Chrissie
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I will go with the majority, but please remember to tell me, I dont want to be the only one sat soggy and wet in Poole if everyone else is warm and cosy in a pub elsewhere 
Scuttlebutt Solent to Poole Novice Cruise - Spring 2012
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PhillM
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I will go with the majority, but please remember to tell me, I dont want to be the only one sat soggy and wet in Poole if everyone else is warm and cosy in a pub elsewhere
We won't, I promise. Mind you I'm stuck on the sofa having put my back out reaching for shower soap. What a hard, self sufficient sailor I've turned out to be! Hoping a couple of days off work to be ok for Friday.
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Giblets
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PhillM
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There's no answer to that!
I know. Sad but true.
This jaunt / thread started in November when Russell and I were trying to work out tides for a round the island. Andy Suggested we go to Poole first...
I'll be gutted if I cannot make it for such a silly reason.
prv
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There's no answer to that!
Rather depends whether he was reaching out for soap, or down
Pete
Ru88ell
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Is it looking any better on your choice of forecast?
I'm planning to leave home with the boat at 5am tomorrow and launch at Northney around 9:30 - then chase Lustyd over to East Cowes.
I'm planning to leave home with the boat at 5am tomorrow and launch at Northney around 9:30 - then chase Lustyd over to East Cowes.
prv
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Definitely not looking too windy on Windguru WRF 9km (their most "accurate" forecast, although still an automated model). Threes and fours northeasterly - some gusts to six but that's only in the early hours of Saturday morning, dying down again by 7am. Slight spit of rain at the same time, otherwise clear.
WRF doesn't predict beyond that, so for the rest of the weekend I'm going off GFS, which says twos and threes, albeit some gusts to five on Monday accompanied by a little rain.
Not as beautifully sunny as I'd been expecting last month, but not at all bad in light of recent weather.
Pete
Natterjack
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looks like I be leaving Folly/Cowes around 9am Friday morning minus swmbo
Couldn't get the day off work so she will be meeting us at Yarmouth sometime in the afternoon.
Couldn't get the day off work so she will be meeting us at Yarmouth sometime in the afternoon.
Moonshining
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Did we ever decide on a channel to use?
prv
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looks like I be leaving Folly/Cowes around 9am Friday morning minus swmbo
Couldn't get the day off work so she will be meeting us at Yarmouth sometime in the afternoon.
Join the club, my mates are doing similar. Except they're getting the train from Bristol so it'll be evening rather than afternoon.
Pete
prv
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Not that I noticed.
Officially it should be one of 06, 08, 72, 77. Ought to be nothing to choose between them, unless someone who listens to the radio more than me knows that one of them is the local unofficial whelk-fisherman's nattering channel or something.
Pete
Ru88ell
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[Executive Decision] Let's use 08, as it's half of 16 and therefore easier for me to remember. [/Executive Decision]
Moonshining
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77 then? (No, I don't know if that's reserved for inter-whelk communications)
Moonshining
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It's Cowes Water Taxi. Forget that one!
Moonshining
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Just a boatyard and the Itchenor Ferry, according to this http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/freqlists/vhfmarinebases.pdf , so I reckon that should work.
prv
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Ru88ell
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Just to clear that up, the Scuttlebutt Novice Cruise channel is 08.
Who's going to be first to ask for a radio check?
Who's going to be first to ask for a radio check?
Giblets
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Right, team, here we are sitting in the marina bar at Southsea after prepping the boat for the morning having a beer or two before a very nice looking steak 'n ale pie (start as we intend to go on says my crew!)
We have to make a quick call to Ron Hale's chandlers in the morning so should be away from here by 1030ish.
)We have to make a quick call to Ron Hale's chandlers in the morning so should be away from here by 1030ish.
prv
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Grrr. Tomorrow I'll be heading into work and manically trying to finish all the stuff that needs to be done by Tuesday and now has no Friday or Monday in which to do it
About to leave work now, I do have beer and some posh burgers in the fridge when I get home, so not all bad...
Pete
Chrissie
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For all of you setting out tomorrow, I wish you fair winds, I shall join you at Yarmouth at some point on Friday, I have a few jobs to do on Friday morning, then quickly provision the boat and try and catch up with you all,