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...a sailor I have been forecasting for, hoping to traverse Cape Hprn for the first time in a Rib! Reports today that the wind speed there was 90kts! He didn't sail today :)

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weatherman wrote:Reports today that the wind speed there was 90kts!
So what had you forecast? :)
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40 gust 60kt :(
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Well - you were in the right general area. It definitely wasn't sailing weather either way. :shock:
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He probably got a bit of a ribbing..
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Didn't Ridgeway canoe round there with his daughter a few years ago, or is memory playing tricks again.
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In 1992 perhaps.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge ... geway.html

He sailed round in 2004.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6025268
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