Is it too much to ask for?

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A day without a biting north or north easterly wind giving the paint wind chill and drying the edge
A day without rain spitting on freshly applied vanish
A day where the weather forecast is right
A day where the tripper boat from Maldon doesn't create the most humongest wash just as I'm cutting in
A day where when I am underneath precariously balanced to avoid the layer of mud on the beach (beach? ho, ho ho), a passer-by doesn't ask if that's a wooden top on a glassfibre hull
A day where I don't lose balance and reach out for support onto a newly varnished surface
A day where the wood pigeon's c**p on someone else's newly rubbed down deck
A day where just as I have the lid off the tin and the stirrer in the mobile doesn't ring with either the daughter asking questions about her new car or the son saying that his wife still hasn't produced yet or Mum asking was it was this afternoon that I was popping in

s*d it all. Actually I'd settle for no 3. How can the Met Office say on one page that it will be dry all day and on another say thas there will be showers in the same place?
 
I hear your plaintive cries. I wanted nice weather at the weekend to work on exposed electrics - it rained despite 'forecasts' to the contrary.

Ho Hum.
 
I'm gonna 3rd your plight!

I read the forecast to be smooth / slight today, so an opportunity to refit my transducer on the transom. Oooo slight as in 2ft chop????, which ultimately resulted in me losing a rather nice screwdriver into the drink..
That was inbetween dodgying the downpour of rain and hail...

I do feel that the big man upstairs is not being over kind with the weather so far this season, but i'm gonna try and remain faithful that sun/fair winds are just round the corner.. Pleeeeaaasssee!!!!!
 
S*d it, s*d it, s*d it!

I really really need to gloss the hull tomorrow and get another coat of vanish on the one ruined today if possible. But in the excitement of it all I kinda lost count of all the weather forecasts and have to ask myself 'do I feel lucky' Well do I?

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No it's ok after all. This one must be right!

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Is it me or is this all just bloody daft nonsense. How can they both be right? Could this be a good place to start the public service cuts?
 
tillergirl said:
A day without a biting north or north easterly wind giving the paint wind chill and drying the edge
A day without rain spitting on freshly applied vanish
A day where the weather forecast is right
A day where the tripper boat from Maldon doesn't create the most humongest wash just as I'm cutting in
A day where when I am underneath precariously balanced to avoid the layer of mud on the beach (beach? ho, ho ho), a passer-by doesn't ask if that's a wooden top on a glassfibre hull
A day where I don't lose balance and reach out for support onto a newly varnished surface
A day where the wood pigeon's c**p on someone else's newly rubbed down deck
A day where just as I have the lid off the tin and the stirrer in the mobile doesn't ring with either the daughter asking questions about her new car or the son saying that his wife still hasn't produced yet or Mum asking was it was this afternoon that I was popping in

s*d it all. Actually I'd settle for no 3. How can the Met Office say on one page that it will be dry all day and on another say thas there will be showers in the same place?
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:D :D
 
TG, you have my full sympathy, afraid I've given up hoping for a good forecast and have decided to go for it and hope. Hope that when we come out at the end of the season I can get her under cover to pretty her up a bit, that is. All I'm aiming for this year is a launch sometime soon, with a watertight hull and deck, or as near watertight as I can get, until the next leeks prove me wrong
Best weather forecast I've found is that bit of rope hanging outside the window, if it's wet then it's raining, etc
 
Sixpence said:
TG, you have my full sympathy, afraid I've given up hoping for a good forecast and have decided to go for it and hope. Hope that when we come out at the end of the season I can get her under cover to pretty her up a bit, that is. All I'm aiming for this year is a launch sometime soon, with a watertight hull and deck, or as near watertight as I can get, until the next leeks prove me wrong
Best weather forecast I've found is that bit of rope hanging outside the window, if it's wet then it's raining, etc
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Leeks? :confused: Your Welsh roots are showing! ;)
 
I do not BELIEVE it!

If I start the enamel at 10am this morning, it will take me 2 hours, finish at 12 noon.

Does someone at the Met Office read these forums? The rain at 1300 is right over TG's current location

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Karouise said:
Bet it is dry in the other place you mention, but I guess that isn't helping.

For what it is worth on Saturday I had just finished painting my non slip bits on the deck when it was rained on, not much so I think i got away with it.
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Same happened to me too last week Peter. Come on chaps, collective chins up, we will soon be hot hot hot :D :D
 
0930 Light rub down of varnish
1000 Application of tack cloths to remove dust
1030 Start enamel on hull (port side (in the sun, jumper off, lovely)
1145 Start enamel on starboard side (in shade, wind building with the flood)
1200 Bloody freezing in shade with the NE whipping round
1300 Sun goes in, even more bloody freezing - I'm going to get this finished!
1400 Enamel finished, boots off, onto deck, jumper on, jump up and down to restore circulation, sandwiches.
1430 Second coat of varnish on coachroof sides
1500 Cloud thins and it gets a little warmer
1545 Varnishing finished
1630 All packed up!

No rain, no warmth but the hull enameled and part of second coat of varnish done. Yippee! Thank goodness I have to do some more work in a week or so. Warmth!

Miles YTD = 0.007 Target = 10!
 
Believe me, it's no better in the Med. Last year, the Italian met office (run by the Italian Air force) gave NE F4-5. We left Ostia (Rome-on Sea) expecting a good run down to Anzio. We were immediately met with SW7, rising to 9 later. We actually began to think they must have a different notation for wind direction and speed, but apparently not. Think yourselves lucky you have the Met office. It could be worse.

In fact, it is worse. In Greece, they look out of the window at the piece of old seaweed hanging on a nail.
 
Not sure I subscribe to the argument that just because the Italians have a rubbish Met Office, we can as well! But sorry to hear of your plight - bit of a lee shore there!
 
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