iainbluk
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Bet you wished you were somewhere else when that occured!
Woolverstone this morning...
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Lodesman77
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It was definitely more than I was expecting, but no - I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else...
iainbluk
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I definitely wouldnt have wanted to be on the boat for very long in those conditions but was pleased to see Zulu had come through the storm without damage.
Anyone know if there is a way of putting a webcam on the boat with gsm access so you could check it out from home? Even better a steerable webcam so you can have a 360 degree view of the boat and all the bits likely to fall off?
Anyone know if there is a way of putting a webcam on the boat with gsm access so you could check it out from home? Even better a steerable webcam so you can have a 360 degree view of the boat and all the bits likely to fall off?
Lodesman77
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Easiest and cheapest is to get a mobile phone that supports video calling and set it to auto-answer. Then you can make a video call to it and it will answer and show whatever you left it pointing at. Not a controllable thing but useful enough to let you see what's going on.
benw
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Just got back from a week on board. Luckily got Orcana into RHYC ahead of Monday. We were on board over the weekend and into Monday morning with max gust 57kn on our wind instruments - have 54kn on a bit of video footage which I will post on our blog.
Given we were sheltered from most of the gusts we felt ok up until about 8.00am when it ripped through more from the West. Thankfully our new fenders did their job - the ones we inherited would have been useless with the boat heeling 30-40 degrees in the biggest gusts.
Given we were sheltered from most of the gusts we felt ok up until about 8.00am when it ripped through more from the West. Thankfully our new fenders did their job - the ones we inherited would have been useless with the boat heeling 30-40 degrees in the biggest gusts.
Lodesman77
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30-40 degrees in a marina? That I would find very scary...
benw
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I have added the link here to a video one of my crew took as Jude hit. I have another one which shows the windspeed but vimeo cant handle the size so trying another option.
http://vimeo.com/78380411
Now added clips from the video which show the 54kn, cant seem to find a clip with 57kn - I know we saw it but probably calling for the brown trousers distracted the video taking!
We came out yesterday and great work from Gus and the team and Harry King Pin Mill - all went very smoothly. A 2m draft yacht being walked up the hard in the cradle at Pin Mill looked great. Safely cradled in the yard now.
http://vimeo.com/78380411
Now added clips from the video which show the 54kn, cant seem to find a clip with 57kn - I know we saw it but probably calling for the brown trousers distracted the video taking!
We came out yesterday and great work from Gus and the team and Harry King Pin Mill - all went very smoothly. A 2m draft yacht being walked up the hard in the cradle at Pin Mill looked great. Safely cradled in the yard now.
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DoubleEnder
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I have one of Gus's moorings near the Butt buoy, but the boat is actually ashore in Kent. It's interesting to see the pictures, and I'm curious about the wind direction and the sea state. I think it's that see sawing up and down that does damage and causes boats to break mooring strops. Was the wind NW? If so I gues there was enough of a fetch at Pin Mill to make it bouncy? And dangerous
benw
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There was a definite wind shift to the West and almost but not quite immediately down river. The fetch that gathered over the relatively short distance and time was amazing. All morning the gusts had been coming over the RHYC marina athwart ships but the serious gusts came down more from the bridge. We are on a mooring opposite the Butt By and felt relieved we were tucked inside under the lee offered at the club.
During a 40 min period we heard trees cracking like gunfire , sadly as has already been posted several Ajax's were hit by falling trees.
The abiding memory I will have is the hiss in the rigging, it was so very different to the whistle you get up to and around 40 knots. Above 40 to approaching 60 knots the wind sound is very different indeed and not something I would like to experience at sea. We reached our comfort zone at 57knots above that we really would be left to the mercy of the weather.
During a 40 min period we heard trees cracking like gunfire , sadly as has already been posted several Ajax's were hit by falling trees.
The abiding memory I will have is the hiss in the rigging, it was so very different to the whistle you get up to and around 40 knots. Above 40 to approaching 60 knots the wind sound is very different indeed and not something I would like to experience at sea. We reached our comfort zone at 57knots above that we really would be left to the mercy of the weather.
iainbluk
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The more I hear about the storm, the more surprised I am that there wasn't more damage. The windage on my genoa cover must have had the whole boat shaking. Well its off now, in one piece thankfully. I don't normaly shift the boat to the marina till later in the year but if this weather continues I shall have to rethink.
sailorman
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The damaged sail is on a Co33
Lodesman77
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Wind direction was approx SW veering to W - see picture in post 15
Sea state - see picture in post 3
I believe the rope strop on the boat behind me was actually chafed through by the bob stay, I certainly saw it being held underneath it as the boat was pitching.
I would note that each time the speed went up, it was marked by a distinct veer; being on a swinging mooring it was mostly nose into the wind and no problem but twice it was put on it's side by gusts arriving from further on the beam.
