I am a fair weather sailor

[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

There I said it. It is not the wind, it is this cold miserable drizzly summer we seem never to be shaking. This weekend the wind was excellent for a day sailing, but the conscientious of opinion on board (sample size 2) was to stay dry and warm, change the engine oil and do some other maintenance from the list.

I have wet weather gear, but get no pleasure from being damp and constantly mopping a dripping nose while pretending this is fun look we're sailing while everyone else is at home or on the mooring. I saw extrovert coming in trussed up in oilies and giving a happy wave. I thought good on him but this is just not my idea of fun. Passage making is different but day sailing in drizzle is it worth the bother?

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[Talbot]

acceptable in higher class cats that have a wheelhouse /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[dralex]

I'm inclined to agree after last week. Took a week off work for a mini cruise down to Cornwall. Got stuck with two lots of gales, enough rain to dilute the sea to half its normal strength and to cap it all, the boat was facing the wrong way when the gales hit on the visitors pontoon in the Salcombe Bag, so we were unable to open the companionway without getting soaked. Memories of chartering in the Med came drifting back!

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now.

 

[jimi]

Think its really a matter of expectations .. I quite enjoy cold wet days in the winter when you expect that .. but I do get fed up wet cold summer days!

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[extravert]

> I saw extravert coming in trussed up in oilies and giving a happy wave

It wasn't. It was a cold wet drizzly drenched murky damp rainy dribbly dripping soggy squelchy soaked sodden sopping watery saturated excuse for a wave, disguised as a happy one.

It wasn't a day sail. I was returning from Aberystwyth.

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep tri-ing.

 

[Robin]

We went the whole of last year without having to resort to oilies/boots. This year that record had been broken twice in the first 6 weeks. We are not amused, heads will roll - probably mine. We had our bimini recovered and redesigned to make a full cockpit canopy for bad weather days, but it was designed as a bimini first and the rest was for 'occasional' use, not every weekend mid summer, premonition or what? We did manage this last weekend sans oilies though, even had every meal in the open in the cockpit, the showers thoughtfully came whilst we were watching Loch Lomond Golf on telly below.

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[Aja]

Up here on the Clyde we had a wonderful weekend's sailing. Admittedly not blazing sunshine but dry and warmish out of the N'ly wind. Rain? Well there was 5 minutes of the stuff on saturday morning.

Donald

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[nicho]

I used to do quite a bit of walking in the Derbyshire dales (lovely place) I did not mind at all, if we left in nice weather which deteriorated into a long and persistant downpoor - it was quite good fun, for a while anyway. However, I would not want to set out in such wet, miserable conditions. I apply the same principles to the boat - if we get caught in wet weather, so be it, but I am not about to set off in pissing rain (unless of course there';s a real deadline to achieve). It's supposed to be enjoyable isn't it??

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[StugeronSteve]

I know that you have to play the cards you are dealt, but it aint arf easy to feel a little cheated when you are wrapping up for a Southern Ocean winter, during a July weekend in the Solent.

Well maybe not Southern Ocean, but you know what I mean.

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[Sybarite]

Why do people continue to buy boats that are not equipped with a good bridge/doghouse/cuddy/wheel shelter/deck saloon?

Who actually enjoys a nightwatch in the rain?

If you do have one of the aforementionned you can go and sit outside whenever you want to.

John

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[AndrewB]

Well aren't we all, given the opportunity? Of course its lure of endless blue skies, calm seas, warm trade winds and golden beaches that hooks us in.

But this is England, so we have to put up with all the crap our fickle weather (and even more fickle government) chucks at us, otherwise we'd do nothing at all.

Chin up, Jools. As a Froggie once observed: "The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country."

 

[oldgit]

Stinky post......

Surely one just shuts the patio doors,turns on the heating,and perhaps turns up the volume on the DVD a tad and then continue bravely up until the next known pub close to a convienent mooring hoves into view.

<hr width=100% size=1>There I was,upside down with nothing on the clock....../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif