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Feb 2, 2022 8:50:04 GMT 12
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Post by Fogg on Feb 2, 2022 8:50:04 GMT 12
All my launch owning friends (well, both of them) are seriously fed up with hiding from E winds & swells to the extent they are selling their boats. For real!
Meanwhile, SV Fogg had a great last few days although true I was running with the wind all the time. With the sun out 😊
This long weekend isn’t looking great is it - at least 10kts more wind than necessary and rain / showers. But…based on other recent doom & gloom forecasts that turned out far too pessimistic we’re going to give it a try anyway.
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Feb 2, 2022 10:36:00 GMT 12
Post by dutyfree on Feb 2, 2022 10:36:00 GMT 12
We are sitting on the boat in the marina (house getting sprayed), dog is coming back from kennel. We will wait and see now, forecast is just shit until at least Tuesday. We dont mind just sitting in a bay, reading and going for walks. But E/NE is absolutely shit for our berth, up to 20 knots is okay, but after that I feel like I need to hire a tug Helped three around us come in on Monday, we got in a little earlier.
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Feb 2, 2022 12:35:37 GMT 12
Post by armchairadmiral on Feb 2, 2022 12:35:37 GMT 12
Be patient . Wait for the forecast that suits. It'll come. Storm forecast for next Monday just disappeared. Like Cody,but it cleaned out Barrier. We counted 40 boats in Fitzroy, Thanks forecasters. We had a great time !
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Feb 4, 2022 12:53:03 GMT 12
Post by dutyfree on Feb 4, 2022 12:53:03 GMT 12
still bloody windy.
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Feb 4, 2022 13:30:32 GMT 12
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Post by Fogg on Feb 4, 2022 13:30:32 GMT 12
It’s blowing 20-25 up here near GH but it’s been mostly sunny all day no sign (so far) of the rain forecast.
For various reasons we’ve not headed off very far but instead anchored just outside GH marina for a few hours - it’s sheltered from NE winds and we can still swim and relax the same as an anchorage anywhere else - without the heavy weather sail.
One of the benefits of GH…
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Feb 4, 2022 16:47:06 GMT 12
Post by dutyfree on Feb 4, 2022 16:47:06 GMT 12
Yes. might need to move
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Feb 4, 2022 17:20:16 GMT 12
Post by GO30 on Feb 4, 2022 17:20:16 GMT 12
Windy up north, just as windy back down here in the shitty, an exciting moment or 2 in-between.
Not looking good for a Riverhead run on Monday.
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 6, 2022 8:16:29 GMT 12
next weekend not looking any better
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Feb 6, 2022 8:53:10 GMT 12
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Post by Fogg on Feb 6, 2022 8:53:10 GMT 12
Opinion on this summer seems divided in 2 ways:
1. Sailors vs motors with the latter complaining about big E (wind & swell)
2. Early vs late starters: last few years there’s been a trend for Xmas & NY and even first part of Jan to be awful and for summer cruising weather to finally start late Jan / early Feb (as schools go back). Which I think caused many people (including us) to delay our summer cruise until Feb and to work through Jan.
This year it’s flipped and the early summer seems to have been great on the water and the really unsettled stuff has kicked in last 10 days or so (since Cody it has never really settled again long-term).
The other surprise for me has been the lack of TCs given the ridiculously warm water - it’s routinely been 22-23C everywhere Fogg has been last few weeks. And even hotter in some backwaters eg Whitianga Hbr was 25C.
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Feb 6, 2022 10:44:17 GMT 12
Post by fish on Feb 6, 2022 10:44:17 GMT 12
Having installed 3 new water tanks last year, we are now down to our last tank and keeping a close eye on things. Desperate for some actual rain, not this soggy humid shit. We got a really good 7 days on the boat first week of Jan. Got the kids into snorkelling and fishing. Have been hanging out for another opportunity for a cruise to keep the kids momentum on these new things. Thought I could take them snorkelling at our local beaches, but this ongoing NE'er has stuffed that. Fishing is out. Diving is out. Surfing is out (I get my arse handed to me on the west coast, so stay east, and it is just shit).
Windsurfing has been solid, but this week it looks to be going full easterly, meaning the usual good spots are shit.
Probably the best call I made was installing air con throughout the house last year. With all this humidity it has been a life saver. Especially since we are on a hill with views, if we open a door or window the house blows inside out. If we close the windows its like a sweat box, accept for the aircon.
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Feb 6, 2022 11:16:18 GMT 12
Post by dutyfree on Feb 6, 2022 11:16:18 GMT 12
We had a great run pre-christmas. Water was warm out most weekends. Christmas/NY we had 11 days away. Still a great time, but the water was a little cooler. Had definitely warmed up last weekend. Even though we are launch owners these days, we dont mind wind, or waves. The launch can smash through some pretty big stuff and does not take long to get places. But this last week was just relentless so I went back to work. Will use my days later We have aircon through most of the house. Bedroom only gets used for cooling in summer, the rest of the house gets used for both cooling and heating.
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Feb 6, 2022 12:09:05 GMT 12
Post by ComfortZone on Feb 6, 2022 12:09:05 GMT 12
Having installed 3 new water tanks last year, we are now down to our last tank and keeping a close eye on things. Desperate for some actual rain, not this soggy humid shit. I thought you were looking at getting a "trickle connection" from Water-doesn't-Care to keep the tanks full? Went and checked the vege garden just now, the top 1' or so is moist, but dry below. Might see some real rain tonite. Not going to help our motorway building effort... For one reason and another I have not been out since our encounter at Bostaquet Bay. Seeing as next weekend is not looking flash going to attend to a mechanical fix on CZ that has been on the list
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Feb 7, 2022 11:50:33 GMT 12
Post by ComfortZone on Feb 7, 2022 11:50:33 GMT 12
Having installed 3 new water tanks last year, we are now down to our last tank and keeping a close eye on things. Desperate for some actual rain, not this soggy humid shit. All my water tanks filled to overflowing this morning, trust the same for you
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Feb 8, 2022 20:01:42 GMT 12
Post by GO30 on Feb 8, 2022 20:01:42 GMT 12
Having installed 3 new water tanks last year, we are now down to our last tank and keeping a close eye on things. Desperate for some actual rain, not this soggy humid shit. All my water tanks filled to overflowing this morning, trust the same for you Yeap mine as well, but we do only have 8400lts, a BFO roof and users who have spent 1/2 their life not on mains supply.
Like a bit more in the top dam though.
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Feb 10, 2022 9:21:14 GMT 12
Post by fish on Feb 10, 2022 9:21:14 GMT 12
I see a tight little low is zooming out of the tropics in time for this weekend. about 988 hPa - looks like it wants to be a tropical revolving storm... Predict Wind is showing gust in the 50 knt range likely either late Sunday or Monday across 3 of the 4 models.
Anyone think there may be a link to the Tonga volcano, all the ash up high, and this completely screwed up weather pattern? The weather has been fucked since either cyclone Cody of the volcano (which occurred over the same weekend if I remember right).
I had to formally apologize to my osteo for the weather. She has just moved here from the UK, and was expecting calm sunny crisp Feb weather/ not this soggy, grey, damp, humid shit. She left England to get away from soggy grey and damp...
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