Ever wished you could join in and compete with the Shipping Forecast? Now this excellent game is available to you. Faster play during good visibility, obviously, and headwinds take the LV equivalent down a notch. And watch out for those South East Iceland loops. Winning move is Dogger.
Shipping areas here.
And so it begins...
Tuj - Starting at
Humber, Northeast 3 or 4. Occasional rain. LV moderate or poor. Home at
Forties.
penelope - Anchors aweigh from
Cromarty, setting a course for home at
North Utsire. Taking advantage of Tuj's favourable winds, North East, & or 8, gusting to 9, Sleet squalls, visibility poor.
A bad start... really awful conditions. At least we'll get there quickly... Software - Sailing on to
Biscay visibility good to moderate, state of sea rough, winds South-Southwest veering South occasionally force 6 or 7 gusting force 9 in squally showers. Home at
Finisterre before supper.
Kim - Setting out at
Viking, winds South 3 or 4, occasionally 5 at first in the West, mainly fair, moderate, with fog patches, so no possibility of a
Perkins transverse until move 3.
Knobbly - Doubling back to
South Utsire, winds South-Easterly 3 or 4, becoming cyclonic, moderate or good and so on and so
Forth.
Rosie - North Severe Gale 9 to Storm 10, Snow Showers, Good but Poor in Showers. Light Icing in
South-East Iceland. Their cakes are brilliant.
penelope - Oh crikey. West-North-West, 8, gusting storm force 10, scudding past
Fingal's Cave in heavy seas, visibility: I don't know, I've got sea water in my eyes. But I think I'm drawn into the
South-East Iceland loop
Software - Moving on to
South-East Iceland, fog with light rain, visibility less than 100 metres, sea state slight.
Tuj -
South-East Iceland, South 5 or 6, 7 later. Moderate or good. Visibility poor.
penelope -
South-East Iceland, All the ones, Hurricane force 11. Visibility poor.
Rosie - Just bumped into
Sandettie Light Vessel, Calm, dense fog, less than 50 metres, 1038, now falling.
nights -
Dogger, East 4 or 5, gusting 6, occasional rain, moderate or poor.
Audience -
*shouts, screams generally goes wild for nights* nights - Oh SHIT. Sorry everyone, didn't read the opening blurb. If it can be reinstated, great, otherwise I hang my head in SHAME.
Simons Mith - Well it is a bit like setting the winning move in a standard MC game to Dollis Hill. Dogger, I ask you.
Rosie - Dogger. I dunno. You could Bank on it. Geddit?
nights - Botheration. How about I come up with an excellent idea for a game and create it?
Kim - Come back, Perkins and Donaldson, all is forgiven.
Software - And we didn't even get to
Channel Light Vessel. Shame.
This is the end of the line. There is no more.