Miscellany
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Monday, June 7th, 2010Here is what the BP oil spill in the Gulf would look like if it had happened in the middle of the Irish Sea. How can they possibly clean it up? What if it happened here? The Google Map overlay is available at the If It Was My Home website. Go there to see the [...]
Buffy out, Luffy in
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The Stena fast ferry Lynx III arrived in Dun Laoghaire from Holyhead for the first time this afternoon, a test run before scheduled daily service begins on 15 March. The docking was followed by the sound of angle grinders trying to make the car bridge and the pedestrian bridge fit the ferry. No lorries or [...]
Happy New Year
Friday, January 1st, 2010Small bit of snow here in Dublin, many panicked people!
Happy Christmas!
Thursday, December 24th, 2009T’was the night before Christmas, I swung on the hook With snowflakes a’landing, asleep with my book. When up on the deck I heard footsteps and stuff. “I’ve been boarded!” I thought, and I need to be tough. Then down the companionway hatch came a dude, He was dressed like a nut and I thought, [...]
Drilling for Coal in Dublin Bay!
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Or, just east of the Kish Bank to be more accurate. The newly built dynamically positioned drillship Fugro Synergy is due to commence drilling operations for VP Power in the Kish Basin, approximately 13.5 Nautical miles east of Bray Head on or around 7 December 2009. The wells will be shallow coal exploration drilling to [...]
Things to do with your broken mast…
Friday, November 27th, 2009This is a Laser dinghy broken top mast serving as support for our Monstera Deliciosa, commonly known as a swiss cheese plant. It is supported top and bottom with a turned timber disc hollowed out with a hole saw. We recycle!
Howth Lifeboat in Dun Laoghaire
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Sunny day in the Harbour and the Howth Lifeboat is on the hard for quick powerwash of her hull. It’s an all-weather Trent Class designed to lie afloat at deep water moorings or at berth. The sheerline sweeps down for ease of survivor recovery and the hull is of a ‘hard chine’ design Name: Roy [...]
Recycle your broken spars
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009In the past week I was speaking with two different sailboat racers who explained they each took their broken masts to the public amenity recycle centre in Ballyogan. And they each paid €20 for the privilege of dumping their spars! Aluminium is a commodity and scrap metal merchants will purchase bent and broken masts and [...]
I stole this sign in 1969
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Nothing to do with sailing, but given the day, what the hey! Forty years ago, no parking for Richard Nixon’s inauguration. I was at University then.
All the best!
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Little video
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