Wallet today

[Athene V30]

Right decision not to sail to Shotley yesterday and back to Brightlingsea today. Currently SW 26 to 35kts and wind over too!

http://www.waltonfrintonlifeboat.co.uk/live_weather/live_weather.html

Looks like next chance I have to get to boat is in August now

I hate summer.

 

[GrumpyOldGit]

Very wise Peter, saw you making preparations last week during the forty minute break in the weather !
Any consolation we are now not going to the RIR because of this poxy weather + we broke our crew racing last saturday. Now £80 entry fee adrift and boat provisioned for four people with no prospect of using....
I too hate summer !

 

[MoodySabre]

We came back down the Wallet on Thursday before it went SW and windy.

Sailing in Scotland next week

 

[Cantata]

Well, I should be heading NW along the Wallet late Monday morning, so I hope I can return maybe a week later...

 

[MoodySabre]

NW It gets a bit bumpy down Clacton High Street

 

[Cantata]

NW It gets a bit bumpy down Clacton High Street

Ooops so it does! I have a fixation on the wind being NW tomorrow enabling a nice sail NE along the Wallet...
I must pay more attention to the compass...thank you.

 

[sailorman]

We came back down the Wallet on Thursday before it went SW and windy.

Sailing in Scotland next week

we have just victualled at morrisons in gosport ready for contentin sailing tomorrow

 

[Marmalade]

I was supposed to go to St Kats today...

Figured yesterday that the wallet might be unfriendly...

:-(

 

[Habebty]

Had a quick blast down and back up the Wallet on Saturday, was a bit bumpy

Spent Friday night on a mooring at Levington, and slept through the 42 kt gusts at midnight (according to POF wind gauge site)

Never noticed the tide quite so low there, one boat on mooring outside Levington entrance was leaning as it sat on the mud, and my rudder was stuck in despite the sounder showing 1.2m beneath the keel. Must be quite a slope there under the moorings, that and the strong cross-river wind.

 

[davidfox]

Had a quick blast down and back up the Wallet on Saturday, was a bit bumpy

Spent Friday night on a mooring at Levington, and slept through the 42 kt gusts at midnight (according to POF wind gauge site)

Never noticed the tide quite so low there, one boat on mooring outside Levington entrance was leaning as it sat on the mud, and my rudder was stuck in despite the sounder showing 1.2m beneath the keel. Must be quite a slope there under the moorings, that and the strong cross-river wind.

I too had a good blast out towards the naze, in about 26knts true then one of my guests turned green, her indoors lost winch handle over the side in a tack and in the headless chicken moment that followed ripped the foot of my ancient genoa

 

[XTE]

I came up black deep the week before last from Ramsgate to Titchmarsh into a 22 kt easterly. Wont do that again! Those sand banks sure do make for a bumpy ride, especially with wind over tide.

 

[Vamoose]

Dont know what the problem is . It was lovely yesterday and better today !

 

[XTE]

Hmm, I am sure that it was, and better today too. Wind light and not blowing from the east though, was it?

 

[Tomahawk]

What a wonderful site..

I would never have found this weather station .. It is so useful

 

[XTE]

I used to use it a lot until I purchased an iPad. Without flash player, iPads and iPhones can't view the live data! Crazy argument between apple and adobe.

 

[baggypipes]

sailing?

We came back down the Wallet on Thursday before it went SW and windy.

Sailing in Scotland next week

You hope to be sailing in Scotland next week! Depends on where, at the mo we in Tobermory not a lot of constant wind but Heaps a plenty of the wet stuff & mist cant see too far. Oh howe we sometimes miss the Essex coast happy & safe sailing to you all.
Ex Brightlingsea & Tollesbury resident, PM's welcome