Sods Law
Sitting in my office today, melting due to a duff aircon system, I had some consolation in the fact that; as I had to collect our car from its service close to home, I would be back early enough to get out on the water.
It had been a glorious day so far, and weather reports proposed a continuation of light winds (10knots or so) and a little cloud...
I made it, and we slipped lines and headed out. As we left the marina we noticed a bunch of murk over the New Forest, but we convinced ourselves that it was passing to the north and carried on regardless... Oh! What fools...
No sooner had we set the sails in a good 15knots of wind (funny... sure it was less than that earlier...?), The Mate said, "is that a bit of a squall coming?"
"Looks like it" says I.
The fastest reef in history was set and no sooner had the winch handle been removed, that Neraida tore off, with most of her leeward deck underwater, at "break-chandlery" speed towards Calshot, in 35knots of fierce warm wind, rapidly accompanied by lead like pellets of H2O.
As the marine dust cleared, glances were exchanged and a "see what happens when this has blown through" plan was formulated.
It didn't get much better, although the wind speed peaked at the 25ish mark so Neraida was quite happy with her one reef.
We went home after 2 knockdowns and a spinnakerless broach... ho hum.
Better day tomorrow hopefully!
It had been a glorious day so far, and weather reports proposed a continuation of light winds (10knots or so) and a little cloud...
I made it, and we slipped lines and headed out. As we left the marina we noticed a bunch of murk over the New Forest, but we convinced ourselves that it was passing to the north and carried on regardless... Oh! What fools...
No sooner had we set the sails in a good 15knots of wind (funny... sure it was less than that earlier...?), The Mate said, "is that a bit of a squall coming?"
"Looks like it" says I.
The fastest reef in history was set and no sooner had the winch handle been removed, that Neraida tore off, with most of her leeward deck underwater, at "break-chandlery" speed towards Calshot, in 35knots of fierce warm wind, rapidly accompanied by lead like pellets of H2O.
As the marine dust cleared, glances were exchanged and a "see what happens when this has blown through" plan was formulated.
It didn't get much better, although the wind speed peaked at the 25ish mark so Neraida was quite happy with her one reef.
We went home after 2 knockdowns and a spinnakerless broach... ho hum.
Better day tomorrow hopefully!
posted by Neraida at 3:39 PM
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