Boating chit chat thread.

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Zero craic then……

pretty much and alot of clubs rely on the income from bar sales to keep them going aswell.

Jeffs getting a new yacht to support his even bigger new yacht

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-07/jeff-bezos-s-new-superyacht-heralds-roaring-market-for-big-boats?srnd=premium-europe&sref=RN5y10oa

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-long-island-schull-co-cork/3214839


For all the Calves Week veterans, with memories of charging (or floating) up and down Long Island Sound, and scraping the rocks in the channel at the Goat Island end.....


Be a great place to spectate from!

Expensive site, but lovely location.

rje66 wrote: »

Expensive site, but lovely location.

Hmm. Agreed it is totally overpriced, but the location is not great - no privacy, overlooked, a road going past the front door to a busy ferry pier. Probably would have issues with drainage for a septic tank/biomass unit. Serious issues with acceptance of design for a replacement house, permission to demolish, etc.....the list goes on. Dreamers, lots of better (including floating!) stuff out there!

Club haven't clarified to members what the plan is yet. Id say if it goes ahead it'll be club only they won't want visitors in the club and with the season getting back underway can't see much interest from boats across the bay to come over

Mick Tator wrote: »

We always did the Lambay Race but infrequently stayed for drinks in HYC; same for their regatta. It was too much of a slog to get back to DL and for those on swinging moorings the launch service would be finished. (Not saying we didn't open a few on the way home.......)

Its a slog going either way. Spent more time racing from starts in DL last year without setting footing in DL. Opened more then our fair share heading back to howth.

Think lack of boats going across the bay goes both ways which is unfortunate

Don’t see why they can’t invite Other Dublin based boats simply for the race, and instruct them to return to home port once their race is finished…..

So the DL boats head around in the morning (with the tide), do the race and immediately return to DL (again with the tide).

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Don’t see why they can’t invite Other Dublin based boats simply for the race, and instruct them to return to home port once their race is finished…..

So the DL boats head around in the morning (with the tide), do the race and immediately return to DL (again with the tide).

Yep. Was something similar in DL last year for the National regatta.

I’m looking at the boats here and trying to figure out which are the Howth boats…. I know Indian is a Howth boat…. And perhaps Outrajeous?

OSI wrote: »

When it lands in Ireland you'll get an email from the delivery company with an invoice for VAT, Duty and Customs Agent Fee. They'll require you to pay that before they deliver it to you.

oh shizer!!!!

So if purchase price is £375, VAT should be another 23% on top of that, £86.25, then what would I be talking for Duty & Customs Agent Fee?

(its actually coming in at £413.98 on their site (Marine Scene) as their charging £38.99 shipping)..

might be easier to just sail over to Wales to collect it and pay U.K. VAT on it...

I'm thinking Northern Ireland might be the loophole, but I was looking and not a whole lot in the way of chandlers up there...
found Bosun Bobs & Sands, but not a lot in the way of inflatable dinghy offerings..

The Tesla community are not happy………

unkel wrote: »

I'll leave this here, first time I was at Ballacolla

Mick Tator wrote: »

Reading the EV thread the pic is about four years old. Not making excuses for the guy, but with a few dozen Teslas in the country back then it's not the same 'issue' as it would be today.

Yeah, only realised it was a few years ago when there were more Tesla chargers than Tesla’s in the country….

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Meanwhile it looks like Dublin - Dingle is going to be a bit of an upwind slog for the fleet……

The weather in the SW so far this season has been absolutely s#1te, although last week there were a few days of hefty N. Easterlies.

Few heading out to D2D start

Hi all,

In a moment of probable madness late last year - a friend and I purchased a little 14foot Fletcher speedboat with a '92 Yamaha 60 autolube on it, one of those 'seems like a good deal' things..

The trailer has pretty much disintegrated since towing it home so before we either sell the lot as a project or buy a new trailer to use ourselves - we would like to get the boat, particularly the motor looked at.

In typical newbie fashion - we know nothing about boats, or outboards so hoping that someone here might recommend a mechanic who could come take a look at it and either give it a once over - or at worst give us a list of things wrong with it so we can look at our options.

Would anyone be able to recommend someone who could come take a look - Kildare/newbridge area?

Cheers

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Looks like Freya, the line honours leader and biggest boat in the fleet has just retired!!!

Or is it just a blip? I'm waiting on the next ping to see!

Yeah, their back in the eace now it seems!!

Aaaaaand they're going north again!

Something def up there

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Saying their only doing 1kt, and off a fairly strong breeze…..

Something up alright…

I'm hearing they rescued a kitesurfer, transferring to lifeboat, and will resume racing :eek:

Afloat just ran the story..

https://www.facebook.com/100063595212236/posts/179440647519108/?d=n

fergal.b wrote: »

You might get lost in here with all the chit chat maybe start a new topic in the forum if you need to. My advice to you would be to get rid of the lot if you do not know what you are doing and look for a good running boat if you still want one. If the trailer was let to go to pieces I'm sure the rest of the boat and engine has also, for a mechanic to work on it you could be looking at 60=80 euros an hour on top of the cost of a water pump kit, new oil top and bottom, carb kit and so on then you have the price of a trailer and any boat repairs $$$$$$$:eek:$$$$$$$





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hi Fergal, thanks for the reply, wasn't sure if this was the best spot, wasn't sure I warranted a thread - will look at starting one up

I should have given a little more detail in my initial post, the boat was stored in a shed for most of its life, but the trailer was left outside so its in a much worse state of repair - thankfully, the transom on the boat 'appears' to be solid but haven't taken the motor off or anything to do a detailed investigation.

The motor does run, we put an impeller, new 2t oil & new spark plugs in it before we started it up (it had been sitting for 4-5 years in the last guy's shed)

We have had it in water, briefly, it floats (yay ) and the motor does run and engage in forward and reverse, but she doesn't go particularly fast or get on the plane, she did get onto the plane at one point but it was short lived and unexplained - it has manual trim which appears to be damaged so not sure if this is the cause of the lack of speed or something else.

Would be happy to pay decent money for someones services - even just to tell us if it's a go-er or a scrapper, we don't really want to sell it without a decent understanding of it's condition to be honest, wouldn't really feel comfortable pricing it or letting it on to someone without knowing true details of it. (probably should have applied that logic when buying - but them's the breaks :pac:)

It would be rude not to post a photo I guess:

Chandlery shops usually sell 'log books', just all there are are simply nice note books with 'logbook' printed on them...

Just get yourself a nice diary style hard cover notebook that you like..

I use something like this, though a much cheaper version... I think I picked it one time I visited the office..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leitz-Notebook-Squared-Bookmarks-Complete/dp/B00DNTQD0G/ref=sr_1_39?dchild=1&keywords=hard+cover+note+book&qid=1623330592&sr=8-39

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sailing-Log-Book-Everything-Excursions/dp/B08ZD6TGLF/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=sailing+log+book&qid=1623330706&sr=8-7


this one actually looks quite good, and fairly cheap;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08N3R7JTT/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B08N3R7JTTp13NParams&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExVUVESUlSQ0pCVUw0JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTMxMzQ5MzU4VU1VU0kxU0hQQSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwOTc1NjgyNTdIMTVaUE02VEJNJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfZGV0YWlsJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==