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Post by MartyB on Oct 29, 2013 5:02:36 GMT
For those in the southern UK, did you survive the BIG winds I keep hearing about on the news tonight for me monday evening. I heard it hit you monday evening, or late sunday night to monday am for me on the left coast of N America.
Marty
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Post by MalcolmP on Oct 29, 2013 7:04:38 GMT
I'm still here  but my Mum who is further East lost a fence and some ridge tiles. I think the boat is OK but not been down yet. There was quite a lot of damage etc and some lost of life, mainly trees and a guy who was swept off a pier. It was really well forecast so well done met office. I see the mini transat fleet may be delayed for several days before a postponed start Malcolm |
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Post by MartyB on Oct 29, 2013 13:25:33 GMT
Haven't the mini's been delayed for almost a week now? I've read about that in another forum.
The storm did at least look well forecast unlike say the fastnet and some other storms of the past. I figured there would be a few that were hit etc. We had the remnents of a typhoon come thru here a month ago. Wish it would have been a week later......but that is another story. But winds only hit in the 40's where I am. I recall a few in the 50's north of me, and on the actual ocean coast.
Marty
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Post by tedp on Oct 29, 2013 15:29:11 GMT
After it hit England, it moved on to hit the Dutch coast on Monday morning. It wasn't as bad as in England but still it peaked at 60 knots, with 85 knot gusts. Over here there were two deaths and several wounded. Around $100m damage so far. I saw it coming and on Sunday afternoon I went out to check the boat which is due to be hauled out on the 5th. My berth is near the harbour entrance facing SW, though covered by the shore about a mile away. My home sailing area is a shallow freshwater inland sea about 30 x 30nm in size. When I went there it was blowing a merry 35-45 knots and the boat was a bit restless with 1ft waves coming into the harbour. Now the jetty is due for replacement, and I'm moored on its lee side, to heavy cleats on a rail. As I shared one of them with the neighbouring boat, they were both pulling on it and gradually working it loose. So I put out some long lines across the jetty and moored the neighbour's boat to a cleat behind mine which was still good. I pulled a line around the mainsail hood and tightened the lines of the foresail cover to prevent any wind damage. On Monday afternoon when the worst was over I phoned the marina. They'd had several boats in trouble, having been moored on light lines or with genoas tearing loose when the cover was worried off by the wind. My boat and the neighbour's were OK, but the funniest thing they said was that at the height of the gale the water level in the harbour had lowered by some 3ft due to the wind blowing offshore. Glad the harbour is deep enough...  |
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Post by Zanshin on Oct 30, 2013 7:46:30 GMT
I was in Hamburg at a boat show and the winds there were incredible. Peak measured was something like 185Km/H. I was lucky to fly in before the weather hit, but the whole town was a mess with many subway lines closed due to downed trees and flooding and the entire downtown in gridlock on Monday. People at the boat show were talking about damage to their marinas and that many boats were affected.
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Post by MartyB on Oct 31, 2013 13:52:20 GMT
I was wondering if some folks had gotten hit harder than local news reports. I did see a headline that London? was supposed to be hit during the evening rush hour. Hopefully the overall damage was on the lower side of things. I believe storms like this with equal winds to actual hurricanes cause less damage to a degree. Not to say that damage does not occur.
Marty
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