Thanks for talking me out of it!

[Moonshining]

While yesterday sitting watching the wind and rain from the comfort of the drawing room of Sot Towers, I was exceeding grateful for being persuaded by you lot that trying to get into Chichester Harbour yesterday afternoon would be A Bad Thing.

Did anybody else venture out?

 

[StugeronSteve]

Yep, I ventured out of the house as far as the wheelie bin yesterday afternoon. And swmbo made me do that!

 

[Sans Bateau]

Paul

I posted a sort of PS to the original thread, I was watching Chimet yesterday from time to time!

Driving daughter back to Walton on Thames yesterday eve, from Chichester, I have'nt seen rain like it in ages!

 

[Perry]

We had a great weekend in the Solent, best sail for ages on Friday and Saturday but it was awful yesterday coming back from Cowes to Hamble point Marina.

 

[StugeronSteve]

I took daughter back to uni, in Brum, last night. Fantastic firework display over the city centre, to mark the end of the European Indoor Athletics, despite the rain.

 

[gjbentley]

We had an easy sail on Saturday, with a F4 - F5 behind us as we left Portsmouth Harbour entrance and headed East to Langstone Harbour.

The plan was to come back early Sunday morning with the forecasted wind having backed to the SE. But instead we had a southerly wind of F6 - 7, gusting F8. This meant we could not get out of the harbour with the Langstone sand bar causing a very rough sea when the tide was ebbing, and on a flood it was a raging tidal torrent that the engine on Grand Slam would not have coped with in trying to motor against. So from a safety point of view I decided not to take any chances and wait for fairer weather.

Left Grand Slam in Southsea Marina until end of week, and got a taxi back to Portsmouth !

 

[l'escargot]

You would have been lulled into a false sense of security. Flat calm off of Cowes during the afternoon and Egypt point was the flatest I've seen in a long time, but only because there was so much south in the wind - even a couple of kites up. Would have been a different story as you started east.

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

What? It's been incredibly hot and sunny for days now without any rain! Strange.... did I sleep through the bad weather? Oh no... I remember, Chichister is in England! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif