What a cracking forecast!

[KristiferColumbus]

Got to be the best this summer.
Several days of East/North Easterly winds 10/15 kilometers per hour whatever that is in old money.(probably blow a hooley if past recent forecasts are anything to go by) but I don't care at all,should be perfect for escape to........
(fill in the destination of your dreams & rejoice in the fact that you don't have to go to work for now)

 

[Rowana]

Just come up here -

Quote from todays inshore forecast -

Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides
24 hour forecast: 1300 Tue 08 Sep 1300 Wed 09 Sep
Wind Southwesterly severe gale 9 to violent storm 11, decreasing 5 or 6.
Sea state Very rough or high.
Weather Rain then showers.
Visibility Moderate or poor.


I think I'll stay at home until it gets a wee bit better

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Quote from todays inshore forecast -

Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides
24 hour forecast: 1300 Tue 08 Sep 1300 Wed 09 Sep
Wind Southwesterly severe gale 9 to violent storm 11, decreasing 5 or 6.
Sea state Very rough or high.
Weather Rain then showers.
Visibility Moderate or poor.


I think I'll stay at home until it gets a wee bit better

Yeah does sound a bit rough & I always note that on the 'up North' weather forecasts the temperature is nearly always several degrees lower.
I guess that is the price that you have to pay for such spectacular scenery & a deserted landscape.
Hopefully the temperature around here will rise above 25 degrees when something magical seems to happen.Sorry to rub it in.

 

[MM5AHO]

Is it suggested I take in a reef then?

 

[Cornishman]

Got to be the best this summer.
Several days of East/North Easterly winds 10/15 kilometers per hour whatever that is in old money.(probably blow a hooley if past recent forecasts are anything to go by) but I don't care at all,should be perfect for escape to........
(fill in the destination of your dreams & rejoice in the fact that you don't have to go to work for now)

I tend to agree that tomorrow's forecast is one of the best we have seen for ages in the South West. While my daughter complains that they've had so little rain in Norfolk that the grass on the farm is drying up we in the South West have had enough to refloat the Titanic, but tomorrow -
TOMORROW
It will be a largely dry day with scattered cloud and prolonged sunny spells. Feeling pleasant. Winds will be light northerly. Maximum temperature 21 °C

Glad the kids are back at school so that we oldies can enjoy it quietly

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Is it suggested I take in a reef then?

Sounds to me like if you are in Scotland you need to take in your whole mast

 

[KristiferColumbus]

I tend to agree that tomorrow's forecast is one of the best we have seen for ages in the South West. While my daughter complains that they've had so little rain in Norfolk that the grass on the farm is drying up we in the South West have had enough to refloat the Titanic, but tomorrow -
TOMORROW
It will be a largely dry day with scattered cloud and prolonged sunny spells. Feeling pleasant. Winds will be light northerly. Maximum temperature 21 °C

Glad the kids are back at school so that we oldies can enjoy it quietly

They have been saying on the local News here that the wind is from the North but the local coastal forecast is for East/North Easterly & it don't get much better than that.If only I had a lovely bird to go with me

 

[LadyInBed]

I think I'll stay at home until it gets a wee bit better

Looks like it will be a good crossing for the Cherbourg bash this w/e

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Looks like it will be a good crossing for the Cherbourg bash this w/e

What, in that old Colvic?...... Hope your engines in good fettle

 

[LadyInBed]

What, in that old Colvic?...... Hope your engines in good fettle

Hopefully wont need it

 

[Boreades]

Arrrrgggghhhh!!! Where is the N/E wind when you need it?

It used to be, you could depend on 1 or 2 days a week of easterly winds to chuck in the guestimate passage-planning for trips along the south coast. The last two years have seemed like non-stop SW winds. This year the crew mutinied and wouldn't let me put the wind on the nose for trips west of Plymouth to Fowey, Falmouth, Helford etc. So we chickened out and ran downwind to Dartmouth hoping it would turn east at some point for an easy sail back. Oh no it didn't!!!

 

[Scillypete]

Got to be the best this summer.
Several days of East/North Easterly winds 10/15 kilometers per hour whatever that is in old money.(probably blow a hooley if past recent forecasts are anything to go by) but I don't care at all,should be perfect for escape to........
(fill in the destination of your dreams & rejoice in the fact that you don't have to go to work for now)

Absolutely typical! ! ! just because I want to get to Mevagissey this weekend the timing could not be worse Looks like it will be a very long beat, the only plus being that the sun will shine for a change.

 

[meandraft]

No good for getting out of the Crouch. Was planning a trip to Ramsgate.