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Boating chit chat thread.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    neris wrote: »
    Yeah was the Clontarf regatta that was on. The helicopter was flying around poolbeg chimneys/sandymount when we were leaving about 3ish but an article on afloat said they were training and then got called over to howth to a cliff rescue.
    The heli may also have been assisting over at DL - one of our ribs said that there were CG and divers outside the East Pier, presumably looking for that missing lady. Heli was coming and going the whole time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭The_Pete_Fella


    neris wrote: »
    Anyone hear anything about a boat sinking off clontarf or in the bay on saturday. Over heard parts of a conversation yesterday but didnt know the people to ask them

    when we were returning to poolbeg on saturday evening we passed three ribs trying to right an EBoat that was capsised just east of the alexander basin. is was half submerged (in shallow water) but i thought i heard one of the guys in the club say they got it back afloat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    There is no dignified way of getting into, or out of, a wetsuit. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    There is no dignified way of getting into, or out of, a wetsuit. :o
    Beyond the age of 25 there is no way of looking dignified in a wetsuit!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    There is no dignified way of getting into, or out of, a wetsuit. :o

    Step 1. Insert minor leg (least strong) into wetsuit, pull up to knees
    Step 2. Insert major leg, pull up to knees then to waist.
    Step 3. Insert minor arm pull up to shoulder.
    Step 4. Insert major arm, pull up to shoulder.
    Step 5. Contort onself trying to pull up the zip.
    Step 6. Accept defeat, and ask friend to pull up zip.

    Getting out:
    Step 1. Ask someone to unzip you
    Step 2. remove both arms, peel wetsuit down to waist.
    Step 3.. Remove major leg
    Step 4. Remove minor leg

    Peel wetsuit away in entirety, forever grateful you worse a full swimsuit (if female) or swimming shorts, as opposed to speedos if you are male :)

    I prefer drysuits :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Youtube vid or I call fake!!

    :p

    Stheno wrote: »
    Step 1. Insert minor leg (least strong) into wetsuit, pull up to knees
    Step 2. Insert major leg, pull up to knees then to waist.
    Step 3. Insert minor arm pull up to shoulder.
    Step 4. Insert major arm, pull up to shoulder.
    Step 5. Contort onself trying to pull up the zip.
    Step 6. Accept defeat, and ask friend to pull up zip.

    Getting out:
    Step 1. Ask someone to unzip you
    Step 2. remove both arms, peel wetsuit down to waist.
    Step 3.. Remove major leg
    Step 4. Remove minor leg

    Peel wetsuit away in entirety, forever grateful you worse a full swimsuit (if female) or swimming shorts, as opposed to speedos if you are male :)

    I prefer drysuits :)


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Steve wrote: »
    Youtube vid or I call fake!!

    :p

    Drysuits, Steve, drysuits :D

    Step in, zip up and away you go :)

    No appalling discoveries of unhideable flab as well :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Stheno wrote: »
    Drysuits, Steve, drysuits :D

    Step in, zip up and away you go :)

    No appalling discoveries of unhideable flab as well :D

    Just sayin...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Stheno wrote: »
    Step 1. Insert minor leg (least strong) into wetsuit, pull up to knees
    Step 2. Insert major leg, pull up to knees then to waist.
    Step 3. Insert minor arm pull up to shoulder.
    Step 4. Insert major arm, pull up to shoulder.
    Step 5. Contort onself trying to pull up the zip.
    Step 6. Accept defeat, and ask friend to pull up zip.

    Getting out:
    Step 1. Ask someone to unzip you
    Step 2. remove both arms, peel wetsuit down to waist.
    Step 3.. Remove major leg
    Step 4. Remove minor leg

    Peel wetsuit away in entirety, forever grateful you worse a full swimsuit (if female) or swimming shorts, as opposed to speedos if you are male :)

    I prefer drysuits :)

    Just go commando the shorts ride up, best way is buy a camper van and get changed in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Dinghy supplies in Sutton are having a big sale as they are closing down for refurbishment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    neris wrote: »
    Dinghy supplies in Sutton are having a big sale as they are closing down for refurbishment
    Oh???

    Do they do lifejackets? I'm going to have to invest in a new one soon, could be very good timing!

    ETA - solved that one for myself by ringing them - they've none left :mad: Oh well.

    Might take a spin out in the next day or two all the same and see if there's any bargains to be had.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    neris wrote: »
    Dinghy supplies in Sutton are having a big sale as they are closing down for refurbishment

    Thanks for that, need some new bottoms myself.

