Storm - over reaction or not?

Well the storm affected me. I have no leccy at home and neither has my 90 year old Dad who lives next door.

I think I might de-camp and live on the boat tonight if the leccy is not back on.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
I'm still not convinced that this is't the boat from the incident I linked to above. Apart from anything else, I'm not aware of any swinging moorings anywhere near Brighton, so it's hard to imagine where it would have broken free from.

Cheers
Jimmy
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Agree with you Jimmy. Can't see how it could have been washed out of the marina into that position especially with the weather coming from the direction it did. Looks like it is the boat from the Argus story. Was the bloke who was arrested the owner or not? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Black Rock west of the marina in which case thats pretty much where you'd expect it to be washed up. The mystery is what did the RNLI do with the boat after they rescued the helmsman. Would they have just left it to drift?
 
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Agree with you Jimmy. Can't see how it could have been washed out of the marina into that position especially with the weather coming from the direction it did. Looks like it is the boat from the Argus story. Was the bloke who was arrested the owner or not? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Black Rock west of the marina in which case thats pretty much where you'd expect it to be washed up. The mystery is what did the RNLI do with the boat after they rescued the helmsman. Would they have just left it to drift?
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Black Rock is about halfway between the Marina and the Palace Pier, heading west as you say. I cant believe the RNLI would leave a boat to drift.
 
rafiki_ said:
Black Rock is about halfway between the Marina and the Palace Pier, heading west as you say. I cant believe the RNLI would leave a boat to drift.
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Maybe it was already aground and they thought it unsafe to try to tow it off but it's difficult to understand how they got close enough to get an occupant off but they couldn't get a line on at the same time? Anyway, I'm sure the RNLI knew exactly what they were doing and if they could have towed it back to the marina, they would have done. Maybe it was holed but there's no evidence of that in the pics?
 
how about this scenario: grounded high a dry due to loss off power, shore power connected after the event to 'somewhere' to recharge batteries awaiting next tide in an attempt to drive the boat off the beach, however, nasty foamy horrid weather comes in to play from Sunday onwards preventing that plan to be put into place.

second scenario: some pee'd up numpty who hasn't a scooby doo about boats nicked it from Brighton Marina for a joy ride on Saturday night/morning after a night on the lash, didn't bother unplugging the shorepower from the boat (or couldn't as this model is a bitch to disconnect boat side) but unplugged from the pontoon, went for a jolly, beached it so as not to get nicked by returning to the marina. spotted by plod however who met the fella when he attempted to leg it

third scenario: over to you :)
 
Part of the story of the beached boat are on RNLIBrighton's twitter feed from Saturday morning.

"Called to a 'MAYDAY'"

"The lifeboat was unable to assist the boat as severe weather stopped us getting in. The male was safe and well with Brighton beach office"
https://twitter.com/RNLIBrighton/status/393976365210681344

and one about the boat being moved to a safe distance from the sea by the FRS
https://twitter.com/RNLIBrighton/status/394053918042619904

There a some pics of it on the twitter feed too.


Mark
 
0550 this morning bramblemet registered 59.something knots, I went to check the boat at this time, being HW, boat was fine (on a swing), predicted high was 3.9mtres neap at Calshot, when I got there it was more like 4.9, I guess a combination of 80 knot so'westerly pushing the tide up the Solent combined with a heavy depression = a lot of water with nowhere to go but up. if it had been a spring tide it might have been a very different tale.
 
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