Boating chit chat thread.

AndyBoBandy · 26-07-2018 8:28am

According to the tags it’s the Channel version, I didn’t go for the BR2 (about €170 in Kildare Village) as is it would have been a bit too much for what I need (I also have a very old Musto offshore jacket with inbuilt harness if I ever need it) however I preferred the BR2 salopettes to the BR1 as they look like they are more hard wearing.

AndyBoBandy · 26-07-2018 8:56am

Can’t really argue with those prices!!

Steve · 27-07-2018 12:10am

Couple of differences there with the BR1 I use for offshore.

Fleece lined hood. And more adjustable and has a face wrap.

Hand warmer pockets as well as and separate to the zip ones.

neris · 12-08-2018 4:26pm

Death over at cowes week on Friday. Apparently they were getting over 40knots and a hammering

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/cowes-week-sailor-dies-after-friday-racing-incident/

neris · 13-08-2018 3:59pm

https://twitter.com/HowthLifeboat/status/1029018830453006337?s=19

fergal.b · 14-08-2018 11:30am

Yacht on the rocks in Skerries today.

https://afloat.ie/safety/lifeboats/item/40220-family-of-five-rescued-in-skerries-after-yacht-runs-aground

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AndyBoBandy · 14-08-2018 11:33am

Oh dear!

High tide in about 3 hours, so hopefully she can be got off with minimal damage

AndyBoBandy · 14-08-2018 3:02pm

French family of 5 on board, RNLI assisted them after they broke mooring. Hope they got the boat off the rocks ok.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0814/984928-yacht-rescue-skerries/

fergal.b · 14-08-2018 4:17pm

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

French family of 5 on board, RNLI assisted them after they broke mooring. Hope they got the boat off the rocks ok.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0814/984928-yacht-rescue-skerries/

On the harbour wall now so must be ok or she would be a lot further up.

neris · 14-08-2018 9:39pm

Dunno if it's the same boat but yoke like that skerries rescue moored up in howth tonight. No flags on her

neris · 20-08-2018 6:39pm

some ones not happy but ICRA were told last year that it was going to be a disaster.

https://afloat.ie/sail/icra/item/40280-cruiser-champion-john-maybury-gives-his-view-on-galway-bay-icra-nationals-cancellation

I’m angry about the cancellation of the Nationals, to say the least.

The fundamental issue was the venue and whatever politics were involved in bringing it to Galway in the first place. With the lock gates and priority to commercial shipping traffic, there was no way Galway was going to work for the National Championships.

The conditions we got would not have posed much of a problem at any other normal venue, and the championships would have been run.

Steve · 20-08-2018 8:54pm

neris wrote: »

some ones not happy but ICRA were told last year that it was going to be a disaster.

https://afloat.ie/sail/icra/item/40280-cruiser-champion-john-maybury-gives-his-view-on-galway-bay-icra-nationals-cancellation

ICRA has become a joke, internal politics have ruined it and forced out any of the good people that made it work in the past.. Yes, campaign for a west of Ireland venue by all means but maybe poll the members first to see if they will turn up (>500nm delivery for most) before committing.

Madness.

neris · 20-08-2018 9:20pm

They were polled after last year's champs and the majority of boats answered they wouldn't go. Icra wouldn't release the 2017 survey

Steve · 20-08-2018 9:34pm

The need to realise that they as not as popular as they think and go back to combining with real events like DL / Cork / Calves / Sovereigns.

Or they can sit there and wonder why nobody turns up....

neris · 20-08-2018 10:44pm

It runs ok as a stand alone event in Dublin but there's much bigger fleets in Dublin to combine and then the visitors from cork mainly add to that. There's no fleet on the west coast and the north are a disaster. The UK have no problem running major championships out of the one area

neris · 25-08-2018 12:24am

https://twitter.com/HowthLifeboat/status/1029018830453006337?s=19

Howth are due to be shown on it on September 4th.

spaceHopper · 28-08-2018 10:10am

Don't know what the make of the Golden Globe Race, is it a good thing or an ego trip for it's race director. All of them seem to be having big problems with wind vanes and breakages, wouldn't like to go into the Southern Ocean with one. And now one boat does a 360 luckly skipper is ok http://goldengloberace.com/are-wiig-dismasted-400-miles-sw-of-cape-town/

pedroeibar1 · 28-08-2018 11:23am

spaceHopper wrote: »

Don't know what the make of the Golden Globe Race, is it a good thing or an ego trip for it's race director. All of them seem to be having big problems with wind vanes and breakages, wouldn't like to go into the Southern Ocean with one. And now one boat does a 360 luckly skipper is ok http://goldengloberace.com/are-wiig-dismasted-400-miles-sw-of-cape-town/

I like the event because the rules disallow ‘big money’ i.e. shore bases, support vessels, ultra hi-tech, etc. which makes it possible for ordinary sailors (extraordinary?) to compete. Only yachts and equipment similar to that used by Sir R K-J in 1968 are allowed, they must be +/-10metre production hulls designed before 1968(?) and have a full-length keel. It’s an endurance trial for skipper and vessel. How well Wiig coped with the dismasting shows how tough and professional these guys are.

August is a winter month, so the boats have hit a seasonal storm. Wiig’s position is given as 400 miles SW of Cape Town, which is not very far into the westerlies of the southern latitudes (Cape Town is about 34 degS and for reference Cape Horn is 56degS.) His position is a reasonable place to be ‘technically’ because he should be clear by a realistic safety margin of the Agulhas Bank (S. African continental shelf) which runs out about 150 miles south of the Cape. That bank, along with the meeting of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, can result in huge waves.

It’s not for nothing that the Cape of Good Hope was originally known as the 'Cape of Storms'.

neris · 28-08-2018 1:09pm

the 35-45 knot winds dont sound too bad but the 7-8 meter seas the article mentions are the killer

neris · 10-09-2018 12:06pm

Nice photo leading in to the article

:D

https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/sailing-skills/10-classic-pilotage-mistakes-in-navigation-31890

DOCARCH · 10-09-2018 2:40pm

neris wrote: »

Nice photo leading in to the article :D

:eek: I assume that's Howth!

neris · 10-09-2018 4:03pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

:eek: I assume that's Howth!

Yep early 90s. An impala. All the crew walked away grand the owner ended up in hospital. Boat was a right off

Steve · 11-09-2018 1:34am

neris wrote: »

Yep early 90s. An impala. All the crew walked away grand the owner ended up in hospital. Boat was a right off

I remember that but can't remember which one it was. Sailed an Impala there for a good few years, even did offshores (ISORA) in it.. fun times.

Which one was it?

neris · 11-09-2018 7:57am

Dont know the name of the boat but was owned by a guy called Turner had an X yacht after

neris · 11-09-2018 3:30pm

Anyone know if there's an autumn racing series in dun Laoghaire over September & October?

Vexorg · 11-09-2018 4:19pm

The winter series will probably start in October as the current series will not finish until September 29.

Last year it ran from Sunday 5 NOV to Sunday 17th December, so is it follows the same this year it will probably be Sunday 7th Nov to Sunday 16th December, will probably be announced in the next week or so, and if you want to keep an eye on www.dbsc.org for updates.