NCI Polruan wind gauge 'flatlined' at 04.10 hrs

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High wind speed recorded as 56.5kts. Now reading nil, since 04.10hrs.

Hopefully somebody's out there, looking for a fly-away anemometer.

Big seas around the Minack Theatre, on their web cam.

Boat out Thursday. Maybe I was a week late?
 
We came back from Roscoff on the overnight sailing last night. Left an hour early and made a fast crossing to avoid the winds: entered Plymouth harbour at about 0130 but were kept on board until normal disembarkation time of 0800. Quite lumpy even in the ferry port, engines running astern to hold the ship off the quay whilst unloading. Quite glad to have missed the winds in the channel....
 
To quote Mark Fishwick's 'West Country Cruising'...

.....west of the lizard's no place for a small boat come the end of september....

In October 2017 I was picking up gear between The lizard and Mullion, it was more quiet than I ever remember at any time of year, I was able to put the (32ft, 14 ton) boat alongside the rock face, just to say I did. No camera, unfortunately.
 
Aye, laddie, but you're a local and 'you know yer onions'. If I tried that, I'd get a couple of column inches in the local rag and - if really lucky - a ride back to the beach in a big orange-and-black watertaxi......
 
Whew! The anemometer at Polruan lives! Don't when it was revived, but it's working this Monday morning.

I'd like a nearer one to me but the old St Mawes one seemed to shut down and Culdrose (HMS Seahawk ) has a different format.
 
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