Good Morning Good Night and General Chat.

[skyrider]

24 minutes ago, rennie said:

Good Afternoon 

 

proper dismal weather here

yes it was lashing down here too this morning and it is still grey cool and breezy

[JRH]

Not stopped raining here yet🌧. Been going all day

[dynax]

Good morning weather still crappy

 

On a positive note managed to unlock my FB account, I was able to get another sim card sent out with the old number reactivated, which I received yesterday

[rennie]

Good Morning  Drier here today!

I've even washed my bike! 

[Stu]

Good afternoon from work!

 

Which means it's six days off after Wednesday

 

 

Don't tell @Hoggs she hates me having time off

[Hoggs]

I'm more surprised when you're actually in work these days

[Stu]

2 hours ago, Hoggs said:

I'm more surprised when you're actually in work these days

 

I turn up! 

[rennie]

Good Morning 

[JRH]

Morning. Watching Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets on Sky arts. Should really go to bed.

[S-Westerly]

Wish I could go to bed. Mine is currently bouncing around thanks to some crappy weather out in the Atlantic here. Pitching and rolling so not good for sleeping.

[dynax]

5 hours ago, JRH said:

Morning. Watching Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets on Sky arts. Should really go to bed.

 

I was watching a program called the Mary Millington story don't know which channel it was on though, so not sure if it's available on catch up or anything, but really interesting

[dynax]

Good morning seems to be brightening up a bit but forecast for showers later

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

4 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Wish I could go to bed. Mine is currently bouncing around thanks to some crappy weather out in the Atlantic here. Pitching and rolling so not good for sleeping.

That's got to be pretty rough weather then. I imagine it's a pretty big boat.

[Bender]

1 minute ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

That's got to be pretty rough weather then. I imagine it's a pretty big boat.

No due to cuts and environmental concernsI i belive he's been given a skiff and is delivering barrels of crude individually , last seen rowing out of Portsmouth with a large supply of spinach and a pipe  

 

 

@S-Westerly good luck with the weather.

[dynax]

Just had a message from the interested party and he has upped his offer to £925

[Ian Frog]

57 minutes ago, dynax said:

Just had a message from the interested party and he has upped his offer to £925

Still a little way to go but at least he is moving the right way.

Cheers

Ian

[dynax]

2 minutes ago, Ian Frog said:

Still a little way to go but at least he is moving the right way.

Cheers

Ian

 

Very slowly though, but he has offered me cash today for it.

 

[S-Westerly]

7 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

That's got to be pretty rough weather then. I imagine it's a pretty big boat.

You'd be surprised. It doesn't have to be that rough for us to roll heavily. You just need a big enough swell from the wrong direction and we'll be rolling our guts out, sometimes for days. Right now the wind is only 25 knots but there's a 5 metre swell more or less on our beam. Hence we roll and probably will for a couple of days.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

51 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

You'd be surprised. It doesn't have to be that rough for us to roll heavily. You just need a big enough swell from the wrong direction and we'll be rolling our guts out, sometimes for days. Right now the wind is only 25 knots but there's a 5 metre swell more or less on our beam. Hence we roll and probably will for a couple of days.

I remember being on a bulk grain carrier brand new out of the Mitshubishi shipyard - they'd been through a massive storm and the roll indicator showed all of 3 degrees movement. I suppose oil is a different cargo than grain though. 

 

On the other hand, some of the grain got spilt on the quay and then it rained, by the time I got there and hooned it round the corner the result was a skidpan that was more slippery than anything I've ever known before.

[S-Westerly]

It's worse for us at the moment as we aren't carrying a full load so all that oil is sloshing around inside partly loaded tanks. Biggest roll I can remember was 35 degrees on a vlcc- doesn't sound that dramatic until you calculate the bridge wing mover through an arc of 120 metres.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Literally every bit of gear I own is hanging up dripping all over the floors. I went out this morning and whilst there had been a light shower previously the weather was sunny and the sky looked pretty clear. I only had to go a few miles so I didn't think it would rain too much. Wrong. It lashed it down so hard traffic was brought to a standstill. Even the inside of my helmet is soaked.

 

Just been out again thinking it wouldn't happen twice - big mistake. 

[Mickly]

1 hour ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Literally every bit of gear I own is hanging up dripping all over the floors. I went out this morning and whilst there had been a light shower previously the weather was sunny and the sky looked pretty clear. I only had to go a few miles so I didn't think it would rain too much. Wrong. It lashed it down so hard traffic was brought to a standstill. Even the inside of my helmet is soaked.

 

Just been out again thinking it wouldn't happen twice - big mistake. 

When I got caught out in a light hailstorm last week, I ended up with water in my visor pin lock, at least the kit dries out well in the conservatory.

[fastbob]

49 minutes ago, Mickly said:

When I got caught out in a light hailstorm last week, I ended up with water in my visor pin lock, at least the kit dries out well in the conservatory.

We had thunder in Cov this afternoon . 

[Mickly]

18 minutes ago, fastbob said:

We had thunder in Cov this afternoon . 

Yep, I was in the conservatory having an online meeting - it made me jump & I had to mute coz of the noise of the rain drumming down.

[skyrider]

16 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Wish I could go to bed. Mine is currently bouncing around thanks to some crappy weather out in the Atlantic here. Pitching and rolling so not good for sleeping.

could rock you to sleep though