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IRISH CRUISING CLUB 2015 ANNUAL 2 0 1 5 ANNUAL IRISH CRUISING CLUB Published by Irish Cruising Club Publications Limited. © 2015 Irish Cruising Club Publications Limited, for private circulation. Front and Back Covers: Ainmara in Strangford Narrows, with the Mourne Mountains behind. Photo: Pete Adams Frontispiece: Coire Uisge in Blind Harbour, Co. Waterford. Photo: Norman Kean. Submissions for the 2016 Annual To reach the Honorary Editor, Ed Wheeler, Hilltop Farm, 31 Ballyhay Rd., Donaghadee, Co Down, BT21 0LU. Email: [email protected]. Tel. 00 44 28 91 884098, Mob. 00 44 7896733942, by Fri 21st October 2016. Logs received after that date will not be included nor considered for an award. Notes for Contributors Logs Length: may be typically 1,000-5,000 words, major cruises 6,000-10,000. Format: logs should be submitted by email or on disc or data stick in MS Word or Text format only. Log titles must include the name of the author and the name of the area cruised. Track charts are always useful and will be standardised from sketch maps submitted in paper or electronic format. Summaries (including such items as dates and durations of passages, etc) are optional but desirable. Photographs: send about 1 photo per 800 words. Photos should be .jpg or similar format. Photographs may be emailed. Please ensure that captions are provided for all photographs. Photographs which illustrate the places visited in a manner useful to other members are appreciated. Pictures of members and their crews are welcome, but be sure to indicate the names in the caption (in the sequence shown on the photograph). Upright (portrait format) photos will be particularly welcomed as well as landscape format. All logs will be entered for Awards, unless requested otherwise. Selected photographs will be shortlisted for the photographic prize. Please note: there is no need for hard (paper) copy of logs, Dunns Ditties or photographs. All material, where at all possible, should be submitted in digital format only. Dunn’s Ditties May be 200-1,000 words; anecdotal or illustrative of cruise highlights (or lowlights) or a cruise summary. Editorial preferences Please adhere to these in-house conventions: Layout and fonts: Use standard fonts. Do not insert line breaks or extra paragraph breaks. Do not insert extra spaces. Do NOT embed graphics or photographs in logs. Spelling: please ensure the accuracy in spelling of place-names: use the spelling given on your charts, and be careful of accents etc in names in languages other than English (for example .ä, ü, ø, optional i or y in Greek, vowel-free Croatian etc.) Do not use italics or capitals for place names. Use Italics for yacht and ship names. Please do not use parenthesis for yacht names, nor capital letters. The Editor may limit the material to be published, and may consult the Editorial Subcommittee Our thanks go to John Clementson for making the track charts and for proof reading, to Stanton Adair for organising the Annual’s distribution and to Ann Woulfe-Flanagan for overseeing the inscribing and presentation of the Club Trophies, and ensuring their subsequent return. ISSN No. 0791-6132 Irish Cruising Club Annual 2015 Coire Uisge in Blind Harbour, Co. Waterford. Photo: Norman Kean. Not a haven for the faint-hearted. The copyright in the logs included in this Annual are vested in the author. No log or part of a log may be reproducedi without the permission of the author. IRISH CRUISING CLUB ANNUAL 2015 CONTENTS Logs: Annual Dinner Weekend, Killarney . iii Honorary Secretary’s Report 2015 .........................Alan Markey ������������������������������������������������������������ iv Challenge Cup Awards ..................................Hilary Keatinge (nee Roche) ������������������������������������ vi Club Awards 2014 . viii Editor’s Remarks.......................................Ed Wheeler ............................. viii Lough Ree RallyReport . 9 To the Arctic Circle in Lady Kate ..........................Donal Walsh ����������������������������������������������������������� 10 Pure Magic’s Odyssey home continues, via Greenland...........Peter Killen ������������������������������������������������������������� 17 North Atlantic Crescent .................................Paddy Barry . 23 Incident at Black Ball Head...............................Geraldine Hennigan – Coire Uisge �� � � � � � � � � � � � � 31 Tallulah goes south to the Azores ..........................Alan Rountree ��������������������������������������������������������� 33 Shelduck’s American Cruise, ; Chesapeake to Maine ............Neil Hegarty ����������������������������������������������������������� 35 Papageno finds that The Rain in Spain stays mainly in the Plain....Peter Haden. 