All battened down?
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Topic: All battened down?
Posted By: iGRF
Subject: All battened down?
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 3:37pm
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I don't think I've ever seen such a huge wind forcast for this time of day, we're posting 81 mph at 12 noon, coupled to a 6.8 mtr spring tide, I've even installed a tie down in the drive where the Contender is currently parked up.
Going down the lake later this avo to check the Solution and theBoat park at Hythe. Dogs off chains tomorrow boys, buckle up. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
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Posted By: eric_c
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 5:11pm
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There's a flood warning in place for the East Coast of Dorset. Didn't know we had one... Hamphire blown away perhaps? Seriously, this looks like widespread damage is on the cards. |
Posted By: Noah
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 5:29pm
Eunice will have to blow the roof off the  I don’t envy those in exposed places though.
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Posted By: Grumpycat
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 6:04pm
Just been down to our club to check our boats . All well tied down, put some extra ropes over our boats just to make sure . I did have a quick check round the rest of the boat park , every boat seems to be ok. But the bottom line is you never really know how well other people secure their boats . The only time I’ve ever had a boat damaged in a storm was when someone else’s boat was blown onto mine 
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 7:36pm
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Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 7:55pm
Did the wind blow the slit ring away iGRF ? ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 8:21pm
I have a back garden full of trees  most of them could reach the house and the neighbours  not worried at all. ------------- Robert |
Posted By: eric_c
Date Posted: 17 Feb 22 at 9:19pm
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Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 18 Feb 22 at 6:28am
Sailed ye great storm of 78 at the Weymouth speed trials in my proa - or more truthful spent at lot of time in the water as, the then very thin and pointy, windsurfers sped past inches from my head. One of the light days 
------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Jamie600
Date Posted: 19 Feb 22 at 8:31am
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All fine here apart from the roof being blown off a brick bus shelter 100 yards up the road.
My new (overengineered) fence survived ------------- RS600 1001 |
Posted By: The Q
Date Posted: 21 Feb 22 at 8:42am
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Luckily the wind direction for Dudley and Eunice was from the far end of our garden, 150 yards away, where a couple of trees are down.. The boat cover / boat was ok. though the boat rocked on it's trailer supports and the foam pads between them and hull fell out. The house lost a clay roof tile, which amazingly fell the 20ft without breaking. The sailing club has two web cams, unfortunately one is now staring at the ground, and that's the one I need to see my motor boat, so I'll drop in on the way home from work.. Before you lot think I'm rich, the motor boat is old and tired and cost less than many on here have paid for their sailing dinghies.. The Strongest winds I've experienced was 126 mph... In the Outer Hebridies, my boat of the time was on it's trailer behind the barrack block , it proceeded across the car park on it's own between two parked cars with out hitting either of them stopping at the bottom end when it reached the curb.. How did I know it's route... Tyre tracks.. The brakes were on and you could follow the black tyre marks across the car park. There wasn't a lot left of the cover though.. ------------- Still sailing in circles |
Posted By: Grumpycat
Date Posted: 21 Feb 22 at 11:33am
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Well so all the boats at my club have survived the wind so far and we managed to get a race completed yesterday morning . ( Not that I sailed lol . Spent the morning taking pics for the club fb page and drinking coffee and then possibly a glass of wine or two ).
How is everyone coping with the storms at their clubs ? ------------- |
Posted By: The Q
Date Posted: 21 Feb 22 at 2:16pm
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I know from reports elsewhere my winter sailing Club did race yesterday, they were having 3 days of sail training Wed/ Thur /Fri (half term) how much of that they got done I don't know. Me? I was in the workshop making a new trailer light board.. ------------- Still sailing in circles |
Posted By: Grumpycat
Date Posted: 21 Feb 22 at 3:25pm
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Re lighting boards, I just keep buying new ones so my brother in law can keep borrowing them and keep dragging them down the road . Lol ------------- |
Posted By: The Q
Date Posted: 22 Feb 22 at 7:58am
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My ancient old light board was 40 years old ish, it too has some damage because it escaped it's moving moorings and also it doesn't meet current specs for a trailer this wide. So it was about time for a new one. I decided on LED as the Landrover has had it's indicators and side lights converted to LED, so the flasher unit is for LED's. By Shopping around I found I could get all the bits vastly cheaper than a commercial light board and since electronics is my field, I have all the tools to do the job.. Had a wander around the SC last night all the boats there seem to have survived OK, most were sheltered by buildings from the wind from the west. Round the broads though several boats have sunk mostly motorboats. One of the club webcams is focused on the deck and it's bracket is gone.. That camera was in full force of the storms, plus it's plastic bracket was getting sunlight degradation being on the sunny side of the building. ------------- Still sailing in circles |
Posted By: Grumpycat
Date Posted: 22 Feb 22 at 1:40pm
I have to say I was watching some webcam footage from Oulton Broad on the Saturday and I’ve never seen proper waves on the broad before . It was good watching no4 buoy break free and end up at the commodore pub  ------------- |
Posted By: Sheetpuller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 22 at 8:49pm
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I drove over to the SC (Shoreham) a couple of times in the last couple of days just to check both my boats are OK. I guessed they would be but there's always that little niggling doubt, isn't there? Both were snug as a bug in a rug and so was everything else so far as I could see. But I have vivid memories of doing the same at Datchet many years ago during a particularly vicious storm; as I walked up the windy path that leads to the top of the reservoir, someone's Dart 18 became airborne from further up and passed over my head with only a metre or so of excess altitude.... it landed right down at the bottom of the slope, and not in a good way. Lesson learned; when high wind is expected, take the tramp off... ------------- I'm not arguing. I'm explaining why I'm right. Merlin Rocket 3545 - 'Smooth Operator' Sprint 15 1342 - 'Still Crazy' |