Woolverstone this morning...
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FullCircle
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Dig some more up and add to the Calendar potentials....
Lodesman77
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56 knots at Pin Mill according to my instruments...
FullCircle
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Throw that picture in the calendar 2014 thread?
pks1702
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That's some picture.
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Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Lodesman77
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Quality perhaps not the best as it was taken on a phone, but anyone welcome to use that picture as they see fit - calendar thread would be nice.
Picture was taken from the North side of the channel, approximately opposite Foxes Bottom, and facing East. The boat on the left broke it's mooring shortly after and headed off down river...
Leighb
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Also at Woolverstone, some damage in RHYC car park. 2 Ajaxes were hit by falling trees. One may be not too bad, the other has the mast trashed and damage to the cockpit coaming, fortunately both hulls look OK.
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Champagne Murphy
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Sniper
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Trust you to be on board Fred!
iainbluk
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My boat is on the extreme right in the distance. No damage fortunately apart from slight fretting of the genoa cover..but seeing this pic makes me shudder slightly.
Hadenough
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Did you actually get out there!! Or is the pic from one of these remote gizmos?
Lodesman77
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Yes - that's how I saw my trusty ST50 register 56 knots! It may well have been higher when the side decks went under, or when the dinghy (rigid) was airborne on the end of it's rope, but I didn't get a picture at that stage...
I would add that I went out the night before, when it was a little less windy...
Hadenough
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Well done! We are opposite, by Butt. Happily holed up in a marina for the winter during the storm although we were on board on Monday morning and had a hammering. I've had some hairy times on the mooring in the past but have never seen the river like that!
Lodesman77
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Me neither...
My friend sent me this picture later:-
My friend sent me this picture later:-
Leighb
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We walked around the Clamp House woods today, quite a lot of trees down and branches broken off. On the way back we noticed a yacht moored on the north side of the channel whose genoa had been torn and the upper part unrolled. Too far off to see a name as I had no bins with me.
If you are moored in this area you might want to check up?
If you are moored in this area you might want to check up?
Charlotte Anne
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Leigh,
The owner is aware - Kings were kind enough to try to sort it out but it sounds such a mess now that it will be removed when they drop the mast.
The owner is aware - Kings were kind enough to try to sort it out but it sounds such a mess now that it will be removed when they drop the mast.
Leighb
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Thanks,
I didn't realise whose yacht it was, just hoped that someone on the forum would know. Gus is a good chap, I am not sure if it was even one of his moorings?
I didn't realise whose yacht it was, just hoped that someone on the forum would know. Gus is a good chap, I am not sure if it was even one of his moorings?
Lodesman77
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It's a private mooring, the boat is Roustabout and it was known about on the day. The top of the Genoa was shredded pretty quickly...
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Leighb
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That seems to confirm that leaving a furling genoa up, however well stowed, when that sort of wind strength is forecast is risking damage.
