B'Bugia 23rd September 2009

[shanook]

anyone heard anything about B,Bugia as I am getting bad news from there?

[skip]

East to SE Force 7 tonight. Not sure of actual conditions in the harbours/bays first hand

[alfadelta]

from the times of malta online:

Today's wind whipped up rough seas in Birzebbuga and, to a lesser extent, Marsaxlokk. Two cabin cruisers broke their moorings in Birzebbuga. One ended up on the rocks and the other on the sandy beach. A smaller boat was smashed by the waves and quite a number of boats were quickly hauled ashore by their owners.

[camkev]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090923/local/boats-damaged-in-birzebbuga

[Tatanka]

Same here in Marsascala rough seas so far 1 x 20ft Fishing boat broke off the the mooring and luckily the owner was at the promanade and managed to get on the vessel via a tender in time before it hit the shore. There is quite allot of boats still in the sea , hopefully nothing too dramatic in the morning. Taken mine out this morning , Looks like end of boat fishing season for me   

[bigboy]

What a blessing to be moored @ msida

[camkev]

Anyone wants to buy my pontoon??

[alfadelta]

Veru Big, Just went down to msida to check the ropes (which Camkev tied :-) ), and the boat doat are not moving 1cm

[shanook]

with this wind even bugibba is ok, but that doesnt mean that bugibba is a good harbour. You have to see bugibba in NE winds

[Tatanka]

Rub it in Big boy and Camkev   Will just have to try a go out with big boy on a share cost obviously   It is good to see that some of us have their minds at rest and can still keep their boats in the sea.

[bigboy]

My mind is at rest for sure The boat is right next to the house hihihihihi

[shanook]

I passed by msida today and its true the boats were OK but the smell of drainage wow...........no wonder one catches so much mulett from there.

[Tatanka]

Nothing too drastic in Marsascala this morning only 3 tender boats were cut off from the moorings 2 ended up under the small bridge & 1 pulled out of the water by people watching yesterday evening. no real big damage was done to any of the 3 tenders.

[Destination Sea]

Shanhook about 14 to 17 cut there mooring. Its the worst wind for B Bugia SE (Xlokk il vant) Even behind the break water there was slight damage to some boats .One broke free and   another slight damage. Its because the one behind it was "tight" on the moor (ma kelliex kalur) and due to the waves it hit the boat in front of it. Not much damage though. The one next to me (I pulled up 2 weeks before when there was the NE 7-8 Marked) outside the break water cut loose and was forced onto the breakwater .not much damage at least.There was damage to other boats ,I heard that one boat  had its z drive picked up apart (tal bobby). Not quite a safe haeven for the SE a B Bugia. Great care should be taken at this time of year.