It is raining in Scotland - again - pictures

[dylanwinter]

I don't mean to complain - but.......

bloody nora

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/S11800031.jpg

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/S11800011.jpg

which why I have time to sit 500 miles from home in a crouching headroom boat without a table making up web pages

the Solent films - so far viewed around 100,000 times have been turned into two zip files that can be downloaded for freemans and home burned onto a DVD

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/keepturningleftseason7/ktl+7+The+Solent+by+Centaur++disk+1.zip

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/keepturningleftseason7/ktl+7+The+solent+by+Centaur+disk+2.zip

for the technically challenged there is a page on a website that will tell you how to achieve turning a zip file lifted from a website into images on your old telly

 

[[70521]]

What are you worried about man? It is soft summer rain ( warm and falling vertically). It is when you meet hard winter rain (0.001'C and falling horizontally) that you really need to worry.

 

[jac]

He that goes to Scotland and is not bathed frequently in soft summer showers is a liar. ( or inside)

 

[aquaplane]

That Centaur that you are lusting after could morph into a Hunter 27 Pilot just as I hope mine will.

The £25K price tag makes it unlikely for me, and I suspect for you too.

 

[dylanwinter]

I am looking afresh at motorsailers -

the light would still be as dull as ditchwater but at least the camera and the boat driver would stay dry

D

PS - has anyone started downloading those files - I am curious about download speeds

 

[[70521]]

I am looking afresh at motorsailers

You need one of these Dylan

http://www.boreal-yachts.com/?lang=en

1.02m draught it would suit you down to the ground and a brilliant dog house.

 

[dylanwinter]

You need one of these Dylan

http://www.boreal-yachts.com/?lang=en

1.02m draught it would suit you down to the ground and a brilliant dog house.

arf arf

D

PS - it is still raining

I was lured up here by a weather forecast that promised three dray days

bumma

 

[jac]

arf arf

D

PS - it is still raining

I was lured up here by a weather forecast that promised three dray days

bumma

Yes but you need to shift your basis of comparison.

Dry for someone living in the home counties means it doesn't rain.
Dry for Scotland means not enough standing water for your wellies to flood.

 

[dylanwinter]

Yes but you need to shift your basis of comparison.

Dry for someone living in the home counties means it doesn't rain.
Dry for Scotland means not enough standing water for your wellies to flood.

It is raining hard - but according to the BBC it is not raining - yet!

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rain-in-dundee.gif

 

[westhinder]

arf arf



I was lured up here by a weather forecast that promised three dray days

bumma

you did not misread, by any chance? Dreich instead of dry?

 

[Giblets]

.......PS - has anyone started downloading those files - I am curious about download speeds

Started the first one and showed up as 2-3 hours but stabilised at 1 hour on wifi.

 

[awol]

I don't mean to complain - but.......

I have tried to discourage hydrophobic southerners from venturing north many times but various disingenuous posters, including yourself, Dylan, keep posting pictures of idyllic anchorages, heather covered hills, pristine waters, and waxing lyrical on the joys to be sampled up here. Stay in the south where you won't have to suffer the incessant rain, gales, midges, clegs, lack of basic amenities like fully serviced pontoons within range of a fully stocked Waitrose - the natives are even so unfriendly as not to raft up or anchor close to other boats (well, not very often).

Dylan is one of your own - believe him - he is unbiased.

 

[Bilgediver]

It is raining hard - but according to the BBC it is not raining - yet!

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/rain-in-dundee.gif

Well 50% right maybe..... Not raining in Port Edgar

 

[ronsurf]

I honestly don't know why anyone would want to go up there. I went once and I remember slipping on some frozen sick, which was a new experience at least.

 

[Wiesmier]

Well, here onn the Western Isles it has been a tad damp of late. Went out on a pals Cornish Crabber gaff rig for a few hours on Sunday - kitted up as one does for a mid summer sail - three layers plus waterproofs but it hammered down and I came in wit mild hypothermia and trenchfoot! http://freyja-yacht.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/34-midsummer-sail.html

 

[Steve_N]

He that goes to Scotland and is not bathed frequently in soft summer showers is a liar. ( or inside)

Actually, Dylan is just a stone's throw away from Leuchars which is often measured as the sunniest place in the UK, in terms of sunshine hours per annum. The rain must just follow him around.

 

[Humblebee]

"If you can see the hills, it's going to rain.
If you can't see the hills, it's raining."
What a summer!

 

[aslabend]

Dylan,
I grew up in Scotland and can remember rain and what you have there looks like mere drizzle to me. Mum used to walk us up Windy Hill in far worse during the summer hols.
Just get out and enjoy it

 

[Steve_N]

Dylan, rather than pictures of the rain, why not cheer us all up with pictures of the beautiful Holman & Pye Bowman 47 that lies against the sea wall, presuming that she's there. A pretty boat. The cogs are whirring trying to recall her name but I can't quite get it..

 

[aslabend]

Dylan, rather than pictures of the rain, why not cheer us all up with pictures of the beautiful Holman & Pye Bowman 47 that lies against the sea wall, presuming that she's there. A pretty boat. The cogs are whirring trying to recall her name but I can't quite get it..

Ooo, yes please - my dreamboat........