Weather charts from Royal Newfoundland Yacht ClubWhen I got home from our short paddle in Middle Cove on Saturday I was curious what the wind had done over the preceding hours. We had put-in in a 5 knt SW wind but was blowing hard on my drive home.
The Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club has a web page that shows historical wind direction, wind speed, barometric reading and temperature. I was surprised by the steep increase in wind speed shortly after we took out. It was fortuitous that I suggested to Stan that I had enough. The increasing wind speed and swing in the wind from southwest to north would have made for a very tricky take-out on a dumping beach.
Stan was right about a lull in the storm; it was very brief.
Yes Tony it was good to get off but we were already in Middle Cove and I don't think we would have had any problem landing if the wind were to have come up.
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We didn't miscalculate Stan as we were in MC so we would have gotten off in any case even if it would have been a bit trickier in the stronger wind. Might have been interesting!
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yES tONY we might have been able to land on our roof racks! lol
ReplyDeleteAlways good paddling with you buddy even if I hogged a lot of shots that day. ;-), lol Still got to work on the video yet.
Stan