Roompot 2 Days
12/08/06 12:41 Filed in: The Netherlands
Sunday 13th July
Weather forecast indicates NW force 7 in Thames. I decide I don't want to risk being out in a force 7 so decide to stay another day and have a sunday layin. Roompot is a large marina attached to a huge holiday park. Not a lot to visit so decide to revist the scene of yesterdays navigational malfunction.
The breakwater is constructed mainly of lumps of recycled concrete which are heavily covered in weed and relatively flat. Impact seems to have been more glancing than full on which probably explains the comparitively minor nature of the damage. Antifoul is clearly visible at the point of impact. Very lucky that impact was not a bit further south or damage could have been much worse.
In the event local weather was OK during the day but the wind picked up in the evening with force 7 again forecast tomorrow.
Monday 14th August
Wind increased during the night and really started to blow around breakfast time. Added a second spring and checked all lines and fenders. Remain on board to clean up and do some reading.
Heavy rain and winds gusting to 32 knots (F7) by 15:00 at which time I check the moorings again. Constant surging has caused two fenders to work clear allowing the hull to rub directly on the pontoon. Some scratching but hopefully not too deep as I spotted it fairly quickly. Both large flat fenders are deployed and three tube fenders secured diagonally which seems to solve the problem.
A lot of boats are having the same problem and several of us assit by pushing fenders back on unoccupied boats. One boat loses a genoa as it unfurls and is shredded in the wind. Kiriwina is listing noticably to port under the force of the wind. Very glad I am not out at sea today.
Our piece of breakwater now marked with red antifouling.
Wallet marking our contact point - taken at low water.
Breakwater almost submerged as tide rises
From another angle.
At high water. Poles marking entry at top of picture.
Looking away from the marina.
Shows entry marker pole and last channel buoy.
Aerial view of Roompot.
Kiriwina pushed hard onto the pontoon finger by the wind.
Note wind has pushed adjacent boat off her finger.
Kiriwina heeled over on her berth. Note chop on the water whipped up over a fetch
of only 300-400 yards.
It's raining out there!
Weather forecast indicates NW force 7 in Thames. I decide I don't want to risk being out in a force 7 so decide to stay another day and have a sunday layin. Roompot is a large marina attached to a huge holiday park. Not a lot to visit so decide to revist the scene of yesterdays navigational malfunction.
The breakwater is constructed mainly of lumps of recycled concrete which are heavily covered in weed and relatively flat. Impact seems to have been more glancing than full on which probably explains the comparitively minor nature of the damage. Antifoul is clearly visible at the point of impact. Very lucky that impact was not a bit further south or damage could have been much worse.
In the event local weather was OK during the day but the wind picked up in the evening with force 7 again forecast tomorrow.
Monday 14th August
Wind increased during the night and really started to blow around breakfast time. Added a second spring and checked all lines and fenders. Remain on board to clean up and do some reading.
Heavy rain and winds gusting to 32 knots (F7) by 15:00 at which time I check the moorings again. Constant surging has caused two fenders to work clear allowing the hull to rub directly on the pontoon. Some scratching but hopefully not too deep as I spotted it fairly quickly. Both large flat fenders are deployed and three tube fenders secured diagonally which seems to solve the problem.
A lot of boats are having the same problem and several of us assit by pushing fenders back on unoccupied boats. One boat loses a genoa as it unfurls and is shredded in the wind. Kiriwina is listing noticably to port under the force of the wind. Very glad I am not out at sea today.
Our piece of breakwater now marked with red antifouling.
Wallet marking our contact point - taken at low water.
Breakwater almost submerged as tide rises
From another angle.
At high water. Poles marking entry at top of picture.
Looking away from the marina.
Shows entry marker pole and last channel buoy.
Aerial view of Roompot.
Kiriwina pushed hard onto the pontoon finger by the wind.
Note wind has pushed adjacent boat off her finger.
Kiriwina heeled over on her berth. Note chop on the water whipped up over a fetch
of only 300-400 yards.
It's raining out there!