    Glad to hear it's only a refurbishment, have a lot of time for Pat. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Steve wrote: »
    have a lot of time for Pat. :)

    Just saw on the hyc website now that Olivia his wife died today. Dont think she,d been well for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    neris wrote: »
    Just saw on the hyc website now that Olivia his wife died today. Dont think she,d been well for a while.
    Ah no, that's so sad. I didn't know her but met her once or twice in HYC. Lovely lady.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Anyone else following the Fastnet? 11 boats Irish-owned/interest, with a few other ISORA regulars.

    The tracker makes for great viewing, and a lesson in the power of the tide...... practically the entire fleet parked up off Portland Bill last night, with more than a few doing loop-the-loops, and the half of the fleet that didn't make the next tidal gate now parked up off Start Point/Salcombe.

    I don't envy them!

    http://yb.tl/fastnet2015


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭The_Pete_Fella


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Anyone else following the Fastnet? 11 boats Irish-owned/interest, with a few other ISORA regulars.

    The tracker makes for great viewing, and a lesson in the power of the tide...... practically the entire fleet parked up off Portland Bill last night, with more than a few doing loop-the-loops, and the half of the fleet that didn't make the next tidal gate now parked up off Start Point/Salcombe.

    I don't envy them!

    http://yb.tl/fastnet2015

    Yeah, it hasn't been the plainest of sailing for all involved.

    Quick update from wakey wakey based out of poolbeg:

    "Yes that was some start. We were doing OK but then a ship came through and we had to motor out of the way. So we then had to sail back to where we were before the ship came and continue. About 25 mins lost which is so hard to catch up. Wakey Wakey late again - familiar feel to that one.
    So we took the northern route as the southern one would be just a game of catch up. We had very little breeze and about 11pm we had to drop the anchor as we were going backwards in the tide. The anchor got caught around the keel and it took over an hour to free it. So we kept going backwards until we got it cleared.
    Then the code 0 got messed up and that took 2 hours to fix so we lost more time there and all this in the pitch dark. I thought the Portland Bill would never stop flashing at us...
    So we are playing the usual Wakey Wakey game of catch up but that's our favourite game anyway.
    More when we get some coverage later. The weather is beautiful and conditions are super and it is a long race so anything can happen."

    God love them. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    :o

    Jaysus, going to be a long week for them if their luck (and the tide) doesn't turn!
    Yeah, it hasn't been the plainest of sailing for all involved.

    Quick update from wakey wakey based out of poolbeg:

    "Yes that was some start. We were doing OK but then a ship came through and we had to motor out of the way. So we then had to sail back to where we were before the ship came and continue. About 25 mins lost which is so hard to catch up. Wakey Wakey late again - familiar feel to that one.
    So we took the northern route as the southern one would be just a game of catch up. We had very little breeze and about 11pm we had to drop the anchor as we were going backwards in the tide. The anchor got caught around the keel and it took over an hour to free it. So we kept going backwards until we got it cleared.
    Then the code 0 got messed up and that took 2 hours to fix so we lost more time there and all this in the pitch dark. I thought the Portland Bill would never stop flashing at us...
    So we are playing the usual Wakey Wakey game of catch up but that's our favourite game anyway.
    More when we get some coverage later. The weather is beautiful and conditions are super and it is a long race so anything can happen."

    God love them. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Is that the J109 from down there?

    Saw there was a boat called Lucky that wasnt having much luck hitting the rocks and the race barely started.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭The_Pete_Fella


    neris wrote: »
    Is that the J109 from down there?

    Saw there was a boat called Lucky that wasnt having much luck hitting the rocks and the race barely started.

    yeah that's the one, they have recovered quite well and are up to 29th overall at 14th in class.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    some nice aerial footage of the one design racing in Howth last night



    (credit at the end of video)


  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭Schindlers Pissed


    Hi guys.....I haven't posted here too often but just have a quick question, does anyone know an Irish stockist of winter cover poles? You know the telescopic poles that hold up a winter cover from to inside to let rain water run off?

    I was being fierce clever the other day and was poking some sticks and stuff away from the prop when half the pole fell in the river!

    I rang Marine Parts Direct but they don't stock any. Thanks.

    Also, does anyone do Bimini Covers that aren't stupid money? I have a Sea Ray Sundancer 240.....thanks for your help. :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Hi guys.....I haven't posted here too often but just have a quick question, does anyone know an Irish stockist of winter cover poles? You know the telescopic poles that hold up a winter cover from to inside to let rain water run off?

