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Title: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Stan on March 04, 2018, 01:46:27 pm

HI  from a very cold north of England. No sailing done this morning still cold  lake frozen just a few pictures of our sailing water and park area during the cold snap.

Stan. :((

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Netleyned on March 04, 2018, 01:48:50 pm

No problem at Cleethorpes.
No one turned up apart from me >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(


Temp 7C


Ned

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Netleyned on March 04, 2018, 01:51:57 pm

Quote from: Stan on March 04, 2018, 01:46:27 pm

HI  from a very cold north of England. No sailing done this morning still cold  lake frozen just a few pictures of our sailing water and park area during the cold snap.

Stan. :((

Blizzards  doon South
Just a Cold Snap oop North.
Time for the big coat
 :} :} :}


Ned

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: imsinking on March 04, 2018, 04:09:10 pm

Our lake at New Brighton has been freezing over since Wednesday, it's the real deal now . . . .
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/B4FNo7.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnB4FNo7j)
In 1/12 scale the ice is 4ft thick , so an ICE BREAKER wouldn't cut it  {:-{  we've broken up the ice about 6ft (2 metres for you Euro's) out all round to stop the scallies trying to walk on it , bound to be complaints in the local rag or twitter . . . WE DONT CARE  {-)  safety first . . .
Bill

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: dougal99 on March 04, 2018, 04:13:19 pm

Inch and a half thick ice at the edge in Peterborough. Swans acting as ice breakers on the thinner stuff in the middle. Colin's tugs were nowhere to be seen. then he does have Australian flu - it keeps coming back   {-)

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: unbuiltnautilus on March 04, 2018, 04:29:27 pm

Salty :-)  Watery :-)

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: timgarrod on March 04, 2018, 04:36:00 pm

this is alvaston park most of the week. typically the week i have off and can't sail lol

 (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2018/03/04/lake2.th.png) (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/B6OZv) (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2018/03/04/lake.jpg)  (http://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/B6i75)

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Neil on March 04, 2018, 04:47:13 pm

I rescued a duck that was iced in at the Fleetwood paddling pool lake yesterday.......got my shoes, feet n trousers wet but it's only about 18 inches deep and the quack from the duck was thanks enough, poor little thing..........flew away ok though. <:(


I wanted to keep it for our back garden, but with a nutter of a pug to contend with thought it a bad idea, lol %% %%

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: kinmel on March 04, 2018, 10:33:35 pm

No snow or ice left at Colwyn Bay this morning.

Not that it mattered because we were all cosy and warm in the clubhouse for the A.G.M.

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Charlie on March 05, 2018, 09:09:15 am

This was the scene in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, last Friday. Things have warmed up a bit since :-)


There is no club here any more, which is a bit of a shame.


Charlie

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Neil on March 05, 2018, 06:27:55 pm

Quote from: Charlie on March 05, 2018, 09:09:15 am

This was the scene in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, last Friday. Things have warmed up a bit since :-) 
There is no club here any more, which is a bit of a shame.
Charlie

beautiful looking scenery Charlie...........but i'd prefer it about 25 degrees warmer, lol.

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Peter Fitness on March 05, 2018, 09:56:09 pm

Winter time in northern NSW :D


Peter.

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Charlie on March 14, 2018, 07:39:31 pm

Hi Peter,


Looks a bit warmer in your pic! There is another cold snap heading our way for this weekend apparently {:-{


Charlie

Title: Re: Whats your sailing water like in the cold snap
Post by: Peter Fitness on March 14, 2018, 10:02:26 pm

Quite a bit warmer Charlie. In this part of Australia, our winter temps sometimes go below freezing of a night, but daytime temps are usually in the late teens or early 20s, quite a difference to what the UK, Europe, and parts of the US have been experiencing lately. The snowfields of southern NSW and Victoria are a different matter entirely.


Peter.