SAILINGAREAS
EDITED BY RODGER WITT
IRELAND Betty Armstrong
ireland@sailingtoday.co.uk
China entry. The last big fleet to the thousands of visitors,
CITY OF GALWAY
come anywhere near Galway, of particularly school children, but
course, was the infamous and ill also culturally between Ireland
fated Spanish Armada, but this and the other stopover countries
VO OCEAN RACE
small group of Volvo 70s had world wide, where the Irish
better luck and raised maritime diaspora gather like honeybees
interest far and wide round anything remotely
The statistics are simply smelling of home.
staggering with 420,000 visitors
pouring into Galway during the
two week stay in this historic
city on the edge of Europe.
PHOTO RICK TOMLINSON/VOL
Failte Ireland estimate
VE MCLAUGHIN
the spend was over €70m,
If you need inspiration in wrote in Barna, close to the outstripping all projections
running the shore side of a city, echoed around the Volvo and delighting the overall
PHOTO DA
big maritime gathering, then Ocean Race village and nearby organisers, Let’s do it Global.
look no farther than the city of Salthill. This was a stopover The fleet arrived to be greeted
NEW HOTEL
Galway on Ireland’s west coast. like no other and a nostalgic by 15,000 at 4.30am and the
Time and time again extracts and tear-jerking homecoming in-port racing off Salthill was
MOORINGS
from the Steve Earle classic (and send off again) for the watched by 150,000. They
novel Galway Girl, which he Green Dragon team, the Ireland/ expected 20,000.
The Cliff House Hotel at
Let’s Do It Global was
Ardmore near Waterford on
formed with the purpose of
Ireland’s southern coast has
LIFEJACKET
worrying statistics. Of the 139 laid two heavy duty moorings
checked, 90 had no crutch straps
event managing the stopover,
immediately off the hotel,
CONCERNS
and none had sprayhoods. Forty
entering the team and building
which is indeed on the top of
six weren’t fit for purpose – with
a long term legacy. It will
a cliff. Managing Director Dave
Another of Bangor RNLI Sea
out of date bobbins/autofiring have a huge effect in years to McLaughlin is keen to welcome
Safety Officer Peter Bullick’s
mechanisms and corroded, come, not only having sparked sailors to this establishment.
lifejacket clinics revealed some
deployed or loose cylinders.
an interest in sailing among
WALES Ralph Morris
wales@sailingtoday.co.uk
NEYLAND’S
ANOTHER FIRST FOR
GPS JAMMING
NEW PILES
PEMBROKE LIFEGUARDS
Cessation of the incorporation
When Neyland Marina was
The RNLI’s first lifeguard
of selective random errors in
first built in the mid-1980s cost
patrols in Wales were
America’s GPS system during
control was a major factor and introduced in Pembroke last
Clinton’s administration not only
‘surplus’ pipes from Milford year and were an immediate
improved harbour pilotage and
Haven refineries were used as
enabled a whole new range
success. This year the scheme
piles to anchor the pontoons.
of applications, including road
has been extended with a total
Not the ideal material, they
mapping, it also introduced
of 45 lifeguards patrolling the
had eroded to the extent that
increased risks of malpractice.
beaches. On their first patrol
PHOTOS RALPH MORRIS
a decent hurricane could have
As part of the testing of GPS
caused failures, so this year all
after training, new lifeguards became obvious that her blocking mechanisms, selected
the Lower Basin piles have been
Daffyd Price and Sean Ellison distress was real. She had been
areas round the British coast
replaced. Manager James Cotton
found a woman in an apparently in the dunes all night and was
are disabled for short periods
told ST that they had enjoyed
distressed condition the sand weakening rapidly. They put
of time. On 7-11 September
the full support of berth holders, dunes of Poppet Sands. Their their training into immediate
and 14-18 September 2009 it’s
most of whom are continuing to first thought was that it was use, stabilising her and calling
Wales’ turn.
berth in the marina in spite of
For limited periods between
‘yet another’ test, but it quickly the emergency services.
the harsh economic conditions.
0900 and 1700, GPS receivers
will not work within 5km of
CAERNARFON BAR BUOYS
position 52° 00.881’N 003°
38.518’W (Sennybridge Training
Area, Mid-Wales).
As a result of recent surveys, 0.5m between C4/C5 and C6.
For more information contact
the buoys have been re- C1 53° 07.50’ N 004° 24.76’ W
the Trial Manager (during the
positioned (right):
C2 53° 07.60’ N 004° 24.85’ W
trial) on 07766 134520 or the
The sand bar between C1/C2
C3 53° 07.63’ N 004° 23.80’ W 24hr Sennybridge Operations
C4 53° 07.59’ N 004° 22.81’ W
and C3 remains, drying 0.6m.
point on 01874 635461.
C5 53° 07.51’ N 004° 22.84’ W
There are depths of less than C6 53° 07.17’ N 004° 21.73’ W
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