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- May 13, 2023, 9:01pm
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 108 ft
- Ireland Munster County Waterford Dunmore East Dunmore Bay 52.153333, -6.99552°9’12” N 6°59’42” W
Day 4
Dunmore East
May 13, 2023 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The Haven Hotel is home today. Really busy with First Communion parties. Nice little harbour and a cruise ship lingering in the mist. Super coffee and a hard night of dominoes which Andrew won!
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Ireland Adventure
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- May 14, 2023, 10:14am
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 89 ft
- Ireland Munster County Waterford Dunmore East Dunmore Bay 52.156667, -6.99166752°9’24” N 6°59’30” W
Day 5
Harbour - Dunmore East
May 14, 2023 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Nice little fishing harbour and the red stone of the cliffs. Our hotel is to the left of the church on the hill in the background.
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Traveler Was heading for Dun Laoghaire
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- May 30, 2018
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 7 ft
- Ireland Munster County Waterford Dunmore East Dunmore Bay 52.149487, -6.99018152°8’58” N 6°59’25” W
Day 1
Hot but little wind
May 30, 2018 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
The alarm went off at 04.20 and I was soon up.
The sun hadn't appeared and it was dead calm with a little bit of fog.

I was preparing to spring Eureka's bow off the marina when I remembered some wise words of George Butler "See what the boat wants to do and don't work against it".
The stern wanted to go before the bow so I revised my plan and sprang the stern out and reversed out instead.

I motored out of the ferry stowing the fenders and the lines as I went.
It was stunningly beautiful and peaceful with the only ripples in the water being caused by my wake. I was on my way.

I passed Roches Point at 05.57 and increased speed under power as it was still flat calm and it turned out it would remain that way for most of the day.

The sun appeared and burnt off the last of the fog as I was passing Ballycotton and by 09.00 I was off Youghal and listening to the Beach Boys on the radio.
Life was good and would have been perfect it we had some wind.

Two large dolphins passed me later but took no notice of me and kept going and soon after I saw a sun fish flopping around on the surface.

I had hoisted the main off Ballycotton but it did little except steady the boat a little but when I was just east of Dungarvan I had enough wind to sail on a beat into an easterly breeze.

My destination was Kilmore Quay but with the wind on my nose, my course taking me North East, on a course just east of Dunmore East which meant that I'd have to tack out around Hook Head to make Kilmore.
The wind was slowly increasing to 20 knots and I put reefs in the main and genny.

An hour and a half later I decided having had three hours of sailing into a lumpy sea and with the wind strengthening to change course for Dunmore East and go a bit further tomorrow.
I entered the harbour and rafted up to a ketch, the 'Ilen River' on the visitors pontoon at 17.25.

I couldn't find the rice so had bread with my curry for dinner before heading up the village where I found someplace to have a coffee and watch the remainder of the Ireland v. France under 20's rugby.
Despite a strong finish by Ireland, France won 26-24.

When i returned to Eureka I met 'Mel' the owner of the Barbary Ketch 'Ilen' inside me and guessed correctly from the name of the boat that he lived in Skibbereen.
We had a good chat and he told me he kept his boat in Union Hall and was on the way to Scotland.

Soon I felt my eyes begin to close and went down below to put my head down for the night.Read more
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Traveler Keeping Ireland to Starboard
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 🌧 19 °C
- Altitude: 16 ft
- Ireland Munster County Waterford Dunmore East Dunmore Bay 52.149196, -6.98994852°8’57” N 6°59’24” W
Day 66
End of Heatwave.
July 28, 2021 in Ireland ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
I woke early and couldn't get back to sleep with the noise of the wind in the rigging so I headed for the showers before the rush.
There was definitely a change in the weather as it also had become showery.

I had finished my breakfast before before Jim & Angela surfaced. A late start for them.
Jim and I gave the 'Ilen' a hand in departing. There was only a crew of two and they were well skilled so we didn't have much to do.
We then went for a walk up the village and it included a coffee and a scone. At last I was getting my own way!

There was a children's aqua obstacle course in the cove and we were nearly deafened by the children enjoying themselves.
Once we did our sightseeing we returned to the boats where I tried to catch up on the sleep I lost this morning. I was partly successful.

As we were having dinner on 'Second Chance' we discussed tomorrow.
The boat inside us wanted to leave at 07.30 so we decided we might as well leave at the same time instead of tying up again once they had departed.

Our next stop was going to be Jim's home town of Dungarvan and he had arranged the loan of two moorings but we'd have to anchor at the mouth of the bay until we have enough water to get over the bar.

We headed to bed early and I set the alarm for 06.00. It was going to be a long day tomorrow.Read more
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- Jul 27, 2021
- 🌧 18 °C
- Altitude: 16 ft
- Ireland Munster County Waterford Dunmore East Dunmore Bay 52.14924, -6.98998252°8’57” N 6°59’24” W
Day 65
First come gets the berth.
July 27, 2021 in Ireland ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
It was another lovely morning when I stuck my head of of the hatch.
After breakfast we paid a visit to a chandlery as Jim needed gas. I was surprised at the size of the premises and that it supplied the leisure market as well as the local fishing fleet. There was something for everyone, a real Aladdin's cave.
On the way back we visited the RNLI shop, purchased our Christmas cards in plenty of time and fed the collection box. So we had fulfilled our obligation and you never know when you might need them.

We found it impossible to pass a coffee shop so ended up sitting outside in the sun planning our next move.
The weather wasn’t looking too good for the following two days so if we didn’t move today, it looked like we wouldn’t be moving till Friday. While we would have liked to stay a second night we didn’t want to stay for two, so we decided to move and head for the bright lights of Dunmore East

Jim assisted me in leaving my berth and once outside I hoisted the sails and headed west. I found that I was on a beat, welcome back to the south coast!

We were sailing along towards Hook head at almost 6 knts. As I approached the headland the wind strengthened and I had to reef as I galloped along closely followed by Jim.

We then saw a number of yachts heading for Dunmore and as berths are at a premium I was told to get ‘Eureka’ in ASAP and try to hold a space for ‘Second Chance’.
I furled my genny and my 40 horses were put to good use as I motorsailed direct for the harbour entrance. I won.
I dropped my main and entered the harbour rafting up to another Moody.
The bowsprit of the 'Ilen' made things a bit difficult but ‘Second Chance’ was soon rafted up to me and all three berths ended up being at least three deep before the end of the evening.

Drinks and dinner was followed by more drinks before bed.Read more
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