Hmm

[jakeroyd]

Set out for Fowey this morning , from Mylor.
I knew the Easterlies might catch me out.
Sure enough once past St Anthony Hd and on course for the Dodman it was all a bit too much.
I'd hoped for a course close on the wind but could not achieve it.

Stuck in Falmouth now.
Same forecast tomorrow.

By Saturday it's all died off and we should be able to motor back.

That's sailing

Anybody else struggling a bit with the East winds?

 

[jamesjermain]

I sailed (actually mostly motored) to Falmouth from Plymouth on Saturday then to Helford on Sunday, Fowey on Monday, The Yealm on Tuesday and home (Cargreen/Plymouth) yesterday. Winds were almost exclusively light NE to SE. It seemed the sea breezes I expected merely cancelled out the NEs. Irritatingly, having motored to Fowey I met up with friends who had a lovely spinnaker run at 6 knots all the way from Plymouth.

What I did find, on all days, was a ridiculously high swell mainly from the SE. For most of the time I couldn't explain this phenomenon as we have had almost no strong winds from that direction for days.

But on Tuesday, en route for The Yealm the swell, always present, got higher and higher as the wind got lighter and lighter, Eventually I was surrounded by breaking water, Belladonna was burying her nose in the fronts of 1m waves while the true wind indicator said 2 knots. Then, two miles short of Rame Head the wind went from zero to ESE 17 knots in the space of five minutes and we had a great romp hard on the wind at 8.5 to 9 knots for the remaining few miles to The Yealm

 

[jakeroyd]

Interesting James.
With a high over the uk you quite often get strong but variable winds along the channel.
I too had wondered about sea breezes but have yet to experience one recently AFAIK.