Let me know: we've been having the Friday F8 feeling for several weeks now! Plus one Tuesday in Mevagissey and tomorrow in Gosport.Poor sods.
Sanity check, this is August isn’t it? Or have we suddenly jumped into November?
What were they doing out there in such weather anyway?
Salcombe is quite some distance from 'Lake Solent'. Last time I did that passage, it was just a tad more that a day, but you do need to add about six hours as I was leaving Plymouth. Hang on we were 10 nm south of St. Catherine's Lighthouse.Quite probably sailing? There is more to the hobby that day trips around the Solent picking and choosing the weather to go out in.
One (at least) of my pilot books references often magnified conditions close inshore between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail. Likewise east of Salcombe which we experienced last Saturday afternoon when a slight bouncy beat into a F5ish became a surprisingly boisterous bash round Prawle Point - not enough to be a problem but enough for my first timer crew’s eyes to widen a bit.I found the number of shouts around Salcombe yesterday a bit odd. My youngest son is sailing with friends down there so we've been watching the forecasts with interest; they were in Salcombe when that happened and my wife and I agreed that we would have been happy going out given the forecast, which was F7 SW IIRC with a bit of chop. Nothing too bad. I think there were were 3 or 4 RNLI interventions and we can't really work out why. Is there something about that bit of coast that means it's worse than it looks on paper, or are there lots of inexperienced skippers and crew sailing there? The Fastnet mob didn't seem to having major problems. Genuinely interested rather than criticising anything.
I found the number of shouts around Salcombe yesterday a bit odd. My youngest son is sailing with friends down there so we've been watching the forecasts with interest; they were in Salcombe when that happened and my wife and I agreed that we would have been happy going out given the forecast, which was F7 SW IIRC with a bit of chop. Nothing too bad. I think there were were 3 or 4 RNLI interventions and we can't really work out why. Is there something about that bit of coast that means it's worse than it looks on paper, or are there lots of inexperienced skippers and crew sailing there? The Fastnet mob didn't seem to having major problems. Genuinely interested rather than criticising anything.
Details and a video on Salcombe Rnli's Facebook page.
First they had the yacht on the rocks, previously discussed, followed by a yacht with a fouled prop, then later an ILB search for a PLB activation, and finally an unrelated EPIRB alert.
Nothing found on the two searches.
We’ve passed Bolt Head/Tail dozens of times and it’s almost always considerably rougher than the areas either side of it. We call it the Salcombe slop.One (at least) of my pilot books references often magnified conditions close inshore between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail. Likewise east of Salcombe which we experienced last Saturday afternoon when a slight bouncy beat into a F5ish became a surprisingly boisterous bash round Prawle Point - not enough to be a problem but enough for my first timer crew’s eyes to widen a bit.