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Weekend photos
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04-09-2012 5:30pm#1Join Date:Posts: 6062
Launched at butlers marina with the help of forum member Moonshadow who also offered me bed & breakfast dinner and drinks on board his cruiser for the weekend
Heading for Drumsna for the night.
Up to Albert lock was stunning.
In Drumsna we met up with a few more members from the powerboat and carrick branch that were running a care day for special needs kids on the saturday.
The skippers meeting went on long into the night
Next morning we set off for Roosky to bring the kids to "waterside adventure centre"
The other way.
There must have been about 20 boats with us by the time we got to Roosky including the famous barge Rambler, all in all a great day was had by the kids and a great day and night was had by us
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Looks fantastic - brings back happy memories of a cruising holiday many years ago out of Carrick.
That boat is just gorgeous, Fergal. How's the new one coming along?
I'm just back from racing in Malta and Sicily - it was just brilliant, but I've more pics of us and the scenery than of boats - and looking forward to the DL Regatta this weekend. Happy days
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »I'm just back from racing in Malta and Sicily - it was just brilliant, ............... Happy days
Do tell, when you get a chance! I'd be tempted by something like that, despite having given up the hurly burly of rounding cans for a more leisurely pace, no worries about organizing crew and the knowledge that I will have a cool beer/tonic/wine in the bilge when I go looking for it!;)
Was it a warm-up for the Middle Sea Race? I didn't think they had qualifiers?
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pedroeibar1 wrote: »Do tell, when you get a chance! I'd be tempted by something like that, despite having given up the hurly burly of rounding cans for a more leisurely pace, no worries about organizing crew and the knowledge that I will have a cool beer/tonic/wine in the bilge when I go looking for it!;)
Was it a warm-up for the Middle Sea Race? I didn't think they had qualifiers?
It's a boat belonging to friends of mine - I did the Round Ireland and a couple of Fastnets on it a few years back, and then they decided to decamp to warmer waters. They did the Middle Sea last year (but had to retire for lack of wind), and are planning to do it again this year. This was just a group of us that had raced on a 31.7 last summer (including one of the the owners of the Med boat, in the absence of his own boat) - they agreed to let us loose on it, and we found a regatta weekend with a passage race to Sicily, two days W/L in Sicily, and another race back to Valletta. It was fiercly competitive stuff! We got pipped into second place on countback by a boat crewed by young fit fellas - we worked out afterwards that the average age on our boat was 52.1 - if theirs hit even 22.1 we'd have been amazed! So we claimed a moral victory among ourselves!
Anyway, it was such a thrill racing on such a competitive boat, in brilliant conditions (25+ knots both W/L days) with all that sunshine! I'm hoping and praying that they decide to do it all again next year 1 -
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pedroeibar1 wrote: »Now THAT is sailing! Congrats on the result, no mean feat in those waters at any age (even if it is averaged!)
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PS Talking Fastnet, did you see that Jim Sheridan has bought the rights to the Grimalkin book and is going to make a film of the 79 race? Bit about it in the Sunday Times.
Thanks!
Bah, the one weekend I don't buy the ST..... I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled for news of it anyway. Last Fastnet I did, Grimalkin was out in the Solent with a big banner on the side wishing all competitors good luck in the race as we headed for the start line. A lovely, heartwarming sight
Fair play to them.
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pedroeibar1 wrote: »
If the film is ever made (not all projects make it that far) it will cause more conflict as I think the remaining crew remain quite divided. The ‘Left for Dead’ book was co-written with a novelist and (years since I read it) my recollection is of some basic errors and an effort to spice things up a bit. Hopefully the film might give a bit from the 'other side', as the crew / book author was rescued as a result of a RAF chopper going out to her at the insistance of those who had taken to the liferaft.
I read/watched footage of the fastnet 79 recently and both sides do appear incredibly divided still
Heidi, that sounds a fab holiday, I spent 14 weeks in Malta last year, and the amount of boats there was unreal.
Great time of year for it too, not yet too hot!
Fergal, congratulations on the launch, well wear, fantastic to see a result like that!0 -
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boldspirit wrote: »My boat is in the back ground of the first picture the one with the punt hanging awkwardly on the davitts.
http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx179/fergalbutler/Care%20day/419299_3985286068804_662699339_n.jpg
It's a nice spot we also had our classic run there this year as Paul Garland is a member of the Powerboat branch in fact a few members have boats there , I'd say the new decking is getting plenty of use with this weather
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My new favorite place to stay.
