Windy Malta
Just had to share this video with you all. Mostly our mooring is protected from the majority of the winds we get in Msida, even the North Easters which happen more often in the winter than summer. But, though we are pretty sure we're safe it certainly has not been comfortable on the boat for the past couple of days. Sleeping (or more accurately, not sleeping) with 40 knot wind howling around us outside, and because we are at the end of our dock we really do move around alot.
The mediterranean mooring method of bow or stern into the pontoon works well to protect the boats that are on the inside,(they just get jostled from side to side a bit, being well fendered against each other), but the boats at the end get to move around alot,sometimes we are swung out at about 45 degrees to the pontoon. As the mouth to the harbour is open to the North East, the swells also make their way into the marina, but as I say, we do not feel that we are not safe, but yesterday we had to get off the boat for a few hours, even though we were going to study all day - we were actually feeling a bit seasick. So here's a video of what we saw when we walked around the Sliema waterfront.
Studying is coming along quite well, we are getting a handle on interpolation, extrapalation, and really look forward to putting our new-found (or re-found) knowledge into practice. And I learned yesterday from an old Irish salt what Variation and Deviation really mean, Variation means tickling your lover with a chicken feather, Deviation means using the whole chicken. All this really useful information we are learning.
The mediterranean mooring method of bow or stern into the pontoon works well to protect the boats that are on the inside,(they just get jostled from side to side a bit, being well fendered against each other), but the boats at the end get to move around alot,sometimes we are swung out at about 45 degrees to the pontoon. As the mouth to the harbour is open to the North East, the swells also make their way into the marina, but as I say, we do not feel that we are not safe, but yesterday we had to get off the boat for a few hours, even though we were going to study all day - we were actually feeling a bit seasick. So here's a video of what we saw when we walked around the Sliema waterfront.
Studying is coming along quite well, we are getting a handle on interpolation, extrapalation, and really look forward to putting our new-found (or re-found) knowledge into practice. And I learned yesterday from an old Irish salt what Variation and Deviation really mean, Variation means tickling your lover with a chicken feather, Deviation means using the whole chicken. All this really useful information we are learning.
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Hope to hear from you soon.
Hugs Nick