For anyone that has an interest into the technical aspects of navigation, running your boat at night can be a fun and engaging activity. It can also test your nerves as the darkness impedes the primary sense of vision leaving your imagination to fill the void. As our time in Ireland was closing, we turned […]
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Eire Part 4: The SW Coast
Dingle Everyone we had talked to along the way in Ireland had commented on how great Dingle is. So of course we had to go there, being fairly close by at this point. Dingle Sound is as far north as we traveled on the Western Irish coast. If we had time at hand, we would […]
Eire Part 3: Around the Corner
From Crookhaven to Valentia, rounding Mizen Head and skirting the islands of the Bull, the Cow, and the Heifer as well as the Skelligs.
Eire Part 2: Castlehaven and Barloge Creek
Coastal navigation is largely about respecting the rocks. Not the pebbles that you can pick up and throw, more about large blocks projecting from or lurking beneath the surface. They are everywhere and in Western Europe they are not necessarily tied in to the beach. They randomly show up anywhere or out in the middle […]
Eire Part 1: Cork & Kinsale
It is funny, most places where people travel, they tend to say how nice the people are. In Canada, the people are so nice! In Costa Rica, the people are so nice! It makes you wonder, what is so un-nice about your neighbors back home? Or maybe it is somehow surprising when we put our […]