Tag: holiday
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Holiday 2024 – Dun Laoghaire to Girvan
An easy drive north, though working out how to get a 2024 Seat Leon reconfigured for miles per hour instead of kilometres per hour took longer than it should have – Enterprise apparently believe their customers do not need the manuals for the vehicle, and it wasn’t in the car. Stopped off in Belfast to…
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Tripping North
After a week of on-call post Christmas, I had a week of PTO with K visiting (we spent Christmas with her parents in Germany). The weather was variable, as it usually is in Ireland, but we got in a few nice walks; we had a rental car for the week, so we were able to…
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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 load; a couple of early starts, some that we chose to make, others that the…
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A Sailing Holiday – Greystones to Dun Laoghaire
Late start to the morning, but we had no great urgency since itโs less than two hours from Greystones to Blue Opalโs mooring. We went ashore, paid for the berth, had hot showers, and went over to La Creperie for breakfast. Nice galettes. We were away by noon, and immediately faced into a sea being…
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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 much flood as we can get, so that we can get to Arklow quickly. About…
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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 Kโs biscuits in the oven just gone 0800. Showed our neighbour in the Degero (called Tom Bombadil (the boat, not the person)) how to turn his new bow thruster on and…