Newtown Creek, fabulous weather and a slight hiccup (pics)

[fireball]

his anchor was under my boat and i wondered how he was planning to leave

I've had a similar problem - another boat (yacht) anchored uptide of me and ended up over my anchor - when it came to leave I motored forward with SWMBO gathering in the chain (elec windlass) - got to a couple of feet off his transom and he just stood in his cockpit looking at me as though I was stupid ... wouldn't have been hard for him just to swing his wheel over and let the current clear him from my anchor ...
so - seeing his inaction I instructed SWMBO just to stop winding in, put the boat in reverse and dragged the anchor out backwards ... at this stage we had just over 1:1 scope - so it dragged easily .. once clear, stopped the reverse, retrieved the rest of the gear and went on our way ...
Easy!

 

[MapisM]

Impressive pics indeed!
In some of them, it looks like the surface tension could have kept an anchor afloat...

That warm that son #1 and SWMBO went for a swim (in UK waters, in October).

Out of curiosity, did you check the actual water temperature?

 

[kcrane]

Impressive pics indeed!
In some of them, it looks like the surface tension could have kept an anchor afloat...


Out of curiosity, did you check the actual water temperature?

Forgot I could do that!

 

[jfm]

Yep, all the photos from the iPhone. Pano rather obviously for the wide-angle and an app called Camera+ for regular shots (it allows you to choose where to focus and where to expose for, and then let's do some tweaks and add borders).

Funnily enough we were sat in the heat saying "if only you could get in the water the same way you can in the Med..." which led to pushing out the passarelle and jumping in anyway. Flipping cold tho.

Rita and I drop to a 4 day week as of today, so we're getting closer. We'll take a long weekend and come and buy you dinner ;-)

you have an open invitation to drop by and check out Cote D'Azur anytime you wish. The v48 would drop on a truck and could easily be returned to UK if you decide it's not for you. £5k each way, approx. V48 is an ideal boat because it's nice and big and therefore has the long legs needed to be able to cover Balearics-france-Corsica (say) without forever worrying about weather. You have to be happy with lots of flights of course, plus in your case the slight schlepp to the airport at the UK end. I can say smugly that the travel is easy, but that's only becuase I'm London centric so have 17+ flights a day to choose from. You will have less choice with Bristol, though of course it is a very easy airport being small etc etc, as you know

 

[wonky]

Out of curiosity, did you check the actual water temperature?

It was 17.9 in the Itchen yesterday

Wouldn't get me in there though we had a large fence pulled out and I saw a syringe race by too...lovely!

 

[[2068]]

Dived in from tucked in behind Hurst Castle on Sunday: not exactly med temperature, but entirely swimmable given some built in blubber. 7yr old was fine with a wetsuit.

 

[[2068]]

It was 17.9 in the Itchen yesterday

Wouldn't get me in there though we had a large fence pulled out and I saw a syringe race by too...lovely!

Heard of a new-ish class of racing dinghy known as a "Moth". Is a "Syringe" a derivative?

 

[OAF]

Impressive pics indeed!
In some of them, it looks like the surface tension could have kept an anchor afloat...


Out of curiosity, did you check the actual water temperature?

7C in Swanage bay at 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, and all four of us went swimming, two with suits on and two without, it was a little chilly at first.

at midnight the occupants on the boat next door decided to go skinny dipping! now that I reckon must have been nippy, I swung the spot light around to make sure everyone was ok (honest) and by the looks of them it was cold!!