Liveaboard in Geneva

[summetime62]

Looking for a Liveaboard in Geneva. Fat chance I know but has anyone got any leads???/

Answers preferred to greg6200@hotmail.com

 

[BrianH]

Looking for a Liveaboard in Geneva. Fat chance I know but has anyone got any leads???/

Answers preferred to greg6200@hotmail.com

Geneva is one place where I would not like to liveaboard in winter:

 

[macd]

Well, you've convinced me, Barnac1e.
Excellent shots, by the way: worth two thousand words in anyone's money.

 

[Ric]

There are some better photos from about 99ish with half a dozen boats completely capsized and sunken due to ice.

 

[BrianH]

A strong Bise (NE wind) of 50 kts combined with temperatures remaining below -10°C for many days occurred in February, 2012. With the long fetch of the lake of Geneva to build up waves to pound against the harbour walls, the resultant fresh water spray freezes over everything, including any boat afloat such that the weight can sink a craft and on rigging aloft can cause a capsize. No one winters aboard in Geneva.

The following photo series shows some amazing scenes of the harbour area and adjacent Rive at that time.

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[rivonia]

Any chance you can post this to my facebook page = Peter Dixon.

 

[BrianH]

Any chance you can post this to my facebook page = Peter Dixon.

If you are referring to the previous post with the two videos, I'm sorry, as a dinosaur who has no FB page and is a non-practitioner of any social media activity, I wouldn't know how.

However, both are publicly available on YouTube, which, by clicking on the YouTube link, you can access and link to, just as I did.

Another dramatic photograph:

 

[Sybarite]

I remember being in Geneva about a month after the Bise Noire - there was still heavy ice everywhere.

 

[Grehan]

wow . . we had a pretty cold over-winter in St Jean de Losne (near Dijon) but I can see that we had it easy. Excellent, scary, pics. Thanks.