sailing in winter

[Silkie]

Apologies to all and especially dnab as I seem to have made a right erse of moving this topic to Passages and Places and have deleted posts by Mark, myself and Rowana.

I responded to the question of windows of opportunity with this link:

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/singularities.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I promise not to do it again if you gentlemen would care to repost on the Passages and Places version.

[Gardenshed]

surely going from Inverness to Englandshire is "around the scottish coast" or at least around a good bit of it

[Silkie]

AROUND THE SCOTTISH COAST
Post any interesting Scottish sailing news here . . .

[claymore]

That particular forum is a complete load of cobblers
duplicates and dilutes shooting the breeze and passages and places

Personally I think the architect of this mess should have a breeze shot up his passage

its even reduced the Silken one to a babbling sycophant.

Harrumph

[Rowana]

. . . if you gentlemen would care to repost on the Passages and Places version.

Can't remember what I said exactly, but I have sailed from Inverness to Dover on a 40ft cat an the end of October/beginning of November. There were three of us on board - Skipper, one other experienced crew and me. We did it in one go, and had very little wind which resulted in burning a fair bit of diesel.

Wrap up well, watch the forecast, and it should be fine.


(I think that was the gist of my post)

[marisca]

Next week should be a dawdle - high pressure and nae wind. I was supposed to be finishing my annual pilgrimage frae the west to Port Edgar in time for this weekend's regatta but the threat/promise of 5m+ cross seas and a wee tad of wind has the good ship Marisca loitering in Muirtown basin until Sunday when the seas should flatten and the wind fade to nought. Can't say I fancy the donk noise for 36 hours but needs must.