Sailing this weekend

[azziria]

Extended shipping forecast for this coming weekend:

Strong southwesterly winds on Friday will increase to gale-force for a time in northern parts of Fitzroy and Biscay as well as Sole, Fastnet and Plymouth. Winds veer westerly later Friday with gales persisting for a time through the English Channel. Strong westerly winds continue during Saturday across much of the area before easing back by Sunday morning.

So, we're racing from Cowes to Cherbourg, gun time 1900 Friday. Looks like a bumpy start, a beam reach all the way over, and then a more gentle run back on Sunday. Also not the weather (or the wind direction) for trying out our new spinnaker!

Can't wait :)

Comments

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Wittering is a particularly nice little Briticism that means someone is going on and on about something of *absolutely* no consequence whatsover. You pay little attention to what someone who is 'wittering on' is saying ("What on Earth are you wittering on about now?").

Particularly useful now that 'twittering' has come to mean something totally different from what it used to...

And it would have to be a sailing boat, a yacht of some description. The Royal Navy actually borrowed a boat I sailed a couple of years back once for a team to take down to the Southern Ocean... I could just see that Steve might have done something like that, so when Danny's complaining Steve would be all "But this is nothing, Danny, when we were down in the Southern Ocean we were facing 40-foot waves...", which would have Danny vowing to get his own back... just as soon as he stopped throwing up...

[lj_stowaway]

Oh please write this! Oh please, ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!

[alamo-girl80.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna jump in here with caliecat and say WRITE THIS AT SOME POINT!

Because oh, the image you cut of Steve at the wheel and Danny wittering on, and Steve just wanting to share another piece of himself with Danny...