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Heart of Gold beats the Rain!
It seems everyday is a T-Storm! We skirted them for a quick lunch sail today! http://GhostLight.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p620467244-5.jpg Cheers! RB 35s5 NY |
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On Jun 15, 5:28*pm, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
It seems everyday is a T-Storm! We skirted them for a quick lunch sail today! http://GhostLight.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p620467244-5.jpg Cheers! RB 35s5 NY H'lo Rob. I doubt y'all 'ud know a REAL thunderstorm. What you get is "rain showers". Dont be too afraid o' getting your sails wet. It isnt rainin hard till the gators an snakes is tryin to come aboard to stay dry. |
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H'lo Rob. I doubt y'all 'ud know a REAL thunderstorm. What you get is "rain showers". Dont be too afraid o' getting your sails wet. It isnt rainin hard till the gators an snakes is tryin to come aboard to stay dry. I got nailed a few times by T-Storms that were very nasty. One of them ended up being among the worst in recent years with winds in the 80 MPH range. I had no experience with my Catalina 27 and left out a couple feet of genny. Yep, it blew out the sail in a heartbeat. The very short duration of such blasts is the only saving grace. Since those days I've been caught on occasion, but never like that 1st time. RB 35s5 NY |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:15:39 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote: On Jun 15, 5:28*pm, "Capt. Rob" wrote: It seems everyday is a T-Storm! We skirted them for a quick lunch sail today! http://GhostLight.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p620467244-5.jpg Cheers! RB 35s5 NY H'lo Rob. I doubt y'all 'ud know a REAL thunderstorm. What you get is "rain showers". You couldn't be more wrong. LIS gets compact but very powerful cells all summer long. Almost daily. We call them "Little Fists of Fury". They are spectacular. Usually there is space between them that you can squeeze through if you have enough warning before they reach you. Dont be too afraid o' getting your sails wet. It isnt rainin hard till the gators an snakes is tryin to come aboard to stay dry. |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:11:26 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:35:32 -0400, wrote: You couldn't be more wrong. LIS gets compact but very powerful cells all summer long. Almost daily. We call them "Little Fists of Fury". They are spectacular. Usually there is space between them that you can squeeze through if you have enough warning before they reach you. The really bad guys on LIS (and New England) in my experience are the slow moving cold fronts that come down from the north west in July and August. They come at you like a white squall and there are *no* gaps to squeeze through. We first experienced one in the summer of 1975 on an evening cruise from Mystic to Block Island. The wind blew 50 kts plus for over half an hour creating blinding spray and really large seas in no time at all. When we pulled into Great Salt Pond after the storm, at least half of the boats had broken loose and were agound on the edge of the pond. The same front spawned a tornado 30 miles east at Cuttyhunk with a lot of damage there also. Weather forecasting has gotten a lot better since then but it's still possible to get "caught out" if you are offshore with no good place to duck in to. Last June 8th, we got nailed pretty badly by a solid line of squalls from the west. There was absolutely no escape. They were moving so fast that the first one hit us before the CG broadcast their first warning. Fortunately, I had already seen that ominous, weird colored low dark line and knew what it was. I verified with RADAR that it was an unbroken mass stretching all the way across the LIS. That's VERY unusual. Usually, thunder storms here are compact and fairly slow moving. You can see their shape on RADAR and sail around them like a giant pinball game. Not this time. We immediately dropped the sails, and made sure everything was locked, latched and tied down. We donned life vests and clipped on. By the time the second one hit us, we had already been knocked down once, and seas had gone from 1 foot swells to steep 6-7 footers. The tops were blowing off them. We couldn't make any headway, so we didn't have any steering for periods. Every time there was any slackening, I would get my bearings and head away from land to try and gain some space. From the time I saw that line on the horizon, to when it reached us was about 15-20 minutes. It was like a freight train. A very fast freight train. Oh, yeah, there was lightning hitting the water all around us the whole time. I mean constantly, and CLOSE. We emerged from the first cell, and barely had time to catch ou breath before we were in a second one that was more ferocious than the first. We got knocked down a second time. It's a good thing we were clipped in, because I'm pretty sure we would have been thrown off on that second knock down. Afterwards, my wife mentioned that at one point, she felt cold wind blowing on one shoulder and the sensation of hot wind as if from a guiant hair dryer, on the other. I explained to her that she had just been exactly in the middle of a wind shear. Based on general experience, and also the fact that the boat got knocked flat with the sails furled, I estimate the winds reached over 70 MPH. Only damage to the boat was missing windex, broken antenna mount and destroyed wind instrument. We learned later that someone at a beach was killed by lightning from the same system about 3 miles from where we were. http://www.1010wins.com/pages/2330657.php? |
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Did you work on the Einac too while this was going on?
