Sahara Sand

[Deleted member 478]

[GrumpyGit]I've just swept enough Sahara sand off my solar panels to resupply a nudist beach. To do this, I need to stand on a ladder. Of course the water taxis come speeding passed in the hopes of seeing their wake knock me off my ladder.

Grrrrr[/GrumpyGit]

 

[veshengro]

I was once berthed in Sliema in Malta when the Sahara dumped about an inch of sand on deck. Spent the morning sweeping and washing down and when I went on deck the next morning the wind had gone round and there was bloody grey ash everywhere from Mt Etna which was having one of it's funny turns...

 

[Graham376]

[GrumpyGit]I've just swept enough Sahara sand off my solar panels to resupply a nudist beach. To do this, I need to stand on a ladder. Of course the water taxis come speeding passed in the hopes of seeing their wake knock me off my ladder.

Grrrrr[/GrumpyGit]

You're still in the Ria? Guarantee when we get back in January, there will be loads of bird **** on the boat as well as sand

 

[Boathook]

[GrumpyGit]I've just swept enough Sahara sand off my solar panels to resupply a nudist beach. To do this, I need to stand on a ladder. Of course the water taxis come speeding passed in the hopes of seeing their wake knock me off my ladder.

Grrrrr[/GrumpyGit]

Bit of a bugger being kept away from the bar old chap ....

To cheer you up it is just over 2C in Surrey but it has stopped raining at the moment.

 

[shan]

[GrumpyGit]I've just swept enough Sahara sand off my solar panels to resupply a nudist beach. To do this, I need to stand on a ladder. Of course the water taxis come speeding passed in the hopes of seeing their wake knock me off my ladder.

Grrrrr[/GrumpyGit]

You have made me want to take a water taxi - let me know when the Sahara sand needs cleaning again....

 

[veshengro]

Full ahead and round and round the she goes...Whatta wake...

 

[Deleted member 478]

You have made me want to take a water taxi - let me know when the Sahara sand needs cleaning again....

Let me know how the water taxi got a rope wrapped around his prop?

 

[DownWest]

Friend from around there (Vilamoura) that I sailed to Gib with a few times in a classic 36 cold moulded sloop, decide to go further. So bolted on a windvane and set off south. He was off Africa when the winds deposited huge amounts of the sand. Built up to a cm or more on the rigging's windward side and he lived and breathed sand for weeks after. It got everywhere. More weeks to clean it out.
Ended up in Rio for the Carnival.
Here's me at the helm of Woodwind..


I have rather less hair now...

 

[BobnLesley]

We got heavily coated with Saharan sand sand in Mindelo Cape Verde in Dec 2012 and never did get rid of it all; I recall washing/wiping it out beneath the cockpit sole when replacing rudder seals and bearings in NZ in 2020.

 

[Dogone]

We get Sahara sand almost everywhere we go. Crazy eh?

 

[Bouba]

The real problem is that the Sahara sand only comes during a hose pipe ban

 

[capnsensible]

In the Canaries there is an easterly wind event a few times a year called calima. Being relatively close to the Sahara, cleaning up is a forever job. The sand is very fine, like talcum powder. Once this fact of nature is accepted, it 8s OK to live with albeit a tad uncomfortable at times.

 

[capnsensible]

 

[Bouba]

I do remember a time when frogs where arriving with the sand

 

[Graham376]

I do remember a time when frogs where arriving with the sand

I wonder how many folks though of a politically incorrect reply to that

 

[shan]

Let me know how the water taxi got a rope wrapped around his prop?

I have advised him to invest in a rope cutter. Should give you an extra jolt.....

 

[Deleted member 478]

I have advised him to invest in a rope cutter. Should give you an extra jolt.....

Thank fork for the rain this morning, which probably saved your water taxi buying a new prop and gear box.

Result for both of us

 

[shan]

Thank fork for the rain this morning, which probably saved your water taxi buying a new prop and gear box.

Result for both of us

Hmmm, we had a bit of drizzle yesterday but nothing this morning.

 

[Star-Lord]

[GrumpyGit]I've just swept enough Sahara sand off my solar panels to resupply a nudist beach. To do this, I need to stand on a ladder. Of course the water taxis come speeding passed in the hopes of seeing their wake knock me off my ladder.

Grrrrr[/GrumpyGit]

Do you remember the time Algarve decks were covered in ash from the bush fires

 

[greeny]

I was in Portimao anchorage at the time. Woke up to the smell of burning. Ash, some of it still hot all over the deck. Spent the rest of the night with buckets of water at the ready. Soaked the stackpack with seawater to protect it.