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Hi Guys

heres a link that will give some of you an apreaciation of the problems that we can get as a result of tides and winds on the East Coast of the UK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SePqgXB ... re=related

ive sailed my mac in conditions close to the ones in the Video,i generally call them washing machine seas

Yikes - you would want Billy's 140 to get through that....

I have seen tidal waves that were less destructive than that tidal surge.



Jim

jim

did the view of outside the harbour not remind you of our entry at Wells

Don't remind me...I still don't eat fish n' chips...

Ah. Smoked Kippers in the morning for breakfast MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

J

Don't remind me...I still don't eat fish n' chips...

Sounds like the Fatcat omlette I returned to Morro Bay from S/V Third Day

Memories....

Kelly Hanson East wrote: Sounds like the Fatcat omlette I returned to Morro Bay from S/V Third Day

Memories....

Probably tasted like it and smelled like it as well.

Memories...

met data for that storm.....

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/p ... 00401.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/p ... 100401.gif

978 mm that is low..... with 1033 offshore..... lets see.....55 mm range... range....... 55/1000 mercury= .055x33 ft.water= foot and a half of storm pressure surge, 50 mph for 8 hours winds will push an extra foot and half........... so basicly an extra meter on top of
a spring tide of more than 6 meters. and storm waves of a few meters......


wow.......
remind me to carry extra chain when I anchor in scotland.............

WW

i have a 22lb delta anchor backed with 30ft or 3/8 chain and 150ft of rode.

Now you know why

a couple of hundred miles further up the coast is an Area called the Pentland Firth,the tide hits 9 knots there

British Cloumbia has some interesting tidal rapids you will notice it says sailboats should carefully time their passage on the first link http://www.bigpacific.com/whattodo/park ... chuck.html

The second link is to a utube video of a tug and barge, I am thinking he misjudged when slack tide was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEfUblSDzww
You need a really big big motor on the Macgregor to get out of this one!!!

Here's what happens when you don't plan your San Juan's cruise with the tide & current almanac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3sd0XRFBE

~Rich

jock,

my danforth is only 22, my bruce is 16...and I have the same 30 ft of chain........

But I do have 450 ft. of rode tied to that chain.... Hasnt pulled out yet

Hamin' X wrote:Here's what happens when you don't plan your San Juan's cruise with the tide & current almanac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3sd0XRFBE

~Rich

And none of those powerboats offered to throw the S/V a line to get him out of a possible capsizing situation I thought we had a better class of boaters here in the NW. I guess I'd better rethink that opinion. Rob

when you sail on the Uk.s east coast it pays to work the tides,ive had 9 knots SOG with the tide and the sails up.The versitility of the mac really comes into its own around here,i can get out of the river and over the bar at 80% of the tidal range,if i want to head south its best if i leave at HW-4 hours i can cover the first 12 miles out of the estuary then ride the tide for the next 6,if there is enough wind i can cover a lot of ground.If i go north then HW+1 is the optimum.