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Woohooo, just booked accomodation in Kinsale for Cork week, I'll be sailing and the OH is coming along to do some touring around Cork
He's also my designated chauffeur for the week 
Any tips from any veterans on what to expect of the four days racing?0 -
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Wasn't there for the last two, but was there for the two before that (when it was five days racing).
Best organised racing in the country (that I've come across anyway).
When we were down there there were 400-500 boats on five courses - I think I heard last time there were in or around 100, so I don't know how that has affected the setup, but there can't possibly have been the same atmosphere. May well have been better though, it was an awful scrum the years I was there!
You will be fleeced at every turn. Beers in the RCYC, beers in the pubs in town, accomodation, meals out, everything. Have deep pockets.
Brilliant, brilliant fun.
The Harbour Course (assuming they still have it) was my favourite of all - a romp all the way from outside Roche's Point up to Cobh where we practically stuck the nose of the boat under the boardwalk and could see the whites of the pedestrians' eyes - and half the fleet ran aground
It was a brilliant week, you'll have a great time. And learn LOADS. There's a lot to be said for a solid week of racing all day every day, you'll learn ten times as much as doing the same number of hours over a few months of Saturdays.
Jealous!!!
ETA - hold on.... Kinsale? Cork Week? Are you sure? Kinsale has Sovereign's Week (I think!), Crosshaven has Cork Week....... I'm on about Cork Week in Crosshaven. Hope I haven't got wires crossed here!0 -
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »Wasn't there for the last two, but was there for the two before that (when it was five days racing).
Best organised racing in the country (that I've come across anyway).
When we were down there there were 400-500 boats on five courses - I think I heard last time there were in or around 100, so I don't know how that has affected the setup, but there can't possibly have been the same atmosphere. May well have been better though, it was an awful scrum the years I was there!
You will be fleeced at every turn. Beers in the RCYC, beers in the pubs in town, accomodation, meals out, everything. Have deep pockets.
Brilliant, brilliant fun.
The Harbour Course (assuming they still have it) was my favourite of all - a romp all the way from outside Roche's Point up to Cobh where we practically stuck the nose of the boat under the boardwalk and could see the whites of the pedestrians' eyes - and half the fleet ran aground
It was a brilliant week, you'll have a great time. And learn LOADS. There's a lot to be said for a solid week of racing all day every day, you'll learn ten times as much as doing the same number of hours over a few months of Saturdays.
Jealous!!!
ETA - hold on.... Kinsale? Cork Week? Are you sure? Kinsale has Sovereign's Week (I think!), Crosshaven has Cork Week....... I'm on about Cork Week in Crosshaven. Hope I haven't got wires crossed here!
Yeah it's Crosshaven, but as I'm trying to combine Cork week with a holiday with the OH and LOATHE hotels as I travel a lot with work, I found a great apartment in Kinsale, don't mind driving each day, and the OH doesn't drink so he will happily schedule what he's doing with any social activities that take place And it means that we can have a night or two together outside of somewhere like Carrigaline heaving with sailors (he's not a fan of sailing at all!)
THey do still have the Harbour course, looking forward to that
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Yeah it's Crosshaven, but as I'm trying to combine Cork week with a holiday with the OH and LOATHE hotels as I travel a lot with work, I found a great apartment in Kinsale, don't mind driving each day, and the OH doesn't drink so he will happily schedule what he's doing with any social activities that take place And it means that we can have a night or two together outside of somewhere like Carrigaline heaving with sailors (he's not a fan of sailing at all!)
THey do still have the Harbour course, looking forward to that
Thanks for the post
Yeah, just checked, seems Sovereign's Cup is every second year opposite Cork Week. I thought it was yearly.
I thought Kinsale was a lot further from Crosshaven than it seems to be - and if you've a non-drinker to chauffeur you to and from, then you're sorted! You'll still have very early starts, though! Sailing courses can be an hour from the pontoon/raft.
But it's a blast of a week, you'll have a great time!0 -
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Kinsale is a great spot, especially good if you like seafood restaurants
Yup, love my seafoodHeidiHeidi wrote: »Yeah, just checked, seems Sovereign's Cup is every second year opposite Cork Week. I thought it was yearly.
I thought Kinsale was a lot further from Crosshaven than it seems to be - and if you've a non-drinker to chauffeur you to and from, then you're sorted! You'll still have very early starts, though! Sailing courses can be an hour from the pontoon/raft.
