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pastmember
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Initially Posted - 04/15/2011 : 15:06:37

Our wind gusts today have been running in the 50's, as high as 60. Our weather simply calls this a windy day with gusts as high as 60; what would they call a day like this where you live?

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redviking
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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 15:08:44

A Gale...

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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 15:29:57

freakin' windy

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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 15:35:53

I am now seeing the reports of tornados across the south, I apologize if this topic seems frivolous when so many people have suffered damage.

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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 17:23:53

Those gusts are only 14 mph shy of hurricane force winds....that's a stay home day for me, both boat and motorcycle.

We've had winds today steady in the high 30's to 40's with gusts up to 50 or so. Up in Wichita Falls they've had steady winds of 48 with gusts to 55 and 60.....

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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 17:29:42

According to a news story I heard this evening, a spokesperson for the NWS said this storm produced some of the deadliest straight line winds they'd seen in a very long time. Apparently, falling trees took out homes which produced some fatalities in the midwest.

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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 17:50:47

I saw that...mother and child....18 month old survived. Very sad.

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Response Posted - 04/16/2011 : 07:51:45

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">what would they call a day like this where you live?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

<center>Santa Ana Winds</center>

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Response Posted - 04/16/2011 : 08:57:35

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by pastmember
 ...what would they call a day like this where you live?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">"Tonight." (Well, probably not quite, but...)

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Response Posted - 04/16/2011 : 13:39:35

More crazy weather back east.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 06:16:29

Yepper.. I stayed in until I went out.. just at the end of some of it. It was wild at home Friday night watching the red sky, and dead still night. The birds all go quiet. Saturday night I went out and had a crossing that had the engine rev up out of the water on some of the waves. Anchored up into a sheltered cove and you could hear the wind in the trees. Sailed all yesterday.

All this and a full moon... spring storms to remember.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 09:13:46

Apparently we had some tornados here in Tennessee. Saw it on the news last night after we got home from racing in Chattanooga. In between race 1 and 2 on Saturday, I clocked winds in the high teens to mid 20's and several gusts at 30 and 31 mph. Sunday we couldn't even get enough wind to start a race. It was a C-22 only regatta called the Chattanooga Challenge. We didn't do so well. We considered starting with the working jib, and I wanted to, but the skipper went with the genoa. Also, the fleet was split on this issue. After getting pummeled in the first race as well as being over early, we switched to the jib for the 2nd race.
We sailed the 2nd race better, but we were still overpowered. It was a brutal day, but the club's fireplace was warm and the BBQ dinner was perfect.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 09:44:12

I went out on Friday afternoon. I had checked earlier before I left work and the winds were supposed to be 10-15mph with gusts to 20mph. In the protection of the marina, I could tell there were some high gusts and so I reefed my main before going out but once out, the winds became stronger. I was out for a couple of hours and when returning, I had one heck of a time taking down the main before heading into the marina. First, there was significant wave action and it was perhaps the first time that I had to run my outboard at a fairly high clip to maintain direction into the wind. Oftentimes, when returning to the marina, I will not start my outboard finding that heading into the wind and temporarily locking the tiller dead ahead into the wind, I can go topside and tend to the sails. I wid up drifting by the time I get everything ready and turn my outboard on but this time even with running the outboard at above moderate speed, I had a hard time keeping into the wind. I finally did get the main down and semi-tied down to keep it from filling with wind and headed into the marina. Just running the outboard with sail down, I had to run the outboard above moderate speed to line up and getinto the opening to the marina. Once inside, things were obviously a whole lot better and my slip is located in what usually is a semi-wind protected area and so that helped as well. No issues docking but had some time out there. Not sure what the winds were but I estimate around 30 mph or so.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 10:03:29

I went down to the boatyard yesterday in hopes of putting on a coat of bottom paint, but the wind kept building to the point I thought I may end up with more paint on me than the boat. So I packed it in and went home.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 10:12:03

We had 80 MPH straight line winds on Thursday evening from the same system that ended up killing 17 people throughout the south. Luckily my plane from San Fran landed about an hour before the storm hit at DFW. My bat did fine, but another guys roller furled genny got shredded.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 10:46:40

Yepper.. the morning was rough...

But it smoothed out by afternoon...

Chips Ahoy!

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 10:53:05

Ray, I'm tellin!

My wife would shoot me if I ever posted a "before" picture.

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 11:15:15

#1 girlfriend has a great sense of humor. ( many days ) The wake up on sailboats can be something else.. The wind howled all night... when we got up I thought I was gonna hafta crack out a flare...

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 12:25:13

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by redeye
 The wake up on sailboats can be something else.. The wind howled all night...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

With the motion, noise, and thoughts of spiders coming out of the rafters, my wife always had a hard time getting a good nights sleep on the boat.

(Well, okay. I'll take a chance on getting shot)

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 15:02:21

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by OLarryR
 I went out on Friday afternoon. I had checked earlier before I left work and the winds were supposed to be 10-15mph with gusts to 20mph. In the protection of the marina, I could tell there were some high gusts and so I reefed my main before going out but once out, the winds became stronger. I was out for a couple of hours and when returning, I had one heck of a time taking down the main before heading into the marina. First, there was significant wave action and it was perhaps the first time that I had to run my outboard at a fairly high clip to maintain direction into the wind. Oftentimes, when returning to the marina, I will not start my outboard finding that heading into the wind and temporarily locking the tiller dead ahead into the wind, I can go topside and tend to the sails. I wid up drifting by the time I get everything ready and turn my outboard on but this time even with running the outboard at above moderate speed, I had a hard time keeping into the wind. I finally did get the main down and semi-tied down to keep it from filling with wind and headed into the marina. Just running the outboard with sail down, I had to run the outboard above moderate speed to line up and getinto the opening to the marina. Once inside, things were obviously a whole lot better and my slip is located in what usually is a semi-wind protected area and so that helped as well. No issues docking but had some time out there. Not sure what the winds were but I estimate around 30 mph or so.
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Welcome to my world everytime I go out in the bay! If the winds not strong the boat wakes from one cruiser after another toss you around like a cork in a washing machine.

I don't have a furler so it gets exciting on the foredeck in these conditions. I learned pretty quickly that it's much easier for me to raise my sails in the channel just before I hit the bay and leave them up until I'm back in the channel at the end of the day. Unfortunately, some days there are too many boats in the channel to do that so I have to suck it up and hang on for dear life.

You'd think with this much hassle I'd have already installed the Harken Mark IV furler I bought last October! Somehow sailing always seems like the better idea when I get down to the boat

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 16:32:32

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by GaryB
 You'd think with this much hassle I'd have already installed the Harken Mark IV furler I bought last October! Somehow sailing always seems like the better idea when I get down to the boat<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Oh, but once you install that baby you'll be kicking yourself for not installing it last October!

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Response Posted - 04/18/2011 : 18:26:38

I'm pretty sure you are 100% correct! Now if I could only find someone to help me that has done it before.

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Response Posted - 04/19/2011 : 12:34:20

We had small people warnings in the marina on Friday - gusting probably well over 40k.
Fortunately on Saturday for our Fiesta Regatta we were almost in drifter conditions the kind in which we do very well (2 firsts).

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Response Posted - 04/19/2011 : 12:56:35

The PGA tourney was fighting the wind in SA, Friday scores were terrible.

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Response Posted - 04/19/2011 : 14:51:53

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Derek Crawford
 ...we were almost in drifter conditions the kind in which we do very well (2 firsts).<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Derek, what conditions do you not do very well in--tornadoes? (The shifts are tricky.)

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 04/19/2011 14:52:39

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