Hi there,

Spring tide/versus neap, neutral wind - which conditions can be expected
Rounding Neist Point..?? Good fun or something to be avoid at all
costs..?? 4 or 5 Star level..??

hilsen / regards
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steen bondo

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steen bondo wrote:

Spring tide/versus neap, neutral wind - which conditions can be expected
Rounding Neist Point..?? Good fun or something to be avoid at all
costs..?? 4 or 5 Star level..??

Conditions are highly variable, so it could be an easy pootle on a
benign day and verging on suicide on others.

Get a tidal atlas to see what the tides will be doing when, and keep an
eye on the weather. Tides are more a matter of /when/ than if they're
spring or neap, and the atlas will tell you which way they go at ebb and
flow, and how fast.

If you'll be doing much on the west coast you /need/ good tidal
information. It can get quite... "exciting" to be in the wrong place at
the wrong time.

Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Peter Clinch wrote:

Hi Pete,

Get a tidal atlas to see what the tides will be doing when, and keep an
eye on the weather. Tides are more a matter of /when/ than if they're
spring or neap, and the atlas will tell you which way they go at ebb and
flow, and how fast.

Got the atlas, used it for quite some planning in the area - I just
don't feel like rounding Neist (H3/4), without asking a bit around -
slack I don't worry too much about.

hilsen / regards
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steen bondo

http://kajakparadis.dk X http://menzi.dk X http://oz6bu.dk
http://filshuse-teltplads.dk X ftp://ftp.menzi.dk
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