A sailor who lives on a yacht in Portsmouth said he was up all night listening to the howling winds of Storm Darragh and is "just riding out on coffee at the moment".
Ed Coll, 29, told the PA news agency he has been living on a yacht in a marina in the city since January after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and decided to follow his dream of living on a boat.
He has since recovered from cancer and has been documenting his experience living on the yacht on his TikTok @sailing.optimist for more than 5,000 followers.
"My parents' boat is four boats down from me, so I was going over there in the night to see if their boat was OK," he said.
Mr. Coll has been filming his experience grappling with Storm Darragh, with one of his videos showing him preparing ahead of the storm gaining more than 1.2 million views.
"I heard this massive bang this morning and I was like, what on earth was that, and their dinghy had flown off of the front of their boat onto the pontoon and wedged down the side of the boat," he said.
Next year, Mr. Coll is setting off on his second circumnavigation of the world.
"There's a few boats in the marina where the covers have ripped. It's just one of those annoying things. There's nothing you can really do."
Ahead of the storm, he prepared for incoming winds by buying water and wine, and by laying down towels because his boat's hatches are leaky and were "dripping all night".
"At maybe 11pm I tried to go to bed and by that point, the storm hadn't really come; it was maybe 30mph winds, and then it started progressively getting worse," he said.
"I probably had about an hour and a half of sleep and I think I might have just dozed off around like 5am, then my grandad decided to call me at 6am to make sure I was OK."
"To be honest, I thought last night was going to be the worst of it but it's been like it's only just tailing off now so it's been a pretty long morning."
Ed said that he had a passion for boats:
"I'm not looking forward to another sleepless night...the joys of living on a boat."
He added: "I'm not worried about wind...they're under tension quite often...and they can snap." "I've always wanted buy & live aboard then sail round world." "Last year when sick realised needed pursue dreams: sailing!"