Is it too early in the week to get excited?

ricky_s said:
We did go yesterday in the end though it was windy with the sea moderate.

Sitting in Port Solent and the boat is really jumping around in gusty winds. Fingers crossed it is better tomorrow to get home.
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Ricky, the forecasts for tomorrow suggest a nice day but the wind will only calm down after breakfast. Although my boat is suffering a little from a dirty bottom if the forecasts are right I will go out tomorrow as the season is coming to it end.
 
Firefly625 said:
Perhaps I am in best place. Now sitting in times square hard rock cafe, with pint of bud. 95c and sunny, perhaps better than blighty afterall.... :)
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I shall be there Wednesday, when do you fly back? My esteemed employer has managed to arrange things so that I am in New York over Labor Day Weekend. Unfortunately a crack team of specialist credit card maxer's are flying out to join me for the three days I'm off.
 
Seahope said:
Ricky, the forecasts for tomorrow suggest a nice day but the wind will only calm down after breakfast. Although my boat is suffering a little from a dirty bottom if the forecasts are right I will go out tomorrow as the season is coming to it end.
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Had a lovely trip back to Chi this afternoon, calm enough for SWMBO to take to the helm on fast sea bit .

The only trouble today, I got burnt to a frazzle and now have a white sun glasses outline on my eyes with the arms as wel down the side of my facel. The rest of my face is bright red. I knew it was going to be hot eventually! :o
 
Glad to hear you had a good trip home.

SWMBO decided it wasn't nice enough to go out today and since I can't single hand my boat we went for a walk instead :-( It just shows how much the weather can vary in just a few miles. It was quite windy around lunch time on the South Downs.
 
Seahope said:
Glad to hear you had a good trip home.

SWMBO decided it wasn't nice enough to go out today and since I can't single hand my boat we went for a walk instead :-( It just shows how much the weather can vary in just a few miles. It was quite windy around lunch time on the South Downs.
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We drove through Bognor later and there was no wind at all and the sea was very flat changed very quickly today. Good boating day, bad walking day.;)
 
Well despite all the doom and gloom weather predictions, we did make it out onto the Wash on Sunday. It became apparent we would not make it to Wells though!! Instead we had a good couple of hours messing around in the Wash which was a little choppy shall we say (the trip boat ran for shelter after their guests were ill) and we both got thoroughly soaked as the waves crashed over the bow and over the screens, but it was a good fun day out followed by a nice pub lunch and a couple of relaxing days on the Witham to finish the long weekend off.
 
Heres a few pics from the weekends jaunt. All taken from the other boat we were getting too wet to consider getting the camera out!!

Just out of the Witham cut

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Getting choppy a little further out

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Getting even more choppy

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CX54WEK said:
Well despite all the doom and gloom weather predictions, we did make it out onto the Wash on Sunday. It became apparent we would not make it to Wells though!! Instead we had a good couple of hours messing around in the Wash which was a little choppy shall we say (the trip boat ran for shelter after their guests were ill) and we both got thoroughly soaked as the waves crashed over the bow and over the screens, but it was a good fun day out followed by a nice pub lunch and a couple of relaxing days on the Witham to finish the long weekend off.
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Perhaps unwise choosing to go out if the conditions were as you describe, would have been a challenge if that engine had failed. But seeing your pics you look like your having fun, I think I would have have kept the canvas up.
 
Scubadoo said:
Perhaps unwise choosing to go out if the conditions were as you describe, would have been a challenge if that engine had failed. But seeing your pics you look like your having fun, I think I would have have kept the canvas up.
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Given the amount of spray we were getting keeping the hoods up wouldnt have been an option we wouldnt have been able to see a thing.

To be fair to lockie who let us out from Boston he did warn us it was lumpy but also told us if we need to run for cover at any point to sit it out in Boston docks on the new pontoon berths they have installed so we had a safe mooring should we have needed it. If the engine had bailed out we would have just got a tow back in from the other boat out with us. It would have been difficult given the conditions but doable.

On the whole we had a good time out there and would certainly do it again in the same conditions. It has had one benefit, it has cleaned the scum line from under the bow where it is impossible to get to from the pontoon:D
 
You need to be very careful in The Wash. I've seen the sea state go from mirror flat to 8 foot waves in three hours. With the predicted winds of the weekend, all the local commercial boats would have been in the ports and harbours. No-one ventures out on that stretch of North Norfolk coast in N-N/E winds of any strength. Good job you didn't go to Wells, you'd probably still be stuck there. Glad you enjoyed it and didn't have any problems.
 
PaulGooch said:
You need to be very careful in The Wash. I've seen the sea state go from mirror flat to 8 foot waves in three hours. With the predicted winds of the weekend, all the local commercial boats would have been in the ports and harbours. No-one ventures out on that stretch of North Norfolk coast in N-N/E winds of any strength. Good job you didn't go to Wells, you'd probably still be stuck there. Glad you enjoyed it and didn't have any problems.
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A few of the fishing boats were out but many were tucked up safely in Boston Port. We had the option of retreating back to the Haven and the new pontoons for the Black Sluice lock or the shelter of the Welland had we needed to. It was a fun experience but we did always have one eye on the weather and the worsening conditions hence our retreat back into Boston after the four hour window. Even that wasnt an easy ride back up the non tidal Witham. The wind was streaming down the longer straights on Sunday. We eventually found some shelter at Antons Gowt behind som trees for the evening.
 
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