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Silkie,

Yeah,

There is a video on the above website which shows two guys landing on Rockall using an inflatable dinghy in quite a swell - they were lucky to still have a dinghy to get back to mother ship.

Hi Folks

The people organising a round rockall race in 2012 are encouraging Scottish entries - interesting web site set up.

http://www.roundrockallrace.com/

Thanks Shard and Alan for the replies - i will give both links a view. There is something really relaxing about reading an old chart at your leisure ( with no impending life or death situation looming!!)

Tony

Hi folks, I am attempting to source one or two historical charts as display pieces - no navigational use but nice if there is historical navigational data. Main area of interest would be western coast of Ireland. An archaeologist friend was showing me old french admiralty charts of the irish coast p...

Good series - I enjoyed the episode i saw recently. Good to see the presenter obviously into sailing himself.

Can you deploy the transom ladder to have two rungs underwater whilst swimming or is it tied up out of reach ? These are cheap and simple "musts" which allow you to save yourself, rather than whistling for outside assistance with expensive gizmos. I have added a trailing line (with a foot...

came acoss this wonderful character in Bluemoments back pages - great character with very entertaining writing style

http://www.yrvind.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

great yarns on his site

Boots of Spanish leather is a different song altogether - Dylan in his heyday

. First, let me say that I realy enjoyed the video Simon - thanks for the heads-up. You can of course embed youtube videos directly in posts if you would like to. PM me or Silkie if you (or anyone else) would liek to do this and have any problems. Secondly, in response to Sawdoc's question: Does th...

Hi Simon.

Nicely presented video -well done.
Does the coldest December in 30 years or so argue against the global warming theory?

Hi Nick, I have spent a little while on wordpress putting a blog together, thankds to the suggestion you gave some time back. Wordpress does seem to be a much friendlier product with good online support. http://nigheandonn2.wordpress.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It s...

A friend (Coribbee sailor) lent me that book recently. Excellent book well worth reading - moves along at a cracking pace. I thought the loss of the Endeavour could possibly have been avoided with clearer heads and better seamanship. The skipper did not come out so well out of the tale. Prior to rea...

Excellent thread - there must be half an almanac's worth of information contained in the many contributions !

Hi Nick

Thanks for the pointer. I will give Wordpress a trial just to see how it compares to the webs option.

Regards

Tony

I intend putting a modest website together providing some info on Galway Bay and what it has to offer -I have it started and hopefully will populate it with a bit of interesting content over the next week or so - these dark evening with the rain lashing down outside are ideal ! Now that sounds like...