| --- RECENT WIND SPEEDS --- | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date/Time (UTC) | Average | Gust | |||
| Speed (Knots) | Direction (Deg) | Speed (Knots) | Direction (Deg) | ||
| 27 Dec 05:00 | 43.9 | SSW | 60.6 | SSW | |
| 06:00 | 40.3 | SW | 67.8 | SSW | |
| 07:00 | 23.8 | WSW | 42.2 | SW | |
| 08:00 | 20.2 | SW | 28.7 | SW | |
| 09:00 |
Several saily boats had shredded sails on display next morning maybe they will learn next time that headsails need several wraps of sheets around maybe plus an extra safety tie. Good business for sailmakers mind.
i was in Toronto Canada on business and first thing my customer said was 'shame about the hurricane in Britain' I said 'don't be daft, what hurricane? ' Then it was on TV News, Bugger, my boat is still on it's mooring (I hope) When back home some 3 weeks later and able to go check the boat (Elizabethan 30 back then) I found it was just fine and a fairy liquid bottle left on galley worktop was still upright even. Phew!
All tempered anyway as what later became the current Admiral flew in from Indiana to join me in Toronto for a few days R&R and sight seeing around Niagara. What times indeed, in my case not all bad, I got lucky on both counts. Liz 30 was sold shortly after and replaced by a W33 ketch. Current Admiral arrived in UK 2nd Jan 1988 and was scraping 10 years of antifoul off the W33 in sub zero temps the following weekend. And she though yachting was all like in the Martini adverts! And 33 years on she is as lovely as ever (but refuses to antifoul)
Mine just filled us up with freshwater out in the cold frosty but sunny day here, still wearing that ring although a discussion about us not gathering with others living on board hereabouts tonight did not go down so well and she is Matt Hancock's #1 fan too.Just as soon as she has that ring on her finger all sorts of things stop , ask me how I know.
Walking along a towpath , noticed a young lady standing on the river bank (with totally unsuitable clothing) with her boyfriend fishing merrily away in the icy cold.
The above statement immediately sprang to mind.
It was a strange one the damage was in clear lines like a tornado had gone through so you might have been lucky. Woods behind our house in Suffolk had a path with parallel edges of standing trees either side of a swathe of total devastation about 200m across. I think it was similarly patchy in tunstall and rendlesham forests, pine growing on sandy soil didn't stand a chance where it hit.
Others in Poole were not so lucky I was told but as the club mooring master at the time our moorings were maintained to a very high standard, self interest in part of course but pride too. Boats that did break adrift in Poole Harbour were a) not on our club laid moorings and/or b) had rope strops whereas we had chains.
Mine just filled us up with freshwater out in the cold frosty but sunny day here, still wearing that ring although a discussion about us not gathering with others living on board hereabouts tonight did not go down so well and she is Matt Hancock's #1 fan too.
So thats 2 fans then for Mr Hancock, though suspect the other one would be his mum and possibly doubts there as well
