RIBs and small motor-boats constitute a handful of seemingly “fair-weather” local boats struggling to cope with (so far) three days of wet and windy weather, and many of their owners have given up on what they describe as an awful summer.

Conditions here remain atypical (southerlies have prevailed for three weeks where prevailing winds are supposed to be northerly) with heavy rain and 30+ knot winds from the south.

Stronger winds suggest the depression that’s penned us in here may, at last, be on the move. Kite flying on the beach this afternoon, anyone?