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Saturday, September 29th, 2007Lone sailor rescued from small boat A lone sailor, who may have been at sea for more than a month on a stolen yacht, has been rescued by the Naval Service. The 22-year-old man, who is believed to be Russian, is fit and well. Le Katell, a four-metre vessel, was first spotted by a British-registered […]
Dubarry of Ireland
Saturday, September 29th, 2007I love my Dubarry boots and my Dubarry boat shoes. An impressive and successful Irish company prominent on the world stage. They care about their product. Today on ybw.com’s Scuttlebutt forum, English sailor Tom Frame posted about how he received a free pair of new boots: “After this news item I received a phone call […]
Chieftain is RORC Yacht of the Year
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Another amazing Irish boat… RORC ANNUAL CHALLENGE TROPHIES & SPECIAL AWARDS 2007 YACHT OF THE YEAR winning the SOMERSET MEMORIAL TROPHY for outstanding racing achievement by a yacht owned or sailed by a RORC member as voted for by the RORC Main Committee. In recognition of winning the Rolex Fastnet Race, and second place in […]
Sardinia
Monday, September 24th, 2007Back from a week’s holiday on Sardinia. No sailing, but we did get on board Eamonn Conneely’s Patches, which was in Porto Cervo for the TP52 Global Championship. The boat won the 2006 event. Crewman Ronan Grealish, from Galway, was kind enough to give us a tour of the boat. Everything is made of carbon […]
Green Team for the VOR
Monday, September 10th, 2007Literally stumbled across this new website put up by what appears to be the Irish entry for the 2008 Volvo Ocean Race.
Last Thursday
Friday, August 31st, 2007Last night was the final race of Dublin Bay Sailing Club’s Thursday evening series. It was a bit windy and wild, but great fun. Cheerful people are the only types allowed on our boat.
Carbon crunch
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007On the right: a new carbon bowsprit (gennaker pole) by Selden. On the left, the old one which broke when I stuck into another boat, snagging it between the bottlescrews. The other boat was going upwind, I was sailing downwind. Fortunately, it was a light wind race and nobody on the other boat was hurt. […]
Park the boat
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007That’s Trinculo of Howth, a Sigma 44, having a personal moment at her home harbour.
Fireballs are away.
Monday, August 20th, 2007Many of the top Irish Fireball sailors are away for a fortnight, racing on Lake Garda in Italy and then to Silvaplana in Switzerland for the 2007 World Championship. After two races, Kenny Rumball is the lead Irish boat in 8th place. Details are here. Below: Noel Butler and Seamus Moore at the 2005 Worlds […]
Chieftain to win?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Looks like it. Ger O’Rourke’s canting keel Cookson 50 seems set for has taken overall victory in the 2007 Fastnet race. At 08h 58m 53sec local time, Mike Slade’s new 100-foot super maxi crossed the finish line off the Plymouth breakwater under spinnaker, breaking the Rolex Fastnet Race monohull race record that has stood since […]
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