The wind or not the wind?

[Ballistix]

That is the question! This weekend...Solent...

Smallish boat with 4 month old...do we risk it Sunday...weather looks cracking..

Moving weather says 4-5Mph Met office says 10 with gusts...who to believe..

T

 

[gjgm]

dont forget the sun tan lotion... !

 

[jhr]

Windguru says N-NE 10 knots in the morning, dropping to E 4 or 5 knots in the afternoon. If it's from the N, you should be sheltered by the Mainland.

Go for it! (I've also got a smallish boat and I'll be out, if the yard has fixed the traditional post-launch mechanical problem by then /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif)

 

[Questor]

Let me know where you're going and I'll go somewhere else, as it always seems to rain where you are. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[neale]

I'll second wind guru on that forecast. Looks exactly the same as I see.

Wind looks like it will pick up sat night and early sun morning to possible 15 knots, but drop off again as Sunday progresses.

 

[Firefly625]

..If you wait for a better forecast than Sunday's you might never go out! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Ballistix]

:S It's just a 4 month old baby on board offers some new challenges...and I don't want a stressed mother...nothing worse..but I'm guessing I'll force them to go /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Ballistix]

Hmm...once again the met putting the wind speeds up again...I just can't warrant driving 3 hrs (combined trip) and putting a 4 month old through it to only get there and not being able to go out...met now saying 15mph which is too windy for us...shame...

Having said that a mate said he want from Poole to Lymington last night and it was dead calm (circa 3ish). Gah...and Bramblenet is down atm.. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I fear the same jetstream wind nonsense as last year once again upon us..

T

 

[Firefly625]

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:S It's just a 4 month old baby on board offers some new challenges...and I don't want a stressed mother...nothing worse..but I'm guessing I'll force them to go /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Ballistix, you know your "crew", the last thing you want to do is put them off!! So may have been a bit gun hoe about going out when perhaps they shouldn't and have ended up putting previously willing partners off boating for life!!! Go with your instinct, I wouldn't like to be the one to blame!!! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Ballistix]

You won't don't worry /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. I'm always desperate to come down but the worst thing is getting on the boat and going out there and it's choppy...just right now whilst we are testing it out with the baby.

Probably wake up tomorrow and just make the call then /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Cheers
T

 

[Richard10002]

GRIB.US suggests about 9 knots N'ly at 9am, 8 knots NE'ly 1200, 5 knots E'ly at 3pm, 1 knot E'ly at 6pm.

Looks like a nice day for it, with the wind dropping as the day goes on.

Richard

 

[geardownthreegreens]

You and i T, think exactly alike. Cant stand the wind chopping things up out there. Were both own smallish boats and there's nothing worse than being thrown about all day. Your near oxford and i'm in chelt and its a bloody long drive to be dissapointed. Think we should move closer to coast mate,problem solved /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Ballistix]

Thganks Richard.
Yes Gilly1...it is a long drive and with kids! Will suck it and see I guess..
T

 

[Ballistix]

So how was it in the Solent today, I'm curious to see how they got the forecast /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
T

 

[Richard10002]

Didnt you go? If the Grib is to be believed, it is saying that it was exactly as forecast - 8 or 9 knots early on, then dropping as the day went on.

 

[Pete7]

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So how was it in the Solent today, I'm curious to see how they got the forecast /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif T

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Compared to the forecast they were miles out on Sunday. Saturday night was flat calm in Lymington with very clear skies. We shivered under the duveys during the night. Light wind at 7am when we walked the dog but by 9am it was building. By 10 am peeps we leaving Lymington with reefs in and it continued until mid day before slowly calming down again. Saw several dinghy sailors get an early morning bath as they capsized in the gusts and a fleet of folkboats were leaning right over going to windward. However the wind was a bitterly cold north easterly which only dropped when we arrived back in Portsmouth about 2pm /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Can't give you a wind speed because the wind thingy on top of the mast has broken, but Sotonmet gives reasonable details.

http://www.sotonmet.co.uk/(jy4qqe45wtbgrb45p1rfh455)/wind.htm

Pete

 

[Ballistix]

Yeah, it looks quite windy from that graphs. Thanks for the feedback.

T

 

[Ballistix]

Hi, hope to go down Wednesday weather pending...

 

[[2068]]

I was fiddling around with maintenance tasks Sunday, and it didn't drop at the Eastern end of the Solent until 2pm - ish. I went out for a quick blast to clear the cobwebs, and it was lovely: a push down the Solent, then the wind pretty much died on the way back.

Earlier part of the day was F5 and a bit bouncy.

dv.

 

[Ballistix]

Fingers crossed for Wed then!