Guest Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 KM - Amateur mistake that reads like a met service forecast..! The perfect weekend forecast. ! What's better? Preparing for 35-40 and then getting 70 or Preparing for 70 and then getting 35-40 Sea Scout training kicking in here That's 70 is supposedly Friday nite knot Saturday race day. The race isn't a worry, me boats on moorings are a tad though. If one gets loose there are very few others out on the moorings it just won't roll completely over the top of. 60ft of steel will cause a lot of carnage if it heads off the wrong way. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 With that sort of tail wind flights from Aussie to NZ should be damn cheap! Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 With that sort of tail wind flights from Aussie to NZ should be damn cheap! or expensive - cos they'll be so fast! Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 So how's it going there? Or should that be how's it blowing? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Bit fresh but nothing scary yet, had a lot of rain mid afternoon Link to post Share on other sites
Battleship 100 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 getting pretty windy here now 56 knots!! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Auckland Airport has a current TEMPO (temporary weather change of some significance) saying 50kts between 1800 and 2200. QNH down to 994 hPa. She's still dropping, was 999 at 1600. Bean and Tamaki - low to mid 40's Tiri - late 40's Manukau Heads - late 50's ... Ouch! That's pretty cool willow. What, where from and etc?? Link to post Share on other sites
Battleship 100 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 here http://www.port-tauranga.co.nz/Environment/Harbour-Conditions/ Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 That's pretty cool willow. What, where from and etc?? http://www.portoftauranga.co.nz/Environ ... onditions/ a program called Enview Link to post Share on other sites
morspeed 1 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 'Now' casting' has Tiri peaking at 70, Bean rock and Tamaki strait peaking in late 50's over the last hour A few choice gusts coming up the strait and hitting us at Half Moon bay. Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 322 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 It's dead calm down here in the bay, got a bit windy when I headed to the pub at 4:00. Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 Sounds like it's building. Good luck for tomorrow whoever's going? Link to post Share on other sites
col j 0 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 tied the bbq and furniture down and jamed a few wedges in the garage door to stop the fking thing from rattling. if theres no racing tomorow im getting the blow kart out. Link to post Share on other sites
BelowPAR 0 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 keep an eye on this one http://windsurf.co.nz/windsurf_weather_alk.asp For the record, i have never seen the average over 40 on these cams.. Currently 44 at Pt Chev, so its up there. Link to post Share on other sites
wal 27 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Got the windows well rattling here in the 'Chev Link to post Share on other sites
Bogan 8 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 So far you'd say that metservice has been close to the money. Not too bad during the day, but in the NW, so pretty sheltered in the harbour. It's cranked around to the west now and built up considerably. Pretty brisk here in the 'chev right now. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 It blew pretty fresh last night, a lot of damage out here in the west. But the worst was observed by Bonnie (my dog) and me on our morning perigrination. The builder's porta potty on the job down the road, blew over with disastrous results. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 One shredded roller furler off Birkenhead. We have lost the reflector lid off the outdoor heater. Time for some s/s bolts. Is that the newly launched Eagle 55 on the mooring off Bayswater? Link to post Share on other sites
Zoe 8 Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 We are on the end of a peninsula on the Manukau. The harbour looks like maybe 30 knots but in our little bay the gusts were strong enough this morning to create quite a bit of spray - and low tide so the water was completely flat. Some of the gusts whistling over our roof are probably 40 so I'd believe that it's 70 at the Heads. Link to post Share on other sites
Murky 1 Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 the worst was observed by Bonnie (my dog) and me on our morning perigrination. The builder's porta potty on the job down the road, blew over with disastrous results. a) Top marks for extending the collective crew.org vocabulary with the use of perigrination, reaching for the dictionary now Some things are just too hideous to be cleaned up and should be either buried or burned on the spot and never mentioned again. Link to post Share on other sites
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