Boating chit chat thread.

https://afloat.ie/blogs/sailing-saturday-with-wm-nixon/item/62951-royal-irish-yacht-club-puts-head-above-parapet-for-admiral-s-cup-revival

RIYC making a tilt at next year's Admiral's Cup!

I didn't know of this award, but if I had I'd have added my voice to the chorus... I couldn't think of a more deserving recipient!

Congrats! 👏👏

It's a bit of a health & safety gone mad report from that article.

I know nobody involved. I fully agree MOB exercises should be a regular event.The MCIB report makes very sad reading, peppered with trite platitudes and cliches. Sadly its overall tone, instead of helping, drives another wedge between the MCIB and the sailing community. It shows the ignorance of an investigator not just of what happens on the bow of a racing yacht, but on yacht racing in general. Tethers are deadly, you are much more likely to trip and fall overboard wearing one. (See comments on them & recoveries in the 1979 Fastnet report.) The yacht JB was close to a lee shore when a crew slips and is partly in the water. The skipper makes a call that the priority is to recover the bowman. Forty seconds laterthe boat went on the rocks. The investigator makes a song an dance about not dropping the main - how the f was the yacht to get off the lee shore with a sail on its prop? Pitiable reading, annoying to think that its writer is a senior civil servant drawing >100k a year and will get a pension to match. Well done to the skipper & crew in recovering the bowman.

Was that Conor McGregor by any chance? as they are now a family of international yachtsmen..

Made a schoolboy error when I launched a few weeks back and I left the power on.. (weekday so was in a hurry to get back to my desk), then went away for 3 weeks so never had the chance to correct my mistake…. Went down on Saturday to give her decks/cockpit a power wash and realised the batteries were flat…. So brought down a trickle charger yesterday to see if I could get a pulse from them again but it wasn't looking good, so I dispatched my better half to Halfords to pick up one of those booster engine starters…. hooked it up and she came to life, and the engine fired on the button…. those boosters are great bits of kit…

Now for some good weather this bank holiday weekend to hopefully catch one of the 2 airshows that are happening.. Saturday and a spin down to Bray looks the better option.

Yeah I'm ashamed to say that yesterday was my first spin of the season too, and I literally just left Malahide and went out around the safe water mark and came back in, as I just wanted to run the engine under load for an hour or so to get a bit of charge back into the batteries…

You're out of Greystones aren't you? so it's a handy enough spin for you…. I'd be looking at at least 3 hours each way to get there but thankfully would have the tides with me both ways…

Do you know roughly what the depth is where they keep the spectator boats? Looking on the charts I see around 20m? as I only have a combined 30m of chain/rode… so not sure anchoring will be an option for me unless it's fairly calm…

If you have lead batteries, they are likely damaged from being discharged fully and left. Keep an eye on them for the winter.

When I put the Lidl trickle charger on the circuit it was showing around 5.2V

After jumping the engine, I ran it for a good hour and when I came back in the batteries were reading about 12V (after I stopped the engine), so I think I may have caught it ontime…

They wouldn't have depleted immediately, so I'm hoping they lasted a week or 2 before going flat, and then hopefully they weren't sitting in that state for too long… maybe 1-2 weeks

There's a culture of violence fostered and encouraged in club racing! When acts of violence on the course routinely go unpunished and when successful county sailors regularly avoid jail for violent assaults, what do people expect?

😂😂😂

Although, all jokes aside, it was a very violent and vicious assault. I hope the victim can recover.

Remember folks, violent psychopaths come from all walks of life!

Think I've only anchored 3-4 times over the last 6 years, so definitely not worth the hassle/cost of installing a windlass in my use case… and on those previous occasions, I was in no more than 3-4m of water, on relatively calm days so I'd already have probably half my 10m of chain on board before the anchor came off the bottom… whereas on Saturday, I was hauling all 10m of chain and the anchor itself up, and I think the anchor (CQR) was fairly well dug in as it took a fair bit of effort to 'pop' it free.. I was certainly feeling it in my hamstrings on Sunday!!!