Boating chit chat thread.

Been following a thread over on sailing anarchy about it and some of the crap coming out from local vested interests and media is amazing regarding numbers of bed nights, visitors, superyachts and tourist euros. We dont have the facilities to host the AC boats never mind all these magical superyachts and visitors if they turn up. The organisers/defenders would also probably need to be looking at a new class of boat just to cope with the waters off cork which are not as protected as Auckland. Covney seems to be a big force pushing this aswell and after his recent behaviour I could see this being used as a political football by sections of the left

Another issue I have is that this event was about the prestige of winning the cup and bringing it home to the winners local port/city/club but its now like every other big sporting event and just goes to the highest bidder

Once they have manual coffee grinders and wire jib sheets why not

Agree 100%.

Either falling off the foils, or capsizing, was the height of the excitement to be hoped for.

After the first couple of races, literally the first boat across the start line was almost guaranteed the win. Drag racing is all it was.

Flying Fifteens or squibs are probably closer to 12M sailing then the foilers but would be just as boring to watch ploding around the course

Looks like that is the end of that...

It almost half looks like the AC are giving the extension to allow us to get our sh1t in order to decide if we want to do it or not…

you’d imagine a Europe based AC would be the best option for maximum TV audiences = ad revenue etc….

Podium finish for Tom Dolan in the last leg of the Figaro, and 15th overall - great result for him! Nice interview with him on Seascapes this evening.

That solo offshore stuff is kind of mad, can't really get my head around it at all - absolute hats off to them!!

Haven't been watching this current series, though they are all recording on series link, so I love to binge watch a few of them in 1 go...

Rosslare featured in one of my favourite episodes though a few years ago, the Storm Ophelia episode, when they had to rescue the lads delivering the Dehler 34 to Ireland...

Dun Laoghaire are on it next week I think

Just got sent these!!!

Jelly Baby on the rocks in Cork.

Raced against them at few irc & j109 events and was a good boat with a good young crew. Sorry to see that but glad everyone's OK. Boats can be replaced

I’ve seen the video, she broached under main & Genoa only!!!, and broached into the rocks!!

Rudders banjaxed and bouncing on the keel can't have been good internally. Looks from the boatyard video like a good bit of water got inside too

That was a bit of a surprise alright.

Although at one stage Skorpios was doing 5kts in a very odd direction coming down the westerly side of the course, I wonder did they have a problem of some sort?

But Comanche led most of the way on the water - great race by them.

Judging by the rust mark on the keel I'd say it isn't the first time she's taken a knock. Hopefully its fully restored

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Bm4ZM8T5NE0/s/767/I0000Bm4ZM8T5NE0.jpg

20 pages on a minor incident talk about trying to make yourself as a govt agency seem very important

It’s an abject lesson of what can happen to any skipper after an ‘event’. A jobsworth will shaft you to retain his/her daily crust. There was a smallcraft warning in place when the kayakers went out. Regardless of sea/local conditions the organiser left herself open to stick and a baying mob should s#1t happen, so it was the wrong call to depart with a group that contained novices. The rescue of the panicking by the Bullock fishermen seemed essential and timely but the MCIB report on the rest seemed very overblown. I’d guess that the kayak operator is on the receiving end of suits for damages and her correspondence was written by her legal representatives, hence words like 'otiose', 'specious' and 'grotesque' and the deny, refute, denigrate responses. The MCIB is being careful, their report is overwritten with a lot of pedantic twaddle that any seafarer would see through. (For e.g. most of us prefer Windguru over Met.ie.)

From a PR perspective it’s rather like the HSE after Covid - you dare ’t criticise it after Covid but the fact remains that the organisation is a dog and many members not fit for purpose. I dislike criticising the ICG ‘en masse’ but I’ve seen some in action at a couple of rescues and would not be a fan.

(And what about personal responsibility? Were you departing for your first parachute jump and there was a wind warning in force, would you go up?)

It’s a matter of outlook. Most people look for answers. Lawyers are trained not to do that, instead they are programmed to look for questions. Understand that and you know how to put up with them!

Great result here for Finn Lynch in the Laser Standard

Drone sails into a hurricane and gets stunning footage. I can only imagine what the sound would have been like.....

https://gizmodo.com/drone-sails-into-category-4-hurricane-sends-back-incre-1848234025

Was watching a thing last week on Superyachts on More4. They had owners, designers and brokers in it and the highight of the programme was the Monaco boat show with one of the owners looking to get a new boat built. The designer was saying that having the biggest boat isnt always the best because alot of the docks in the Carbbean and South of France can only take boats up to 50 meters and that people/owners/egos who want to be seen at parties and around town want to be in port and not out at sea on the biggest boat bobbing around where they cant be seen

Unfortunately none of the boats featured had a mast between them and most of the owners featured probably wouldnt know a jib from a genekar if you asked them. There was one owner who is a prominent yachtie but they were showing his motor yacht/gin palace where his dogs had pissed all over the good carpet

Caribbean 600 started yesterday. Skorpios leading Comanche at the front according to Yellow Brick

I can barely remember them (they were retired just after I started sailing) but I don't think the DB24s were gaff-rigged?

Maybe they were in their early days?

I also don't remember their booms being that long, nor the twin headsails (again, maybe from an earlier era)