    I was being fierce clever the other day and was poking some sticks and stuff away from the prop when half the pole fell in the river!

    I rang Marine Parts Direct but they don't stock any. Thanks.

    Also, does anyone do Bimini Covers that aren't stupid money? I have a Sea Ray Sundancer 240.....thanks for your help. :)


    Marine Parts do Bimini tops from around €160 I was enquiring about them the other day for my boat :)



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    I see the Gorch Fock is in the Bay and Mari Cha III is beating down the East Coast having spent the night off Hawk Cliff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne



    That is one incredible boat. :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    She's for sale, yours for about €8 mill.:)

    A post race round of drinks at the bar for the crew would be expensive though, if you look at this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    She's for sale, yours for about €8 mill.:)

    I'll have to hurry up and get my Competent Crew course out of the way first.
    A post race round of drinks at the bar for the crew would be expensive though, if you look at this

    I think if you are paying 8 million for a boat, buying a round of drinks for the crew wouldn't really be an issue. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    I'll have to hurry up and get my Competent Crew course out of the way first.

    wont need if your buying the boat, you,ll be paying a full time skipper and crew and jetting in and out for an event.

    I prefer Mari Cha 4 myself, more racing and extreme but cruising convertible supose id have to take mari cha 3 if i was offered, beggars, choosers and all that

    Id suggest a book called "Mines bigger" by David Aklan if you want some insight into how the mega wealthy go about getting boats this size designed and built etc. Some of these boats are classed as small ships in America and need crew with relevant shipping qualifications, security, safety etc


  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭ahun


    I always wondered, do these big boats have to run an engine all the time to generate electricity, (warm)water, etc, even when sailing, or how that works?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    ahun wrote: »
    I always wondered, do these big boats have to run an engine all the time to generate electricity, (warm)water, etc, even when sailing, or how that works?

    Yes especially if they have powered winches and canting keels


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Looking at that Bond /Spectre beer advert Fergal posted - it is filmed on Lake Como.

    Some eye candy for Fergal tied up at the opulent Hotel Villa d’Este on that lake.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Looking at that Bond /Spectre beer advert Fergal posted - it is filmed on Lake Como.

    Some eye candy for Fergal tied up at the opulent Hotel Villa d’Este on that lake.

    Wooden boats just look right in a setting like that :) Skerries harbour would be a close second :D



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  • Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭blackwarrior


    Question - is powerboat.ie still active as forum? I signed up last year while looking to purchase a small cruiser. When I tried to login agina this summer, the forum didn't recognise me or my username. And when I tried to set up a new account, my application to join never got a response. Just wondering.

    Also, the good news is that I bought a 2004 Shetland F4 at the end of May in England. In immaculate condition. I've put a new Yamaha 40hp on it. Keeping it around the lower Shannon / Lough Derg, and taking it out of the water this weekend.

    What are the good online communities to join?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Question - is powerboat.ie still active as forum? I signed up last year while looking to purchase a small cruiser. When I tried to login agina this summer, the forum didn't recognise me or my username. And when I tried to set up a new account, my application to join never got a response. Just wondering.

    Also, the good news is that I bought a 2004 Shetland F4 at the end of May in England. In immaculate condition. I've put a new Yamaha 40hp on it. Keeping it around the lower Shannon / Lough Derg, and taking it out of the water this weekend.

    What are the good online communities to join?

    Hi Blackwarrior Powerboat.ie is still up and running but these day's it mostly me talking to myself :D A lot of the guy's from powerboat.ie became good friends so we tend to use Facebook more for arranging meet up's and this page https://www.facebook.com/groups/133673356708207/ Feel free to join in if you want to meet up for a run, a few of the members are also on here so at the moment Boards.ie sailing & Boating is the best place to be if you want to know anything about having fun on the water in Ireland :)

    P.s If you want me to look into your account on powerboat.ie I will ;)




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    one reason you never want to the ome leaning against the boom going downwind

    https://www.facebook.com/sailingaddicts/videos/1124674840895423/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭ezra_


    Helm/Crew don't seem to be that pushed about a man overboard...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    The helm on that boat was asleep, the main was on the point of gybing from inception. I've seen it happen in Dublin Bay, but the crewman caught the shrouds (but still ended in the water due to a chinese gybe). Moral? carry a snapshackle strop that can be used for peeling the spinnaker or tying down the boom.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    ive seen it nearly happen where boats running by the lee into a mark and someones on the boom but as the gybe is nearly about to happen they actually go to crouch down to go under the boom. id rather be in the water then lying unconcious on the deck


  • Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭blackwarrior


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Hi Blackwarrior Powerboat.ie is still up and running but these day's it mostly me talking to myself :D A lot of the guy's from powerboat.ie became good friends so we tend to use Facebook more for arranging meet up's and this page https://www.facebook.com/groups/133673356708207/ Feel free to join in if you want to meet up for a run, a few of the members are also on here so at the moment Boards.ie sailing & Boating is the best place to be if you want to know anything about having fun on the water in Ireland :)

    P.s If you want me to look into your account on powerboat.ie I will ;)




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    Thanks Fergal. I'll send a PM.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 21 PanAC


    Reading through some of the amazing restoration projects here, I'm not quite sure if this is a good place to get some basic enlightenment about small/old boat maintenance!

    I have a small gaffer in Dunlaoghaire that needs lots of TLC. Is there anywhere (maybe a shed/container) where I can access a work-bench and a few tools? I have no access to a garage, garden shed, spare room etc. I'm looking for anywhere I can learn to repair/make a few boat things like wooden blocks or some small wooden bits, Something like a Man-Shed? I'm trying to avoid "Yacht" type prices. Are there any places near Dublin that might run "Boat Building" or repair courses?

    Any advice would be great.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Hi panAC and welcome, there is a Men's shed in Dunlaoghaire it might be worth giving them a shout https://www.facebook.com/dunlaoghairemensshed or maybe you could ask around and see if someone has a garage they could rent to you. The problem with workshops is the insurance wont cover them to let just anyone use their machines.
    Check out "Dun Laoghaire college of further education" I think "Courses 4u" do a boat building and maintenance course there.
    If you need any other help with the boat just ask I'm sure we can help you out.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 21 PanAC


    Thanks Fergal,
    This Winter I started a basic woodwork course with Dun Laoghaire college of further education. They have a great workshop, all the tools benches etc. but no access outside class hours. Great instructor, and I've picked his brains about local paossibilities, but no leads!
    I'll contact the ManShed bunch, I'm sure they have some ideas... Sure there is a great sense of helping here on "Boards" There are thousands of questions I need to ask, and at this stage I don't know what I don't know! (Yet).
    Thanks again.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    I built my boats outside just under a lean to I know of others that use sheets of plastic or a pop up gazebo :) As for tools you can do most jobs with a saw, hammer, screwdriver and sandpaper so don't be too worried about finding a workshop, Iidl have a japanese saw for €9.99 this week it is a very handy and versatile saw,worth the few quid.




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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Tonight Great canal journeys on Channel 4Timothy West and Prunella Scales cruising the Shannon Erne Waterway, should be worth a look.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭copper12


    PanAc
    Argus and the twin’s aldi and lidl; have some good quality tools.
    Maybe not good enough for the tradesman, but good enough for any fellow’ starting even a fairly big project; get insurance, from Argus’ and they will exchange tool without any questions.
    If you saw; the condition that I have brought tools back, and got then replaced, you’d say that fellow has a neck like a giraffe. :eek:


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Tonight Great canal journeys on Channel 4Timothy West and Prunella Scales cruising the Shannon Erne Waterway, should be worth a look.



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    Love this show and watch it every week, first fifteen minutes so far this evening are a fantastic showcase for Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,067 ✭✭✭✭neris


    so channel 4 next Sunday is Million Pound Gin PlacesMega Yachts. Should be depressing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    neris wrote: »
    so channel 4 next Sunday is Million Pound Gin PlacesMega Yachts. Should be depressing.
    Hmmm - interesting!

    I wonder

    a) will there be any sailing yachts featured? There's plenty multi-million-pounders among their numbers. I suspect not.

    and b) will any of those boats I saw in St. Tropez earlier this year feature? There were a few beauties, and a LOT of beasts.

    I'll be tuning in anyway, cheers for the heads up :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Tonight Great canal journeys on Channel 4Timothy West and Prunella Scales cruising the Shannon Erne Waterway, should be worth a look.



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    Oh gawd, I'm not even halfway through this and I'm already nearly in tears!

    I'll have to try to find the rest of the series online somewhere - I had no idea there would be so much more than just canal-tripping to it.

    And as Stheno said, what a wonderful ad for Ireland while they're at it!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Enjoyed that shame they didn't get better weather for it but that's Ireland for you.
    Not sure about next weeks show yet but I'll know on Tuesday ,,,,,, the Euromillions is €110 million so I might just splash out on one :D



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