Weekend photos

Running East on the last evening before lockdown. Freezing cold but I did get the very last out of it before hauling out!

Nice sunset looking down Kenmare Bay during the week.

A classic from Cork posted on Ron Holland's instagram a couple of months ago: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDSgqFQgKJe/

Fitted a new Fishfinder during lockdown and needed to launch and test it in case the boat was needed in the off season. Got a brief weather window despite a small craft warning and hauled it down and went out for an hour. Freezing cold and a lot of hassle so took a real effort. But I took the opportunity to do a sweep of outer Dunmanus bay as I hadn't seen any sign of common dolphins and reckoned they're all gone to Cork harbour.
Nothing as expected but biting cold and freezing spray. Then the sun came out and I was running downwind in front of a huge period ocean swell -pic - and all was well in the world.
Then only minutes from the pier....
https://youtu.be/2gp0GDZWuDQ
The weather kicked back in with a vengeance an hour or so later but an unexpected bonus trip in the off season. If you get the chance....

Putting a toe in Sogood's waters this evening. (His post of 29/11)

Managed to get out on May 1st for a first sail of the season, and it was glorious.

The sky at sea looked a lot more pleasant than on land...



Reached up as far as Taylors Rock Cardinal, and then close reached back to Malahide, 6.5-7kts..



Fantastic day for it, and hopefully we get many more.

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Nice evening yesterday for a sail and a few beers on deck after

Better than today anyway :eek::eek::eek::eek:

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Decent looking fleet out in the bay from Dun Laoghaire today, looking over from howth just below the Summit

They look very well trained...:rolleyes:

That was one looooooooong, tricky race (sorry, training session!) yesterday!


I think only 4 or 5 of us stuck it out to the bitter end.

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Was a long day. Think we gave up about 5 after getting around the 2nd virtal mark heading back towards kish and still had to motor 2.5 hours home.

I saw a funny one on facebook from Prof O'Connell where he said they gave up at 11pm after having their 2nd 'should we anchor' discussion... :D

Friday & Saturday morning

Yeah the 1st 2 were on the way in Friday and last was leaving Saturday morning.

Down in Kinsale last week and these lads were around one of the mornings on the way out to the start area.

A lovely weekend for an overnight trip down to Greystones….

Bit of a motor sail down and a motor all the way back unfortunately due to the light winds…. But so what? We got there and back in good time…. Pushed into a bit of a tide from Malahide down as far as The Muglins, but had it with us all the way back yesterday…..

It’s weather like this that makes having a boat worthwhile….

We’re on 2 weeks holidays in 2 weeks, so “praying” for some similar-ish weather then……

We were going to book the Shannon again this year, but got burned (drenched) last year..... so didn't want to book anything (also due our 2nd Covid jabs the 1st week we are off). The plan is to float around, and if we get a half decent weather window, head up or down the coast for a few days...

Saturday morning not a breath of wind in the bay but the incinerator was getting wind high up

Its seemingly a little bit pricy at €4/M, but in general it's a very nice marina. You'll always get a spot there. The morning I went down I called ahead and the marina/harbour master said there'd be no issues getting a space and that he's never turned a boat away yet... The shower block is up next to the office, and has 3 good sized shower rooms. They've added on the additional pontoon fingers since our first visit in 2019, so it's up to its full size now. The harbour walls are fairly high, so there's great shelter once inside.

We've been there twice, and the most recent time, had our 6yo son with us. Its about a 10 minute walk up to the town, but you also have places to eat, as well as coffee & ice cream places very close to the marina. Theres the immediate beach inside the harbour as well as the bigger beach outside, just to the south.

On the recent trip the restaurants were all fairly busy as indoor dining hadn't opened yet and it was during the 'heatwave' we had in July, but we still managed to get a spot at a nice place down at the bottom of the town, the 1st time we were there we ate in a lovely Tapas bar.

We love it, and cant wait to get back again as it's just the right cruising distance for us from Malahide, and Greystones is a lovely little town.

A few from the last week

On the beach in malahide. Duno if its there purposely or broke its mooring

They were painting the bottom last week!!! I