Holiday Weather - experts are miles apart

[Chris_Robb]

Presure chart forcast to next monday on 2 sites - ECMWF anf Weatheronline. One shows what I want to see - nice high pressure, and the other shows a good old succession of lows. Whose right - I bet I will be disappointed! Going west - so fingers crossed! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/...s!2007071700!!/

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/sail_euro.htm Please navigate to Wight and Monday 23rd (can't get the URL to go straight there)

 

[mandlmaunder]

there is always lots of options on reading weather- but which ever 1 you choose will end up with you disappointed and wet

 

[Chris_Robb]

Perhaps I 'm the eternal optimist!

 

[DJE]

I've been watching ECMWF recently and they give a different forecast every 12 hours. Here is the latest for Monday.

 

[Richard10002]

Plan for the worst and hope for the best - it's sometimes cost me a couple of quid, but If I've made plans for worst case, the best case usually happens. If I dont plan for the worst, it always happens!

Not just with the weather.

 

[alec]

The reefing gear has taken a hideous bashing this season. Only people who still have hank on sails can realise what a terrible pounding my body has taken this season.

I have lost interest in whether it rains or shines but please let there be less wind !

Whatever happened to high pressure systems in summer ?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Yup.... its been so windy that I am concerned that when (if?) the high pressure finally arrives, we'll be conditioned into thinking that 15kts is a drifter... and be dissappointed that the boat is only making 6kts in the sunshine... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Chris_Robb]

eerrr - now it looks like the rest! low pressure!!!

OK so plan for the worst. - Don't really care about sunshine - its the wind - constant from the west - right where we want to go. Dog will be a s sick as a parrot!

 

[Cornishman]

What about the parrot? Sick as a dog? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Chris_Robb]

Did I note that you were up at Cothele? As the mebsahib (alia SWMBO) is a garden fanatic - is it ok to get 1.6 mtrs plus 12mtr up there to moor?

 

[Cornishman]

Yes, no problems as long as you are aware of the tides for the day you plan to visit. You can come alongside The Quay and rest against the wall posts (best to have a leaning spar handy) and then you can dry, or you can anchor in the bay on the Cornwall side of the Tamar just short of The Quay or if it's free you can pick up the mooring opposite the Tamar Barge Shamrock which is in her dock.
PM me with the date(s) you might come and I will send you predicted tidal times and heights (so that you won't need to do your secondary port calculations) as well as other details about Cotehele. I look forward to seeing you.

 

[Chris_Robb]

Probably be either PM Saturday 28th or Sunday 29th any time. or Sat 4th Aug

Crew change in Plymouth on the Saturday so probably not poss.

By the way - I am looking for somewhere to leave her for 1 week from August 5th, as we will come back for another week hols on 12th August.

At the moment I am on a waiting list from Torpoint marina, but wanted something not marina prices! The scots blood surfacing here I think!