BS meter pinned! wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:11:26 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:35:32 -0400, wrote: You couldn't be more wrong. LIS gets compact but very powerful cells all summer long. Almost daily. We call them "Little Fists of Fury". They are spectacular. Usually there is space between them that you can squeeze through if you have enough warning before they reach you. The really bad guys on LIS (and New England) in my experience are the slow moving cold fronts that come down from the north west in July and August. They come at you like a white squall and there are *no* gaps to squeeze through. We first experienced one in the summer of 1975 on an evening cruise from Mystic to Block Island. The wind blew 50 kts plus for over half an hour creating blinding spray and really large seas in no time at all. When we pulled into Great Salt Pond after the storm, at least half of the boats had broken loose and were agound on the edge of the pond. The same front spawned a tornado 30 miles east at Cuttyhunk with a lot of damage there also. Weather forecasting has gotten a lot better since then but it's still possible to get "caught out" if you are offshore with no good place to duck in to. Last June 8th, we got nailed pretty badly by a solid line of squalls from the west. There was absolutely no escape. They were moving so fast that the first one hit us before the CG broadcast their first warning. Fortunately, I had already seen that ominous, weird colored low dark line and knew what it was. I verified with RADAR that it was an unbroken mass stretching all the way across the LIS. That's VERY unusual. Usually, thunder storms here are compact and fairly slow moving. You can see their shape on RADAR and sail around them like a giant pinball game. Not this time. We immediately dropped the sails, and made sure everything was locked, latched and tied down. We donned life vests and clipped on. By the time the second one hit us, we had already been knocked down once, and seas had gone from 1 foot swells to steep 6-7 footers. The tops were blowing off them. We couldn't make any headway, so we didn't have any steering for periods. Every time there was any slackening, I would get my bearings and head away from land to try and gain some space. From the time I saw that line on the horizon, to when it reached us was about 15-20 minutes. It was like a freight train. A very fast freight train. Oh, yeah, there was lightning hitting the water all around us the whole time. I mean constantly, and CLOSE. We emerged from the first cell, and barely had time to catch ou breath before we were in a second one that was more ferocious than the first. We got knocked down a second time. It's a good thing we were clipped in, because I'm pretty sure we would have been thrown off on that second knock down. Afterwards, my wife mentioned that at one point, she felt cold wind blowing on one shoulder and the sensation of hot wind as if from a guiant hair dryer, on the other. I explained to her that she had just been exactly in the middle of a wind shear. Based on general experience, and also the fact that the boat got knocked flat with the sails furled, I estimate the winds reached over 70 MPH. Only damage to the boat was missing windex, broken antenna mount and destroyed wind instrument. We learned later that someone at a beach was killed by lightning from the same system about 3 miles from where we were. http://www.1010wins.com/pages/2330657.php? |
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wrote in message ... Afterwards, my wife mentioned that at one point, she felt cold wind blowing on one shoulder and the sensation of hot wind as if from a guiant hair dryer, on the other. I explained to her that she had just been exactly in the middle of a wind shear. Wind shear has vertical temperature gradients, not horizontal. If she had experienced wind shear she would have noted wind of two greatly different velocities (speed and direction) on each shoulder. I'd say it was menopause if anything. Based on general experience, and also the fact that the boat got knocked flat with the sails furled, I estimate the winds reached over 70 MPH. Sounds like Jaxashby sailing with bare poles. So a 70 mph wind across a mast and hull will knock it over? Maybe the waves knocked it over, but not the wind. How did you get sideways to the wind? Yes, LIS the Cape Horn of the Northern Hemisphere. Maybe that's why there are no large ships in there, it is too dangerous. |
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:01:46 -0400, "Mac Donald"
wrote: wrote in message .. . Afterwards, my wife mentioned that at one point, she felt cold wind blowing on one shoulder and the sensation of hot wind as if from a guiant hair dryer, on the other. I explained to her that she had just been exactly in the middle of a wind shear. Wind shear has vertical temperature gradients, not horizontal. If she had experienced wind shear she would have noted wind of two greatly different velocities (speed and direction) on each shoulder. I'd say it was menopause if anything. Based on general experience, and also the fact that the boat got knocked flat with the sails furled, I estimate the winds reached over 70 MPH. Sounds like Jaxashby sailing with bare poles. So a 70 mph wind across a mast and hull will knock it over? Maybe the waves knocked it over, but not the wind. How did you get sideways to the wind? Yes, LIS the Cape Horn of the Northern Hemisphere. Maybe that's why there are no large ships in there, it is too dangerous. You lose on all counts, dingbat. See ya! |
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