Heading back from Hodson bay.
I had to pull one of those new plastic boats:) out of the reads and tow it back to the marina, I think my engine was older than the combined age of every one on board
Bed for the night.
Now that's a room with a view.
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Was racing in class 2 but was meant to be in class 3 but lack of crew meant boat didn't go. Most of the pics are from friday when 2 & 3s were on same course. Was one of the better dl regattas weather wise. Very little postponments & wind was consistent even if it was light. Good race officers who didn't send us off on a procession around the bay was a big help
Ah. I was wondering alright how you'd managed to get pics of the front of Quest's (green) spinny - they led almost every race all the way!
It also explains why we're not even a speck in the distance - we missed Friday's sailing :mad:
C3 were incredibly lucky with our courses - on Saturday, other small boats (B21.1's, SB20's etc) only got one out of 3 races on the south side of the bay, and most of the boats on the coastal course had to retire, whereas we had loads of wind on the Sutton course. Bit of a lottery, which we did very well in 0 -
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Heard class 1 had a windward mark set in the channel on saturday & the results stood even though 1 boat protested the whole fleet for not going around one of the nav marks. Hope the weather will be decent for c3 easterns at end of august.
have some pics on pc at home from previous dl regattas that I will try to post tomorrow. Ran across the attached when sailing in italy in april. Large maxi that we couldn't get close to as they just sailed off.
That was the J109s! You'd want to have some neck to enter that protest!!!
We came across this beauty de-rigging outside Valletta Grand Harbour a couple of weeks ago - a thing of dreams
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Hold on fergal, I don't see any macker eels, just some half naked fisherman pretending to catch macker eels! Where's the proof?
When I were lad I'd have half a boat full in 10 mins.
There was a time when you could walk into the water in skerries and catch them as they chased the fry onto the beach. Some people are blaming the big boats from Iceland and the Faroes but I blame the porpoise that was following me around.:D
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It wasn't quite the weekend but here are a few from France - I had a free day on Weds so took the train to Nice, bus to St. Jean Cap Ferrat and did one of my favourite walks – the ‘Sentier du Cap’ – a coastal path built by the French Customs c 1800 that winds its way around Cap Ferrat. A great way to fill a half day or so and always some great yachts to be seen in the area.
This is ‘Eos’, owned by Barry Diller (Mr. Media, has about 150 dotcom cos including Expedia among other assets). If you include her bowsprit she is the biggest sailing yacht in the world. (Others claim that Maltese Falcon is really the biggest)
This beautiful sloop was stopped dead in the water a few moments before the photo – an ill-mannered MY passed unnecessarily close and her wash shook the wind out of the sails.
‘Delma’ is the MY nearest the shore, the yellow funnel is ‘Nero’, a new build modelled on JPMorgan’s ‘Corsair’ – she’s for sale at the moment asking €60 million, (but she is economical
, burning only 450 litres an hour at cruising speed.) The 'water walker' in the foreground is using a jetpack,
Silencio was anchored off the lighthouse on the Villefranche side. Yours for $175k per week (for 10 guests in 5 cabins).
'Far Out' suffering from charter people - no sails on a beautiful sailing day!
I'd no access to AIS and when I got back most craft had moved so I couldn't identify several others I photographed.0 -
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Went out in the GP the other day for a quick sail around Sutton.
Looking great at this stage.
But this was getting closer
And closer
View looking forward
Sea picking up
Eventually this squall hit and I had to put the camera away. We got completely soaked, the rain was the heaviest in a good while and I only had my wetsuit on up to my waist with just a rash vest and my buoyancy aid on above that.
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Buzzy day on the water today started marshalling a swimming race around red island "Skerries"
Big thanks to the RNLI for holding on to my boat while I went to park the car:D
Around to the south strand for the Skerries raft race.
I even got passed by an F1 car
I think I met this chap here last year.
Another forum member taking in the sights and then the race to the slip
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shot from the 2nd race on friday of j24 worlds. images arent great were standing off the marks abit unlike the red boat who got to close and had engine problems and j24s passing either side to avoid collision. will post more over next few days
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