Stan and I have just spent the weekend whizzing around the harbour of Cork in the dark, wondering why the compass is off by 15 degrees.
Night time pilotage is great fun having plotted a course on 4 sheets of A4 paper and then tried to read this in the dark, at speed, in a 5mtr RIB whilst holding on and hoping the notes don't blow away.
We managed to complete the weekend without too much damage, all be it a hangover on Saturday morning, (Stans Fault) and are now fully qualified to acquire the much coveted Race licence from those wonderful chaps at the RYA. Now we just need the medical sorting.... cough now please.
Thanks to all the guys we met at the weekend, and to Eddie, Jo, Con and Crew at http://www.sailcork.com/ who guided us successfully and safely through the weekend.
(It was mainly Richards and Joes fault by the way. :o) )
Moving on to more interesting things. We have heard from our illustrious boat builders, Quinquari Marine in Wales (no comment please) that Wolf is taking shape nicely and that nearly all the components for the build are in place.
Humber have all but finished the hull and once delivered we hope to have a completed boat by the end of March. Things happen slowly in the valleys.
Subject to a satisfactory birth and of course a few rips around the Ramsey sound it's back home to Ireland for some testing, training, and weekends in West Cork.
Mac.
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