. It just seems not to happen that often now. Probably but I just feel we have a lot more easterly and northerly winds, certainly this year.
Black Diamond
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It was the constant northerlies across Europe during the otherwise excellent spring that robbed us of swallows from our skies this summer. The other thing that is notable is how seldom one has to drop the kedge whilst racing on hot summer days in recent years. Back in the 80s, it was quite common to sit out a foul tide waiting for the sea breeze to fill in, which is a phenomenon that seems to have become far less frequent these days.
Leighb
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I can remember a trip on the Harwich Hook ferry about 30 years ago. We had booked for the daytime crossing, and the previous evening they were forecasting Storm 10 NE for the North Sea. I wondered if the ferry would be cancelled and rang the ferry company to enquire. The lass on the phone assured me that it would be no problem, “we are like the Windmill Theatre sir, we never close”! We turned up and the ferry sailed pretty much on time, but it needed 3 tugs to get off the berth!
There was a yacht out in the harbour under storm rig, orange storm jib and try sail, I assume he was taking the opportunity to try them out.
Out at sea the waves were huge, at one point when I was up on deck I saw a tanker perhaps half a mile away disappear completely in the troughs.
There was a yacht out in the harbour under storm rig, orange storm jib and try sail, I assume he was taking the opportunity to try them out.
Out at sea the waves were huge, at one point when I was up on deck I saw a tanker perhaps half a mile away disappear completely in the troughs.
Hydrozoan
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Interesting short article on seasonal variation in UK prevailing wind direction, based on Met Office data from Cardington: RMetS Journals. ‘... northeasterly winds are at least as common in spring as southwesterly winds, and in some years are considerably more so. Furthermore those years with a low frequency of northeasterly winds in May are slightly more likely to precede a warmer summer than usual.’