Weekend photos

Back of Irelands Eye yesterday

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Yayyyyy!!

neris wrote: »

Where was this (middle pic) taken?. Thanks

Second photo in particular is great, really strange seeing that view.

neris wrote: »

Not really sailing or a photo but related to my last post. Best watched in a larger screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziPKzX4QCi0

where was that ? an irish skippy lol

After deciding not to risk the Mizzen in the dark and heavy rain/mist, I wound up doing the trip anyway in poor viz and rain the next day. After not a lot of fun threading my way out of Baltimore through the islands in white muck. I decided to try South through Gascanane Sound to open sea hoping an offshore route might leave the rain or at least the heavy mist behind on land and give me a chance to see some whales or dolphins and safer passage.

No such luck, had to really concentrate on the GPS all the way and it's amazing how difficult it is to steer a straight course on GPS only with zero visual reference.

See how much of Mizzen I could see from about 100m off when I carefully nosed in out of the mist just for a break from the monotonous white mist whihc had eased just a little as I approached.

The real cautionary reminder- it's not the first time I've travelled in viz like this- is how your brain says," you've seen nothing you can look at the plotter for a while, without factoring in you can see only a few seconds ahead instead of a few miles.
It's hard but you have to keep reminding yourself someone could be coming the other way so collision avoidance opportunities are tiny even when you're concentrating.
It's safer to stop to reset waypoints or do anything that takes your eyes off the water and to not spend too much time concentrating on the GPS course indicator or compass heading at the expense of time searching ahead!

I use to record alot of sailing when i was younger in the mid 90s and recorded Nationwide on rte in 1996 which was on cork week. Only found the video recently, short clip here, quality isnt great as its a video of a video from a vcr which hasnt been used in donkeys years. there is sound but its a bit low

That rig on Rosie was a fractional 12 months earlier. I got a look around mustang on the marina when she came to howth 1st in 95 and as 14yo she was unreal and like something from the future compared to the other boats that were racing in her class that weekend.

neris wrote: »

I use to record alot of sailing when i was younger in the mid 90s and recorded Nationwide on rte in 1996 which was on cork week. Only found the video recently, short clip here, quality isnt great as its a video of a video from a vcr which hasnt been used in donkeys years. there is sound but its a bit low

I remember that Cork week, Jim put the lads on' orange juice only' after the first night as they were all hanging the second morning...

Love the kite peel on Sorcery!

I did my 1 and only Cork week in 98 on the quarter tonner and we had great craic, it was quite windy all week.

Tape Drive sails looked amazing when they first started showing up!!

I knew a guy that crewed/looked after Sally (I worked with him in the INSS in Dun Laoghaire), and got to go for a spin in her 1 day (sadly though it was just motoring around the marina in Howth).