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[Bouba]

Might it get wet?

I don’t know if this photo will fully capture the situation…down river from this weir is the takeout place. The river is almost a torrent…the ground for fifty miles is sodden and not absorbing water…so it’s all making its way to this river then out to sea…it takes the river from 7 to 10 days to calm down after a deluge…unfortunately it’s been constantly raining and more rain is expected.
Navigating against this in a single engine boat with underpowered thrusters because the boat has a beard…can be challenging

 

[Bouba]

Before I try it…I will do a full threat assessment…drive by the river….check the estuary…check out the table out place. Then I will make a decision

 

[capnsensible]

Before I try it…I will do a full threat assessment…drive by the river….check the estuary…check out the table out place. Then I will make a decision

Mmm. Isn't the lift out dock you need to be checking? Being serious. Is it a cross tide entry into the lift? Does the yard have a workboat to assist like a tug ? I agree, if it looks dodgy it probably is and a delay is normally best.

 

[Bouba]

Mmm. Isn't the lift out dock you need to be checking? Being serious. Is it a cross tide entry into the lift? Does the yard have a workboat to assist like a tug ? I agree, if it looks dodgy it probably is and a delay is normally best.

Yes, they have a workboat.....my original plan is to go during a break in the weather on Monday while the yard is closed...and tie up overnight. Yes, a delay is possible....

 

[Bouba]

So last night, after I finished posting my concerns about the weather....there was the mother of all electrical storms....with brief but torrential rains. The rivers are now swollen....and as the run offs from the mountains make their way to the sea, they will possibly get worse....gotta love this boating life

 

[capnsensible]

So last night, after I finished posting my concerns about the weather....there was the mother of all electrical storms....with brief but torrential rains. The rivers are now swollen....and as the run offs from the mountains make their way to the sea, they will possibly get worse....gotta love this boating life

During our last lift out in the UK, one April, I was antifouling in the snow....

 

[Blueboatman]

If Bouba moored his boat in this outflow would that kill the barnacles thus no haulouts needed just yet?

Bonus question: What anchor is best for a mountain stream turned torrential outpouring?

 

[Bouba]

If Bouba moored his boat in this outflow would that kill the barnacles thus no haulouts needed just yet?

Bonus question: What anchor is best for a mountain stream turned torrential outpouring?

I have slime...not really barnacles....except those tiny little ones...and those that look like calcium squeezed out of tiny toothpaste tubes.
Bonus answer: Rocna

 

[Bouba]

I wish I knew all the names of that which sticks to my hull....I could ask ingenious.....he regularly eats that stuff

 

[ingenious]

I wish I knew all the names of that which sticks to my hull....I could ask ingenious.....he regularly eats that stuff

"And yet the weird thing was that the cooks in Genua had nothing edible to cook; at least, not what Nanny would have thought of as food. To her mind, food went around on four legs, or possibly one pair of legs and one pair of wings. Or at least it had fins on. The idea of food with more than four legs was an entirely new kettle of fi— of miscellaneous swimming things.

They didn’t have much to cook in Genua. So they cooked everything. Nanny had never heard of prawns or crawfish or lobsters; it just looked to her as though the citizens of Genua dredged the river bottom and boiled whatever came up.

The point was that a good Genuan cook could more or less take the squeezings of a handful of mud, a few dead leaves and a pinch or two of some unpronounceable herbs and produce a meal to make a gourmet burst into tears of gratitude and swear to be a better person for the rest of their entire life if they could just have one more plateful."

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
(Genua is a sort of Discworld equivalent of New Orleans and South of France)

 

[Seastoke]

I don’t know if this photo will fully capture the situation…down river from this weir is the takeout place. The river is almost a torrent…the ground for fifty miles is sodden and not absorbing water…so it’s all making its way to this river then out to sea…it takes the river from 7 to 10 days to calm down after a deluge…unfortunately it’s been constantly raining and more rain is expected.
Navigating against this in a single engine boat with underpowered thrusters because the boat has a beard…can be challenging

Those skyes look full of rain.

 

[Wansworth]

Those skyes look full of rain.

Remember Bouba is doing this so we don’t have to!

 

[capnsensible]

I have slime...not really barnacles....except those tiny little ones...and those that look like calcium squeezed out of tiny toothpaste tubes.

You should get that seen to before you go out in public and scare people.

 

[Bouba]

It’s raining

 

[capnsensible]

It’s raining

Mebbe put the lift back for a couple of weeks?

 

[Bouba]

Mebbe put the lift back for a couple of weeks?

I do have a time limit.....I have to vacate my winter mooring by the end of this month

 

[capnsensible]

I do have a time limit.....I have to vacate my winter mooring by the end of this month

Boats are never easy. Hope it all works out.

 

[Bouba]

Boats are never easy. Hope it all works out.

It’s going from the sublime to the ridiculous…after the rain stops…the winds are coming…and I’m talking about F10

 

[ingenious]

It’s going from the sublime to the ridiculous…after the rain stops…the winds are coming…and I’m talking about F10

Just make sure it's better for a week Tuesday

 

[Bouba]

Just make sure it's better for a week Tuesday

I’ll do my best