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A Sailing Holiday – Wrap-up

A Sailing Holiday – Wrap-up

It was an interesting, and at times stressful, 21 days of sailing holiday. A few cases of “is the anchor dragging?”, with varying answers; some cases of the anchor refusing to bed, and breaking out when put under back-down engine

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A Sailing Holiday – Greystones to Dun Laoghaire

A Sailing Holiday – Greystones to Dun Laoghaire

Late start to the morning, but we had no great urgency since it’s less than two hours from Greystones to Blue Opal’s mooring. We went ashore, paid for the berth, had hot showers, and went over to La Creperie for

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A Sailing Holiday – Kilmore Quay to Arklow (but actually Greystones)

A Sailing Holiday – Kilmore Quay to Arklow (but actually Greystones)

The passage plan for today called for us to slip from the dock at 0730, and catch the eddy tide along the shore to Carnsore Point so that we arrive by about 0940 for the flood tide. We want as

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A Sailing Holiday – Kilmore Quay (Again)

A Sailing Holiday – Kilmore Quay (Again)

Saturday Slept in today, 0730 wake up call from harbour noise and bright sunshine through the hatch. Tea brewed up, and a batch of K’s biscuits in the oven just gone 0800. Showed our neighbour in the Degero (called Tom

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A Sailing Holiday – Little Island to Kilmore Quay

A Sailing Holiday – Little Island to Kilmore Quay

Well, this is the leg that says “yes, the sailing holiday is drawing to a close”. Scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast, and then away with the ebb tide down the Suir and Barrow to the estuary. Clocked 9 knots

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A Sailing Holiday – Little Island

A Sailing Holiday – Little Island

Our stay by little island did not get off to an auspicious start. Around midnight, as the ebb current got stronger, I woke to hear the sound of chain grinding. Worrying that we were dragging somehow, I went up on

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