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Boating chit chat thread.

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  • #2492
    Mick Tator
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    I'd maintain that checking on a boat is an 'essential' service, particularly if you have a dehumidifier installed.

    Ireland is not like Sweden, a country where the vast majority can be trusted to do the reasonable/safe thing, hence the need for often daft rules in Ireland. I’ve remained in our holiday home since last March, made just a couple of brief trips to Dublin. In my rural Local Electoral Area we had <5 cases up to September. In the last 14 days we have 48, all associated with students going to/from uni. That number brings us to 191 cases per 100k which is almost double the per capita figure for Dun Laoghaire which is 103 per 100k.

    Just cry 'mental health' and you'll be OK, no politician would dare take on that topic!


  • #2493
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    An interesting project to someone with experience and the ability to open their wallet...!

    https://www.apolloduck.ie/boat/motor-boats-classic/262147

    No connection, just caught my eye.


  • #2494
    W1ll1s
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭W1ll1s


    Mick Tator wrote: »

    Ireland is not like Sweden, a country where the vast majority can be trusted to do the reasonable/safe thing, hence the need for often daft rules in Ireland.


    Interesting point - Daft Rules for Daft People ;)


  • #2495
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    An interesting project to someone with experience and the ability to open their wallet...!

    https://www.apolloduck.ie/boat/motor-boats-classic/262147

    No connection, just caught my eye.

    Only spotted that myself last night while looking for something else. A project for someone with time, money and plenty of patience


  • #2496
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I used to always see her bobbing up and down the river years ago taking the soundings..


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  • #2497
    10pennymixup
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭10pennymixup


    :(
    Tabnabs wrote: »
    An interesting project to someone with experience and the ability to open their wallet...!

    https://www.apolloduck.ie/boat/motor-boats-classic/262147

    No connection, just caught my eye.

    I thought of sending a PM to Fergal when I saw the ad yesterday.

    My missus says I've enough boats :(


  • #2498
    Conchir
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭Conchir


    Damn, she's a beaut.


  • #2499
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    10pennymixup wrote: »
    :(

    I thought of sending a PM to Fergal when I saw the ad yesterday.

    My missus says I've enough boats :(


    I looked at her about 10 years ago in Malahide marina they were asking a lot of money for her back then so I passed :)





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  • #2500
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    fergal.b wrote: »
    I looked at her about 10 years ago in Malahide marina they were asking a lot of money for her back then so I passed :)
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    Nows your chance ;);)


  • #2501
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,733 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    what with Covid and the morale of the country at a very low point, I firmly believe that it is in the interest of the wellbeing of the people of Ireland, that Fergal buys and refurbishes this boat?

    Are you a patriot, Fergal??:D


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  • #2502
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,766 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    what with Covid and the morale of the country at a very low point, I firmly believe that it is in the interest of the wellbeing of the people of Ireland, that Fergal buys and refurbishes this boat?

    Are you a patriot, Fergal??:D

    I'd go so far as to say we should set up a go fund me for it, anything to make it happen :D:D


  • #2503
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Having seen that boat on the river many times over the years, I would second that thought. She looks majestic when steaming along....


  • #2504
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Not sure how true it is but I hear Howth Yacht Club will provide travel authorisation letters to members who live outside 5km of the club to allow them to check their boats. This is permitted within the current L5 restrictions.




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  • #2505
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Not sure how true it is but I hear Howth Yacht Club will provide travel authorisation letters to members who live outside 5km of the club to allow them to check their boats. This is permitted within the current L5 restrictions.

    It's true. Under some maritime thing in the regs checking vessels is permitted


  • #2506
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    neris wrote: »
    It's true. Under some maritime thing in the regs checking vessels is permitted

    If it's a "maritime thing" I wonder will it cover inland boats :rolleyes:




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  • #2507
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I travelled 10km yesterday to check on the boat, so this is good news......


  • #2508
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,958 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Tell then you are going to check on the da mammy to make sure she's OK and you'll be sent on your way, once the boat is called "da mammy" it's kind of OK


  • #2509
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    This is what was told
    If you live more than 5km from the marina the COVID L5 restrictions permit access to your boat under the Governments requirements for the ‘normal operation of ports and harbours’. If you contact the Office we will provide you with an authorisation letter to carry in case you are stopped at a checkpoint. To date the Coast Guard have not issued any notice regarding putting to sea so single handed, socially distant and/or bubble sailing is permitted.


  • #2510
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    So If I'm reading that right, not only I can go and check on the boat (despite living 10km away), but we can all go as a family, and go out for a sail??


