Glandore Harbour, Ireland Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler West Cork here I come
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- Jul 18, 2022, 8:39pm
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Ireland Munster Cork Glandore Glandore Harbour 51.562683, -9.12138851°33’46” N 9°7’17” W
Day 2
Glandore is too popular!
July 18, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
I suppose you can’t have everything?
Set off at 07.00 just after a lovely dawn.
It was flat calm at East Ferry but once I was past White Gate there was a bit of a breeze and the engine was off as I passed Roches Point.
The Bimini was extended and as the morning heated up I was glad of its shade.
The winds were light until Oyster Haven and I had a good sail to the Old Head, then someone turned off the wind and for the rest of the voyage the sails were up and down as I got a bit of exercise in winching away.
Only one small dolphin 🐬 kept me company for a few minutes.
I finally gave up on trying to sail shortly after the Galley and was spotted by ‘the sheriff’ as I approached Glandore.
Well, they’ve put a harbour master in place but taken away the visitor moorings (that’s some improvement) so I anchored at 19.30 among some other visitors.
Had my dinner in the cockpit on a lovely warm evening while I wondered about going ashore. The place looks jam packed with tourists, you’d think they’d have some better places to go 😎Read more
Traveler Happy sailing, Pat. Hope weather stays good for you.
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- Jul 19, 2022, 10:54am
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 82 ft
- Ireland Munster Cork Glandore Glandore Harbour 51.566792, -9.12064251°34’0” N 9°7’14” W
Day 3
A quite night in.
July 19, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Boy was I tired. I slept until the phone woke me at 10.00.
This covid thing just sucks the energy out of you.
A quick trip ashore in the dinghy and a lovely cup of coffee while I waited for Maeve to arrive.
I was mortified when she did as she picked out the wrong boat as being Eureka.
When I went back aboard in the evening I had to apologise and explain to Eureka that Maeve hadn’t gone to spec savers.
Anyway back to the morning, Maeve and I had lunch in Roscarbery and headed back to Cononagh to met Maeve’s sister and B.I.L.
Later B.I.L Tony and I went on a mooring cleaning exercise to Castlehaven where he keeps his boat.
I didn’t take long to clean his so we visited a friend, Marcus who has his yacht close by.
Cleaning his mooring was a different kettle of shellfish and required a lot of ‘muscles’ to be evicted.
Marcus paid up with a can or two of beer before we returned ashore and I was dropped off back at Glandore.
A good few visiting yachts had arrived in my absence including two from East Ferry. Another few arrived as I was making the dinner and I counted 13 before I headed down below. 4 French, 3 British, 4 East Ferry ie Irish but from the best part and 2 unknown.
Tomorrow I’m hoping to meet ‘Phoenix’ another East Ferry boat in Castletownsend who plan to overnight there on their way back east.
So it’ll be a long day, 6 mls? I’ll have to find some places to visit on the way to make good use of the day.
Covid has hit some of the relations here in West Cork so I’ll remain crew-less and may have to leave my visiting till I’m passing the door on the way back all going well.
So tonight I’m having a quite night onboard as I just don’t feel like going ashore as the company is just as good here 🤪Read more
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- Aug 4, 2022, 4:51pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Ireland Munster Cork Glandore Glandore Harbour 51.566108, -9.12273951°33’58” N 9°7’22” W
Day 19
A perfect day
August 4, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Had to set the clock to make sure I’d be up in time to tidy Eureka before the visitor arrived.
The sun was shining, the wind was blowing from the right direction and I was going to have crew.
A perfect day ?
Norma my SIL after a small detour arrived on the button and we headed out to Eureka.
We lifted the anchor at 11.00, having first to take the boat hook to a shrimp 🦐 pot wrapped around the chain.
Who the feck lays pots in an anchorage, someone in Baltimore does!!
We only had a gentle breeze until we got to the Kedges and I was wondering where the wind had gone.
I felt a draught on my face and seconds afterwards, we heeled over and took off.
We had a lovely reach to the Stags when the wind picked up even more and we changed to a more northerly course towards Glandore.
Norma was getting a taste every type of sailing in the four hours it took to get to Glandore.
For probably the first time ever when sailing I was on time.
It’s hard to get good crew especially ones who feed you and leave the galley better than they found it so I had to hold up my end of the bargain and had to have Norma ashore at the time stated.
We had a drink ashore while we waited for Anthony to arrive and collect Norma.
I wandered over to Glandore Church where the entrance is a hole carved in a rock. For the first time in over 30 yrs of visiting Glandore, it was open and I went in to the lovely simple interior and had a look at the wall hangings that gave the history of the locality.
Later lAs I sat in the cockpit eating the dinner Norma left for me a yacht flying the Breton flag sailed in and showed how to dig in an anchor without needing an engine.
Had to make another trip ashore to meet another relative. A great chat over two pints and then back to Eureka on a flat calm night.
The icing on the cake to a perfect day 😎Read more
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- May 25, 2021
- 🌧 16 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Ireland Munster Cork Glandore Glandore Harbour 51.563264, -9.1216151°33’48” N 9°7’18” W
Day 2
To Glandore with a bit of fog
May 25, 2021 in Ireland ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
The forecast seemed to have got it right and the winds had eased when we woke up about 07.00.
Unfortunally it was raining but we didn't care. Any start is a good start.
Visibility was down to half a mile as we followed ‘Second Chance’ out of the harbour.
Navigation was done on the plotter. We could barely see Jim but had him on AIS but as we only had a receiver and not a transponder they couldn’t see us.

At the Daunt we at last had enough wind and hoisted sail and were off on a reach in a Southerly Force 3-4.
Jim radioed that they had passed a large whale but we never saw it but did see a basking shark off Oysterhaven.

The rain had stopped by the time we got to the Old Head and we could at last see 'Second Chance' inside us while we stayed a little further offshore.

We were making 7 knts. on a reach and beginning to eat into the miles to Glandore as the wind strengthen a bit.
The wind went around to the east crossing Clonakility bay and our genoa didn’t like it as it was being smothered by the main. We tried goose winging for a while but in the end we furled the genny in a bit to reduce the overlap which helped.
The wind died approaching the Galley so we furled the genny and later dropped the main, motoring into Glandore and picked up a visitors mooring at 17.30 closely followed in by ‘Second Chance’.

The bimini was put up, not for the sun but to keep the rain off. Unfortunally it started again as we entered the harbour and it didn't stop until after we were in bed. Jim & Angela had the luxury of a cockpit tent.

Brian and I chilled out with a beer as we decided not to bother going ashore as there was nothing open anyway due to covid.
We organised with Jim & Angela about tomorrow, destination Cape Clear and leaving by 09.00. Simple?
Had the dinner, washed down with a beer and after a long chat with Brian, headed to bed.
We had made the start and the weather had to improve, didn’t it?Read more
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