Massive squall this morning.

[Daydream believer]

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Bradwell marina regularly put additional braces to the cradles if they expect bad weather. On my cradle they insert extension feet & vertical timbers to the chain plates.
One would have thought that any responsible marina operator would have foreseen that & taken measures to avoid such damage

 

[Elessar]

Caught the start of it on video. Then my fenders needed resetting and it all went a bit mental. So the worst bit isn’t captured.

Hamble visitor pontoon 1

Hamble visitor pontoon 2

 

[TiggerToo]

Not that bad in Cornwall, or at least where we were in the Helford last night; peak gust we saw was 40kts after the veer to the WSW, before that winds from the S were just shy of 30kts. Securité CG broadcast at ~21:45 for Lundy & Fastnet for F9 incr F10 soon however, so we were glad to be in a snug anchorage! Fast sail back into the Fal this morning, with only one other yacht out.

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We had a wonderful time trying out our newly fitted hydrovane. Tigger has now got a permanent companion, she's called Winnie .

(the squall was preceded by what could only be described as "monsoon" rain in the middle of the night - Helford was a wonderful place to be at anchor)

 

[Bobc]

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We had a wonderful time trying out our newly fitted hydrovane. Tigger has now got a permanent companion, she's called Winnie .

(the squall was preceded by what could only be described as "monsoon" rain in the middle of the night - Helford was a wonderful place to be at anchor)

It was a strip about 20km wide that got the big winds, that went from around Poole/Weymouth, across the country to Lincolnshire.

We had 70mph in Oxfordshire apparently.

 

[jdc]

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Yes it was - thanks for the nice pic! Tigger Too looked very fine also.