Trip dates:
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
I was fooled by this fake fox on the pier...wonder if the ducks are?
a puff to 17 on the instru
someone got weather, all we got was wind
Sheesh. I'm convinced the city is a wind factory. I mean, I've always known it but last night was a text book example of:
- when the temps reach 90+ and the streets are 100+, the resulting localized mesoscale (or microscale?) Low generates whole bunches of breeze.
- witness: Station 44043 about 5 nm SE of our venue, out by 7 Foot Knoll, saw only 4-8 kn between 1830 and 2000 hrs.
- same thing with Tolchester Beach, which saw only 2-6 all evening.
- whereas: when the windline got to us, we had 10-15 on with gusts to 18 kn.
That's a big difference.
Still a beautiful evening on the river and we could not complain about the heat. For a change.