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Boating chit chat thread.

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    #1772
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,040 ✭✭✭✭neris


    so much for yesterdays forecast on windguru of mid teens to 20, we spent half our race drifting and going backwards


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    #1773
    BowWow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭BowWow


    neris wrote: »
    so much for yesterdays forecast on windguru of mid teens to 20, we spent half our race drifting and going backwards

    +1


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    #1774
    Steve
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    Hope you all have extra fenders and warps out.

    This is real.

    Stay safe. :)


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    #1775
    Panjandrums
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭Panjandrums


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    #1776
    Steve
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    https://www.windguru.cz/4862

    https://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/Dublin/hour_by_hour.html


    YR is giving less than WG but still lots on the way.


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    #1777
    nokiatom
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭nokiatom


    Luckily they're not spring tides


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    #1778
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    nokiatom wrote: »
    Luckily they're not spring tides

    This.

    I'd say the southern and western seaboard communities are thanking their lucky stars.

    God help those left out at sea today, hope they all get through it ok.


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    #1779
    AndyBoBandy
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    God help those left out at sea today, hope they all get through it ok.

    Big time. I'm in NCD, and listening on 16 & 83, and hoping I hear nothing all day bar the NAV & Weather warnings.

    Also hoping there are no RNLI callouts anywhere today.


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    #1780
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Don't think I've ever seen so little activity off our coast :eek:


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    #1781
    HeidiHeidi
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    Don't think I've ever seen so little activity off our coast :eek:


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    #1782
    AndyBoBandy
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    a mayday call from Dundalk Bay!!

    (relayed by Carlingford CG)

    Hope all is resolved safely.

    edit: it's 2 kite surfers!! R116 & Clogher Head Life Boat en route


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    #1783
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    a mayday call from Dundalk Bay!!

    (relayed by Carlingford CG)

    Hope all is resolved safely.

    edit: it's 2 kite surfers!! R116 & Clogher Head Life Boat en route

    Oh FFS :mad::mad::mad:


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    #1784
    AndyBoBandy
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    They are both ashore and safe

    Unnecessary call out for the lifeboat and helicopter crew


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    #1785
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,040 ✭✭✭✭neris


    see on twitter Rosslare lifeboats out on a shout

    can see the sea breaking over the rocks on irelands eye on the HYC webcam


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    #1786
    AndyBoBandy
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    neris wrote: »
    see on twitter Rosslare lifeboats out on a shout

    can see the sea breaking over the rocks on irelands eye on the HYC webcam

    I can barely see Lambay Island due to the haze in Rush (I normally have an unobscured view of the island from my house.


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    #1787
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,040 ✭✭✭✭neris


    https://twitter.com/DublinBayBuoy/status/919873740497915905


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    #1788
    fishy_fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭fishy_fishy


    Went down to attend to the boat around 0850. Was 8-10 knots. Within 10 minutes it was up to 30ish with white horses inside Howth harbour. Came up very, very quickly.


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    #1789
    fergal.b
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    Gusts of up to 191kph recorded at Fastnet Lighthouse. :eek:





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    #1790
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    A shot on RTE news just there of a boat in Kinsale marina with the jib half unfurled :eek:

    That won't be pretty when the owner gets back to it.....


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    #1791
    AndyBoBandy
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    A shot on RTE news just there of a boat in Kinsale marina with the jib half unfurled :eek:

    That won't be pretty when the owner gets back to it.....

    That’s the Sail Ireland pontoon isn’t it? The charter crowd


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    #1792
    fergal.b
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    The waves are currently being tracked at between 42 and 45 feet off the South West coast of Ireland. That is as tall as three double decker buses stacked on top of each other... https://lovin.ie/news/there-are-currently-42-foot-waves-off-the-south-coast-of-ireland




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    #1793
    HeidiHeidi
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    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    That’s the Sail Ireland pontoon isn’t it? The charter crowd

    Not sure tbh, I don't know the marina very well. They were boats tied up stern to, didn't look very much like a charter fleet, but maybe they are?


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    #1794
    AndyBoBandy
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Not sure tbh, I don't know the marina very well. They were boats tied up stern to, didn't look very much like a charter fleet, but maybe they are?

    It’s the little pontoon beside the Trident Hotel,

    The boat with the unfurled jib certainly didn’t look charter. I know years ago it was the Sail ireland base.


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    #1795
    pedroeibar1
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    Wind direction is all over the place in Killiney Bay, veering and backing between east and south, mainly SSE. Was steady at 25 - 30 knots but frequent gusts of a lot more. The frequency and intensity of gusts is increasing. No rain yet but Bray Head comes and goes in the mist. Gulls are still airborne, playing in the updrafts.:eek:


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    #1796
    fishy_fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭fishy_fishy


    Apparently rescue underway. Yacht with 3 on board in difficulty 10 miles off coast.


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    #1797
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Has anyone got eyes on DL harbour?

    Wondering how our little boat is doing on it's mooring..... :eek:


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    #1798
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,845 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    fishy_fishy wrote: »
    Apparently rescue underway. Yacht with 3 on board in difficulty 10 miles off coast.

    Where is that?

    WTF would you be doing out on a yacht today??? :mad:


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    #1799
    AndyBoBandy
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Where is that?

    WTF would you be doing out on a yacht today??? :mad:

    Yacht is on tow heading for Rosslarw harbour


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    #1800
    fishy_fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭fishy_fishy


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Where is that?

    WTF would you be doing out on a yacht today??? :mad:

    Not sure, just caught it on the news.

    Maybe if you were on the way up from Bay of Biscay and just didn't get in on time? If it's someone who went out from Ireland they need to be charged with endangerment of some sort.


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    #1801
    Stheno
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    There are two yachts being rescued one in Galway and one in rosslare

    The coast guard guy on the emergency committee sounded really cheered off that people were out on the water


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