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Re: Was it really that bad?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:43 pm
by Booby Trapper
Nick.
I take it you didn't depart last week on your planned cruise?
Re: Was it really that bad?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:01 pm
by Nick
I take it you didn't depart last week on your planned cruise?
It seemed a bit pointless. Long wet bashes to windward in a F6 followed by gusty nights swinging at anchor as you try to get warm and dry is just so old hat.
Thinking of an Eberspacher . . . .
The rest of the season is likely to be day sails or two or three days snatched here and there. Have decided to embark on a systematic programme of island bagging.
Re: Was it really that bad?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:22 pm
by JackJ
Nick wrote: it's persisting down outside again here . . . hope the weather is better in Cowes.
Yesterday was great. Sunny and hot.
Today just warm and cloudy. A little windy too but dry.
Re: Was it really that bad?
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:19 am
by puddock
I just recieved an e-mail on the topic of weather. It seems the Aussies are having a slightly different problem to us.....
AT 120 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK THAT KOALAS
WERE ASKING PEOPLE FOR WATER.
IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
ONE WENT TO A HOUSE TO TRY TO HIDE FROM THE HEAT AND TO
GET A BIT OF SHADE AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
THE OWNER GAVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. IT'S REALLY CUTE.
Re: Was it really that bad?
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:31 am
by marisca
I caught the lovely Heather doing a bit to camera on the Beeb news yesterday claiming wettest and hottest, depending on where in the country you had been. Orkney looked good!
So I guess I have been lucky this year. My trawl of the interweb weather sites seems to be suggesting settled high pressure later this month so that'll probably mean gales and more rain.