Learning from the past two days, we got up early today so we had the tide with us around Wicklow Head. As you can see from the tidal map below, in this area we can have up to 3.9 knots of tide, if we’re going 6 knots through the water, then this makes a large difference to our speed. Yesterday we were judging our progress by the “Horse shoe” red channel marker, and it seemed to be getting further and further away from us. Today, with the tide in the correct direction, we were about a mile past it before we finished launching our kites.
Our main obstacle for today was Dublin harbour. We needed to be on high alert looking for any ships coming in/out. Although they’re large beasts, they move fast, and if you’re not careful can be on top of you before you realise. The large ferry in the photo looked like a small apartment building on the land when we first saw it and within 10 minutes it was steaming past us. I was so focused looking for ships that it took me by surprise when out of the corner of my eye I saw a large passenger plane, Dublin airport is on the other side of the harbour so we were under the flight path. Its the first time all trip we’ve seen commercial planes, we’ve passed lots of small air fields, and when we went to the Isles of Scilly there was a regular service from Lands End, but other than that we haven’t seen much air traffic.
About 12 miles past Dun Laoghaire (pronounced “Don Lairie”), the town on the edge of the harbour, we decided to call it a day. We had post to collect there and it would take us about 2 hours to get back. I remarked that we’d only been going for 4 hrs 20 mins, so had only really started our day, Stew’s response to this was “Oh no, I’ve created a monster”. Apparently he meant it as a compliment, due to my excessive kiting addiction. Not sure what world a monster is complimentary, but I guess it is in his.
Safe ashore I decided to explore the local Sunday market. Dublin marks our half way point in terms of distance, so I treated everyone to some small food treats. Stew got olives; Joe a sausage roll for his lunch tomorrow; and Jeremy keeps asking for “healthy snacks” whenever I go to the supermarket. Still unsure what those entail I got him some basil hummus, tasted more like pesto spread than hummus, but still delicious. For me I got some “Lady Lumps” just because I loved the name!
High Five to everyone for making half way! Looking forward to all the new adventures in store for us in the second half.
Wags
The Water Wag Club was founded in Kingstown (the old name for Dun Laoghaire, named after King George IV who came to open the port) in 1887 to “Establish a class of sailing punt with centreboard all rigged and built the same”. This was the first time in yachting history that all the boats in a race should be identical, and that the winner would be the person with the greatest skill, since then the concept of ‘One-design’ has become the norm. ‘Wags’ can still be seen sailing in the harbour every Wednesday evening in summer.
Map of today’s route
Map Key: Stew (Red), Islay (White) and Mentor (Blue)
| Days since start of trip | 61 |
| Number of Kiting Days | 26 |
| Distance Travelled Today | 33.3 nm |
| Distance Kited Today | 53.6 nm |
| Time spent kiting today | 4 hrs 23mins |
| Total Distance Travelled | 823 nm |
| Total Distance Kited | 1111 nm |
| Total Kiting time | 123 hrs 9 mins |
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