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Saturday's Look Ahead video

Simon Chiles

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Your sea swell forecasts sound horrific!!!

In my youth I took a sailing boat to Spain and encountered a Force 10 gale in the Bay of Biscay with sea swells like this for four days. At the time I didn't think I was going to make it! Made good time even with the sails reefed to the size of a handkerchief. Try reefing a Jib in these conditions if you want some fun,my crew as such strapped themselves into their bunks and left me to it.
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
In my youth I took a sailing boat to Spain and encountered a Force 10 gale in the Bay of Biscay with sea swells like this for four days. At the time I didn't think I was going to make it! Made good time even with the sails reefed to the size of a handkerchief. Try reefing a Jib in these conditions if you want some fun,my crew as such strapped themselves into their bunks and left me to it.

Been there and got a very similar T shirt, gets a bit hairy when water starts pours in from the cockpit hatch every time you go up top and no fun hanking on or of a foresail when gust are hitting 80mph.

The it gets so windy the seas flatten......
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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