Blown over
It was windy here last Thursday, so I took a trip over to check on the boat. Ty Dewi had been sat happily in the water all through it. The marina staff said that they had had 100 mph gusts but our boat sat there hardly moving whilst all the others bobbed like corks. Surprisingly little damage to anything, except poor SailAway, a 43 foot boat up in a cradle for the winter. She had been lifted up on the cradle, which had twisted badly and punched a hole through her hull. Luckiy she came down on the grass, not the concrete, and didn't roll down the bank in front of her. She also only grazed the little boat next door, but there's still going to be plenty of repair work for someone.
Back on Ty Dewi, you wouldn't have known anything had happened - not even a trace of chafe on her lines. Rather reassuring, really.
posted by Nick Ward at
11:05 pm
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We were going to ask if you guys and the boat was OK. We saw on the BBC website how bad the storm was in the UK.
Glad to hear all is welll. Love Mig xx
Yep, we're fine. Funnily enough, I went to Aberdeen for that day. I left the house at 5am, before the wind had got up, boarded the plane, fairly smooth flight, not very windy in Aberdeen.
Lots of flight cancellations from other airpots, but EasyJet seem to fly in anything and Luton wasn't delayed, so with a 180mph tailwind I got home just 10 minutes later than usual after the wind had died down.
As I drove back to Cambridge the radio was full of stories about chaos on road, rail and air travel, yet I had travelled nearly 1000 miles. Bizare really.
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