  • #2511
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    This is a lockdown in name only, I've seen no checkpoints, there are no Garda patrols breaking up groups of teenagers or pensioners socialising outside. Travel to your boat, do what needs to be done, wear a mask if you feel it's safer and stand well back from other people. Personal responsibility will do far more to keep you safe than a few well meaning Government guidelines.


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  • #2512
    Alkers
    Registered Users Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Alkers


    neris wrote: »
    This is what was told

    I dont think the normal operation of ports and harbours is intended to extend to recreational boating, I'm surprised the yacht club are issuing these letters.

    I don't think you'd have any troubles with a gsrda though in any case


  • #2513
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Alkers wrote: »
    I dont think the normal operation of ports and harbours is intended to extend to recreational boating, I'm surprised the yacht club are issuing these letters.

    I don't think you'd have any troubles with a gsrda though in any case

    As Tabnabs said above its a lockdown in name only.


  • #2514
    JamesM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭JamesM


    Based in Dublin, I felt that we had to secure the boat in Mountshannon for the winter. The cover needed to be put on, the dehumidifier set up and bedding taken home. Cushions are left on the boat, because the dehumidifier really works well and keeps everything dry.
    We filled up with fuel, brought lunch and headed off today knowing that we had a full tank and would have no contact with anyone from the time we left to the time we returned.
    Half way down the Naas Road, we came upon the first checkpoint, but were not stopped - they were talking to someone else. At Birdhill, heading for Killaloe, we had been warned of a checkpoint, so we headed back towards Nenagh on the old Dublin Road and cut into Killaloe (Ballina) close to the town. Spent a few hours in Mountshannon, got all jobs done and headed home just after 2.00. Feeling safe we headed the shortest way to the motorway from Killaloe. The flashing blue lights put a halt to our gallop, a checkpoint. "What is the purpose of your journey ?" I told the truth and added that he was the first person that we had contact with that day. All concerned, he said "What did you do for lunch" "We brought it with us" "Right so, 100% off you go". No more checkpoints on the way home - Except on the other side of the Naas Road at the same point as this morning - a huge tailback for miles back towards Dublin - all those poor people heading home after work :eek: .


  • #2515
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    The huge tailbacks are the infuriating part for people who must travel for work day in day out... There's an app called Waze that shows the checkpoints as well as the congested traffic at said checkpoints, and it looks awful for the folks sitting in it (reminiscent of the days of the M50 toll booth).

    You'd think common sense would prevail and they wouldn't have the checkpoints from 7-9am, and again from 5-7pm Monday-Friday, to allow folks get to and from work in a somewhat normal fashion.

    I was going to ask the marina for a letter similar to what Howth are giving out to berth holders, but I couldn't be ar$ed because I know there won't be a checkpoint on the route... and if there is, I'll just tell them what I was doing...

    On Saturdays we bring junior BoBandy to his Saturday school in Blanchardstown, so it's over and back from Rush in the morning, and again just after lunch (160km trip using M1, M50 & N3), and haven't seen a checkpoint yet...
    I've been down to Artane a few times to drop bits off to my vulnerable mother, and fix a light on her car, and again, not seen a single checkpoint.
    Monday, I went to/from a power station in Ringsend twice, and no checkpoints..

    The weather is looking like it might not be 'terrible' this weekend, so I'd have absolutely no qualms about putting the family in the car, and driving to Malahide, and going for a little sail - we'd have zero contact with anybody.


  • #2516
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,958 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    i'm confused it's a law or a guideline can they turn you back?

    The caretaker government we had back in March had clear messages they new one is puer useless.

    If you come to a checkpoint and are on your own in the car just say you are going to check on your mother they'll wave you on.


  • #2517
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,865 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    spaceHopper wrote: »
    If you come to a checkpoint and are on your own in the car just say you are going to check on your mother they'll wave you on.

    or going to visit a grave....


  • #2518
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,958 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    or going to visit a grave....

    Can I have the kids in the car on the way to visit Santa for that one

    Maybe not, could you imagine if they put two and two together and thought he was dead


  • #2519
    Mick Tator
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    A weird story on BBC about orcas chewing rudders


  • #2520
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Just incase you think I'm not doing any boat projects in lockdown :) here is what I am working on https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058131091





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  • #2521
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,766 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The attrition is starting in earnest in the Vendée Globe..... one dismasting last week, Alex Thompson retired with a broken rudder having fixed some fairly serious hull damage a few days ago, and now Escoffier in 3rd place abandoned ship this afternoon and is about to be rescued by another competitor from his liferaft......


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