Ramblings

  • Live video – Killiney Bay

    Live video – Killiney Bay

  • May Holiday – Lisbon, Portugal

    May Holiday – Lisbon, Portugal

    Good fresh food, inexpensive. The maritime museum is pretty interesting, given Portugal’s position in history regarding maritime trade and exploration. Belém Tower wasn’t so interesting – you climb some stairs and look out over the bay, and there was a dearth of information about the role the tower played in history. Monserrate Palace, on the…

  • A Great Day in Leamington Spa

    A Great Day in Leamington Spa

    Back at the end of 2015, a friend from Leamington/Warwick dropped me a line about wanting to re-create “A Great Day in Harlem” with musicians from the Leamington Spa area. For some reason, I agreed to help out, and a date was eventually set for early May of this year. We pored over Google Maps,…

  • A Visit to Wales

    A Visit to Wales

    K and I visited Wales for a holiday. It rained.

  • Overhauling Iona

    Overhauling Iona

    A short clip from Saturday’s sail down to Greystones. I had been overhauling Iona quite quickly, so I furled the genoa some more to make for a slightly slower chase Even with just a partial genoa, she’s a fast boat – I’ve seen her hull, and it’s definitely that of a racing boat.

  • Harbour sailing

    Harbour sailing

      A clip from cruising up the eastern portion of Dun Laoghaire harbour; around the 5:30 mark, I pass a boat that I kind of like the look of – as I pass her, I get a gander at the builder’s plate. Pacific Seacraft. Figures.