Walton Pier Weather Station

[alec]

Nice real time weather station on Walton Pier up and running.

Click on 'live weather'

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


If you click thumbnails, you can see the new bit added to the pier for the lifeboat.

 

[sailorman]

thnx

 

[spottydog]

The lifeboat callout log on the left of the page makes sobering reading /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[ex-Gladys]

Certainly does... Almost all are yachts...

 

[asj1]

A very good site. I couldn't stop my self spending 20 minutes reading the callout log. Lessons learned;
1) avoid the shallow bits
2) make sure engine works
3) dont show SWMBO this site

Regards

 

[jezjez]

it's amazing how many people go aground on the sands and have engine failure. No other call outs to yachts, were there?

 

[FullCircle]

If I called out thet lifeboat every time I had engine (not to mention electric) failure and went aground, I would be one of their top customers.
Although they did come out to me on the Gunfleet one time when they thought I was in distress, but I had gone aground deliberately and was sunbathing reading a book on the foredeck when they turned up out of nowhere.

Bless them all, they are a comforting thought in times of (dis)stress.

 

[Athene V30]

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I would be one of their top customers.

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Do they give out reward points like Tesco's? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[FullCircle]

Nectar points? No Sir, heres a Fuktup card!!!

 

[rays]

Anyone noticed that the temperature on the weather station isn't working? It has shown 13c for the last two days. No way! It's bloody freezing out there!
CD

 

[Leighb]

Perhaps the temp sensor is indoors?

 

[ianfr]

The wind looks suspiciously steady as well!

 

[nortonmotors]

Thanks for the link. As a one-time Levington mooring-holder and now at the shallow end of Maldon, I've sailed past Walton too many times to remember and always welcome sight of the pier-end and the AWLB there.
As another says, reading the 'Callout' logs makes very sobering reading.

 

[Leighb]

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Anyone noticed that the temperature on the weather station isn't working? It has shown 13c for the last two days. No way! It's bloody freezing out there!
CD

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Those who have looked at this regularly will have seen that they put a disclaimer on saying that the temp sensor was faulty.

It has obviously been fixed and now show outside temp and windchill readings