Storm Floris

Storm Floris is now past us and we have survived it 😄

Last night I wrote on Mastodon:

Storm Floris is approaching us. It won't be for long and it won't be very bad (max 52mph for a couple of hours Monday am). However, now that we are living on the boat it feels pretty different.
In the past we would have simply not come to the boat or gone home to avoid winds over about 45mph, we would have said "we won't make progress, it will be uncomfortable".
Now we are here and staying, nowhere else to go.
Which I guess is our future for 5 years.
Of course it will all change again once we are afloat as then we will often need to move anchorage when storms approach.

As predicted, the worst was from about 7am to 11am, with plenty of rain and wind that reached (probably) just above 50mph—nothing like as bad as for many other people. We didn't sleep through it all, but have rested before and since.

This is an ongoing challenge of a boat refit in a boatyard on Anglesey that juts out into the Menai Straits, which is one of the windiest places in the UK, and we know our progress is going to be interrupted multiple times by strong winds. The wind almost always funnels up or down the Menai Straits due to the high ground on each side. Any wind that has some south in it is not as bad as it comes towards the bow (front) of our boat (in it's current position). Anything with north in the direction blows at our stern (back of the boat), which means it blows straight into the open back of our wheelhouse.