Whoa - Nelly !!

Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 17:32:27 -0400


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Harry Gordon said.....

snip... it just seems slow when you are going downwind because of the
drop in relative wind. It's easy to be lulled into a false sense of
security; then you come about and ...Whoa Nelly! Where did all that wind
come from? ...snip

Absolutely! Or as we used to say in the Army "Abso-expletive
deleted-lutely"!

My wife and I were out on the Potomac last Sunday and we tacked down
river several miles and the did a dead down wind run to get home. The
wind going down river was nice -- probably 10-12 MPH. As we returned up
river to get back home, I summoned my wife from her nap below to see the
nice wake we were putting up -- we even had a little following wave like
the big boats. I didn't think anything about it. Then we passed
several police boats and an overturned Newport 17 --- and I didn't think
anything about it. Then we made the left turn into the marina - Whoa
Nelly! I was able to get into the lee of the marina inlet with some
struggle, but it was exciting for a while. I checked weather
underground (http://www.weatherunderground.com/ ) wind history for the
afternoon and it said that there were gusts of 25+ MPH at the time.

Lesson learned -- but, boy, were we flying!

Regards All
Rye

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Harry Gordon said.....

snip...   it just seems slow when you are going downwind because of the drop in relative wind. It's easy to be lulled into a false sense of security; then you come about and ...Whoa Nelly! Where did all that wind come from?   ...snip

Absolutely!  Or as we used to say in the Army "Abso-expletive deleted-lutely"!

My wife and I were out on the Potomac last Sunday and we tacked down river several miles and the did a dead down wind run to get home.  The wind going down river was nice -- probably 10-12 MPH.  As we returned up river to get back home, I summoned my wife from her nap below to see the nice wake we were putting up -- we even had a little following wave like the big boats.  I didn't think anything about it.  Then we passed several police boats and an overturned Newport 17 --- and I didn't think anything about it.  Then we made the left turn into the marina - Whoa Nelly!   I was able to get into the lee of the marina inlet with some struggle, but it was exciting for a while.  I checked weather underground (http://www.weatherunderground.com/ ) wind history for the afternoon  and it said that there were gusts of 25+ MPH at the time.

Lesson learned -- but, boy, were we flying!

Regards All
Rye
 
 
 
 
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