Nav help please!!

[Guest]

According to the weather link on the bottom nav bar, Saturday looks breezy and distinctly lumpy - not at all boating weather. Sunday is less windy but there'll be confused seas - slow and sloppy going.
Grab an early Sunday lunch at the Top Deck, leave before 1300, take Monday off and try to transit Dover Strait before the next front arrives Monday pm, get some Kentish lee.
And make sure you've taken a few seasickness pills before lunch - just in case.

 

[billskip]

think you need more practice+experiance before you go ..try getting more experiance with an experianced skipper...being cought out is one thing ..going out is another..if you go and make it you will wonder wot allfuss is about..but if you dont .....when in doubt dont go out...

 

[Piers]

Try the following sites.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/England.shtml

is for actual reports of the marine buoys around the UK. Always good for a last minute check. And if you are worried about the wind possibly increasing, look at one of the buoys up wind and see it it's stronger. If it is, it's possibly coming your way! The historic detail is useful as well.


http://www.ecmwf.int/

An excellent isobaric chart from a most reputable source for medium range forecasting.

....use the North Atlantic Area - Surface MSL pressure chart. Select the number of days forward from today and go for it. To the right of the selection is an Advanced button. Use this for a scrolling chart.

Sometimes it makes your eyes water....

Piers du Pre
MBM Cruising Club enthusiast

 

[Piers]

By the way, when I used to fly, we used the expression "when there's doubt, there's no doubt...."

Piers du Pre
MBM Cruising Club enthusiast

 

[traceyandsteve]

We've spoken to the Met office and it looks as though Saturday is a definite no go. We'll play the waiting game now and see whether Sunday's forecast still looks okay. It's not looking too bad at the moment, so it may be a two-legged affair over Sunday and Monday.

I really appreciate all the advice. We've got a fair bit of experience at sea, and we did North Foreland in a six last year with wind and tide all over the place, which wasn't a barrel of laughs. I think common sense has prevailed this time.

The main driver for us is that if we can't get it done this weekend, then it will have to be in the new year, and understandably, our friends want to get their new boat back so that they can start playing and get it refurbed.

Still, you can't argue with the sea can you.

Thanks again

T

 

[Guest]

Re: BAD ADVICE Nipper

Sorry nipper, but you've got a green flag on your name. So you work for a boat mag, right? This boat mag. So you have an air of authority, yes, more so that others on this BB. Yet this is raving stupid, imho, and indeed by many other yardstick too.

First off they're east coasty. They don't know the area. Their mates don't know boats at all. You start casually advising "grabbing lunch at the Top deck" won't help. Its a force 3-4 sunday, then "later East 4-5" which means after lunch. Setting off at 1300 will send them into max 3 hours of daylight, and a 4-5 on the nose. With rain. This is without even considering tides. or even the gales on Monday. Or the fact that they've never seen looe channel and so on, and the other two who own the boat have not really seen the sea.

THE ANSWER FOR THAT BOAT CREW CONDITIONS IS DON'T GO!!! And you should have said so, loud and clear, mr Nipper.

all, imho naturally, and no offence etc etc.

 

[JohnR]

Re: weather!!

Not the Pig and Whistle of which I am supposed to be a lifetime member but which seems to be some strange lunching place these days?

 

[Guest]

Re: get truck

I'm all for a nice sea trip. or even a half-ok sea trip. But not in that. Sunday is windy and rainy. This allows team bonding to be completely finished in the first ten minutes, after which the trip is horrid, and extremely off-putting for anyone new to boating.

there are numbers for road transport, who will sort it all out, and then little jollies over the winter.

 

[JohnR]

Re: weather ?

http://www.ecmwf.int is where I get my synoptic charts and which shows a low right over Ramsgate for Tuesday.

 

[peterg]

truck it

but they may have to wait a while as the transport companies may be busy getting boats to Earls Court

 

[Guest]

Re: truck contact numbers

perhaps try:
Interboat 0118 942 3877
transboat 01202 632778
clarks 01489 892883
anglo 01803 528652
exonia 01404 46789
ashley 01734 814 809

or others?

 

[traceyandsteve]

Re: truck contact numbers

ooh, even more thank you's. I don't think our friends want to consider the land option. They'll pay visitors fees at Southsea until a) we're available to help them bring it home and b) the weather is good enough. Of course we could be looking at next May, but what the hell, they might as well get used to spending money!

T

 

[ccscott49]

Re: BAD ADVICE Nipper

Very well said MattS he should know better, if he doesnt know better he should have kept his mouth firmly closed. "Its better to let somebody think you are a fool, than open your mouth and confirm it"

 

[markc]

Used to have Fairline 40 myself, and have done said journey in it. It is a fairly comfortable sea boat, dry up top, but due to not having a really deep V, can be pretty rolling in quartering seas.

However, my view with a non-tried and tested boat is to plan for the worst....go in calm weather. If I had a breakdown in a 5+ in an unknown boat it would be v. difficult, the same situation in 2-3 would be much easier to deal with. there again, I am a bit of a wimp, or self preservationist (perhaps from being on a boat that has sunk, and one that has caught fire!!!)

Great tripe tho if the weather is with you !!

Mark

 

[ccscott49]

Where do you get the tripe, Ramsgate

 

[paulineb]

tripe ??

Pauline B

 

[markc]

Ha, ha!! didn't notice that!!!, Well sputted, or spotted?!

 

[billskip]

get tripe off the nooorweeegeeeiiiaaann oil rigs dont tthey?? sorry got a stuuuttter

 

[traceyandsteve]

Thanks for all the advice on tripe and trip! Hate the former, and have decided most definitely to postpone the latter (phew!). Now, having caused cyber fisticuffs between the BB and Nipper, I shall retire back into the shadows.

Tracey

 

[billskip]

think u get a brownie point for most replies in shortest time..unless ... watch this space...