But it's a blast of a week, you'll have a great time!
It's less than 20 mins drive and I expect I'll be driving to Carrigaline and meeting the lads there as they are staying there. The OH is great about the sailing/chauffeuring side of things tbh, and it's a quarter of my holidays from work to go, so using it for him to visit relatives (he's from Cork), do history stuff which drives me bats, and other random stuff while I'm out sailing makes sense
Come the longer days I'll be out sailing up to six days a week (evenings and weekends) and he is very very accomodating about that, so it will be nice to combine the two 0 -
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You'll have to sort that out! :P
he's very supportive of me having a hobby/sport I enjoy, but he sees it as a dangerous sport* (he can't swim, and went out a few times on a cruiser).
There is no way in hell he would every get on a boat, when he went on the cruiser, he spent his time in the cabin heehee
That said I show him videos and stuff and he has fierce interest in what is happening but doesn't want to be in those situations.
*Took me five years to turn him into a rugby fan
But like I said he is incredibly supportive with my sailing, I actually have to credit him with me going to the introduction day in Howth last year, he insisted we do it, so without him, I'd not now have a hobby that I enjoy so much 0 -
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Sounds good then. By the sounds of it though, there's potential there to slowly convert him, with a bit of work :P
No chance lolol, and fair play to him imo for knowing his boundaries
He is most amazed at the fact that I used sleep in Sat/Sun until 1/2pm, and sees me get up at 7am on a Sunday to go sailing.0 -
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »....... - and half the fleet ran aground
That was not a first - happened all the time. There was a well-known RIYC boat called 'Standfast' that hit the mud on a low tide and was thenceforth christened and known everafter as 'Stuckfast'.:D
Back when it was Ford Week we competed most years and always tried to nobble a local as crew for the Harbour Race - tidal knowledge is critical. You will have a ball, it's a great event.0 -
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Are you sure you weren't on our boat???
We tied ourselves up in knots, the boat and every rope on it into worse knots, wrapped the spinny, the uphaul and sundry other things around the forestay, almost t-boned a 1720 in half (hope you're over the shock, if you're reading this, whoever you were - but we WERE on starboard and shouting:D). And that was just on run one. We gave up on it after that!!! And put a rip in the jib just for good measure. Thankfully the main seems to have survived the day.
Much, much windier than I expected - it was quite the shock to the system, which hasn't seen any action since last November. And oh boy, you could tell! I can hardly walk now. Clearly some training is required before lift-in of our own boat......0 -
....and even managed to get one crew wet.
Wet?
WET????
I reckon I made history there...
Kite was wrapped, me trying to undo it and it fills with me on the wrong side of the sheet (silly mistake), next thing I'm kite surfing on my back about 10 feet to leeward of the boat - still doing 7kts and no way was I letting go of the sheet..
Managed to somehow 'surf' back to the boat and grabbed onto the rail and, with some help, got back on board.
Thankfully the lifejacket didn't inflate, I'd never have gotten through the rail.
Best bit is this though, I'm sitting there in the cockpit, dripping, I reach into my inside pocket and the smokes are still dry!! the lighter even worked!!!
Some day. 0 -
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Wet?
WET????
I reckon I made history there...
Kite was wrapped, me trying to undo it and it fills with me on the wrong side of the sheet (silly mistake), next thing I'm kite surfing on my back about 10 feet to leeward of the boat - still doing 7kts and no way was I letting go of the sheet..
Managed to somehow 'surf' back to the boat and grabbed onto the rail and, with some help, got back on board.
Thankfully the lifejacket didn't inflate, I'd never have gotten through the rail.
Best bit is this though, I'm sitting there in the cockpit, dripping, I reach into my inside pocket and the smokes are still dry!! the lighter even worked!!!
Some day.
I am so glad I was too sick to go sailing today, that could have been me :eek:
I was just thinking about getting my lifejacket serviced too!
Was the photographer out today? 0 -
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Wasn't sure which thread to post this on, might be of interest to some..... if anyone thinks it'd be seen by more in another thread please feel free to move
Boat jumble to be held in Greystones 6th April.
http://www.sailing.ie/ISANews/tabid/115/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/58798/language/en-GB/Greystones-Boat-Jumble.aspx?utm_source=ISA+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3856669ea7-Weekly_Newsletter_13th_March_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dad6065394-3856669ea7-1284802690 -
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