Nasty night in the marina

[Silkie]

Video courtesy of Merry Monster's 'phone.

[chakalo]

Good grief!! Next time I hear someone down here moan about a bit light spray blown over the breakwater, I shall tell them to watch that..

[Olivepage]

That does look a bit nasty, wonder what marina it is - just for future reference you understand

Apparently there was 50+ knots blowing through our place today, but thats a well sheltered dock. I'm just hoping things calm down a bit soon, slap some antifowl on and maybe do a bit of sailing.

[little boy blue]

fender watch required, altho` looks like he is on the right side of the pontoon.

[cpedw]

Chatting with the new Oz staff in the Frog last weekend, she described the fun they have had recently watching the gait adopted by people trying to walk along the pontoons.

Derek

[sahona]

My radar reflector and its special expensive stainless 'watercatch position' mounting bracket have been taken by the wind fairies. That's the problem with high windage stuff bolted "permanently" to the top of the mast. Next one will be on a string...

[Rowana]

It was a wee bit breezy in Peterhead yesterday as well. At least it's a bit sheltered with the wind from the west.

Anything that the wind got a hold of would have been in Norway PDQ

[Arghiro]

That clockwork motor on your camera sounds a bit dodgy

I thought you were sailing at first, then saw you were safely tied up with a wee cat's cradle of strings. Good job it was a sheltered spot really.

I knew there was a good reason why I prefer moorings! Far less stuff to bash against all the time.

[Silkie]

Odd that insurance companies seems to prefer marinas to moorings. I've so far spent three seasons on moorings and two in a marina. I've twice sustained damage while tied up and both times it's been fairleads ripped out while plunging up and down alongside a pontoon.

[ljs]

...fairleads ripped out while plunging up and down alongside a pontoon.

Was that the time you fe.....
No we won't mention that again

[Silkie]

Very droll.

Sadly I don't seem to have anything embarrassing, humiliating or just downright nasty I can dredge up about you... Do you fancy a wee sail on Silkie this year?

[ljs]

Oops not meant to be nasty - just a wee joke!
If time allows wd be honoured ...

[DaveS]

Would I be right in thinking that that's Dunstaffnage?

[Magna Carter]

My radar reflector and its special expensive stainless 'watercatch position' mounting bracket have been taken by the wind fairies. That's the problem with high windage stuff bolted "permanently" to the top of the mast. Next one will be on a string...

A good few years ago, I saw a boat in Plymouth that done just this.... the bracket broke... the radar reflector then thrashed itself against the mast and fittings until the string finally gave way.... bust all his mast head gear, and marked the mast really badly.... personally, i'd rather it flew away.....

[jim.r]

Would I be right in thinking that that's Dunstaffnage?

I suspect most of the motion is coming from the hand holding the camera, Silkie's DT's after a night in the Frog is an of talked about local phenomena. Indeed it frequently registers on the seismograph in Edinburgh, when this first started happening regular tsunamai warning were issued for the west coast, however now its just dismissed by the British Earthquake Society with "Och, that'll be Silkie shaking out after a nicht in the Frog again."