41 Biscay Circuit with Hecuba ............................... John Duggan . 43 ReeSpray leaves the Med .................................David Beattie . 49 To Croatia and the Adriatic on Tidal Dancer ................. David Jones ������������������������������������������������������������� 53 Tam O’Shanter visits Eight Baltic Countries in July.............Anne Kenny. 59 Mac Duach – Moy Hooker Challenge .......................Michael Brogan ������������������������������������������������������� 63 Soundings from Swallow Cove ............................W.M.Nixon. 65 Yet another cruise to a very cool Hebrides for Marie Claire ....... Seán McCormack. 71 From Howth to Torrevieja ...............................Ken and Carmel Kavanagh. 75 Bearding the Hellenic Dilemma ...........................Robert Barker. 81 Adventures on Drumbeat ................................Paul Cooper. 87 A quickstep around the Irish Sea and Anglesey in Sea Dancer .... Harry Whelehan ����������������������������������������������������� 95 Ariadne around Skye ...................................Colin Leonard ������������������������������������������������������� 101 “Gibraltar with Care”: from Alicante to Lagos ................Guy B Johnston . 106 A Norwegian Cruise ....................................Michael and Anne Madsen. 109 Mary P cruising in the Baltic ..............................Neil J. Prendeville & Crew. 115 The Azores – round and round again........................Nick Musgrave. 121 Sancerre just tickled the Hebrides for lobster and whisky. ........Peter Mullan ��������������������������������������������������������� 124 Stormy Skye ..........................................Vivienne White ����������������������������������������������������� 127 Grenada to El Salvador via the Panama Canal on Chantey V ..... Daragh Nagle. 130 First Hebridean Foray for Calico Jack ....................... Conor O’Byrne ����������������������������������������������������� 133 Islands in South Brittany.................................Jonathan Virden. 137 New York to Sherkin - The Scenic Route. ....................Justin McDonagh ������������������������������������������������� 141 Summer Cruising in the Rias Baixas, Galicia..................John O’Dea & Deborah Evers . 152 Donegal West And South: Close Encounters Of The Clutch Kind . Paul McSorley ������������������������������������������������������� 154 Back to The Future: another 16 ft Gaffer.....................David Whitehead. 157 Geronimo and the not so wild west (coast of Scotland). ..........Robin and Denise Wright ������������������������������������� 159 Obituaries ............................................. .165 ii Dunn’s Ditties: Glen Ditty 2015 Pete Hogan ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 16 Joe Phelan writes about a Ticket in a bottle. 22 Hugh Barry writes of Five Men in a Boat ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 30 David Beattie was also Locking down in to Friesland ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 52 John Clementson writes of a possible final cruise on Faustina II . � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 74 Peter Williams quotes “From Three Yachts” by Conor O’Brien, on Loch Scavaig . 80 Jarlath Cunnane built his new Atkin Schooner, Mac Lir and delivered Northabout to her new owners. 86 Sean Fergus recalls Starolite 1978/1979. 100 Alan Leonard goes clockwise round the Clyde. 105 Jill Cross describes an Adriatic Adventure.. 108 Lists at Back: Past & Present Officers of the Irish Cruising Club ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 166 Index of Cruising Grounds past ten years ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 167 List of Award Winners ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 168 Annual Dinner Weekend, Killarney For the Annual Dinner in March, Killarney put on its best display. Fine weather, brilliant sunshine and perfect conditions for walking in the National Park, boating on the lakes and golf were set off by a good attendance, fine wining and dining and excellent company. The Commodore addresses the Dinner Diners just starting to have a lovely time....... Rogues’ Gallery: Your Committee iii By Killarney’s Lakes and Fells ... Honorary Secretary’s Report 2015 Once again the New Year began with the Election Committee Meeting in early January and twenty three