Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

cut off again........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26042990

Well six weeks minimum without a railway line to the south west. This part of the country is taking a hell of a hammering. For overseas readers, these websites will give you the situation. for UK readers, especially those in the south west and along the River Severn....my thoughts are with you all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26044323

Will this weather ever end?

Steve
All photographs copyright BBC

my beloved Plymouth Hoe a few hours ago and below the damage at the very spot where this wave is breaking

 
Meanwhile in Looe - not for the first time has the tide come into the town in the last few weeks
 
And in Porthleven, well pretty terrifying really
 
I believe six boats sunk in PorthLeven!
 
Back closer to home at Kingsand, a place Arwen and I often sail over to - just across the sound
 
Most of the beach appears to be in the streets with associated window damage!
 
This was Newlyn!
 
and here we are - cut off once again - our only railway line to the south west from the rest of the country.....at Dawlish - the seawall and embankment seem to have disappeared!
 
 
 
 
 

6 comments:

Paul Mullings said...

Gee Wizz things are looking bad in your hemisphere hope they improve soon. On an older post this link may interest
http://www.widgetsailor.com/sbjournal/tent/tent2.html
Cheers
Paul

Bursledon Blogger said...

The telegraph have some stunning pictures - for once the word awesome is appropriate

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10619568/In-pictures-storms-batter-Britain.html?frame=2813042

Joel Bergen said...

I heard about the Ghost Ship full of cannibal rats heading your way, but this looks much worse.

steve said...

Thanks Paul
I ordered and got a copy of small wooden boats magazine. Very interesting on tents. Thanks for the tip

In meantime saw the photos max ......wow! Give a sense of realism. It is pretty grim at the moment and no let up in sight anywhere.

Steve

steve said...

hey Joel
How you doing?

yep - interesting dilemma - the weather or cannibalistic rats.....there's a good chance the ship will sink in the weather before reaching shore!

I blame you lot across the pond. Your polar vortex and all that!!
Only joking although it does seem that the jet stream locked in its current position is bring massive weather systems across from the east coast USA etc - are east coasters catching weather like that experienced here in UK?

Steve

Joel Bergen said...

It's impossible to do anything about the weather, but we have plenty of experience dealing with cannibal rats. We elect them and ship them off to Washington DC.

Yeah, the East coast has been in a deep freeze for a while but (knock on wood) we out here on the Left coast have been sneaking by unnoticed.