An Irishman's boating diary
This is the last vlog of 2017, so I have prepared a short montage of some of the highlights of the year. Covering places such as Roosky, the Jamestown Canal, The Boyle River, then on up to the beautiful Lough Key with all its islands and magnificent scenery.
Continue reading “Some of the highlights from the 2017 boating season.”
Every Christmas Day Lough Ree Sub Aqua Club organise a charity swim. For the past few years I joined in after all it’s a bit of a laugh. Lough Ree Sub Aqua Club do great work on the lake and further a field also. As well as providing back up to the local RNLI Lifeboat (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) they also provide support and take part in searches all over the island of Ireland.
Continue reading “Christmas Day Swim in the River Shannon, brrrrr it’s cold”
In this episode we cross the English Channel from Weymouth to the Cherbourg peninsula. Then follow the Normandy coast to the Seine Estuary. The journey across the English Channel was another wonderful experience
need to winterise the engines and a few other bits on the boat in order to protect it against frost damage during the worst excesses of the winter.
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Finding how to get an internet connection and especially free WiFi on a boat has long since been a challenge. Well here is how I do it and it works very well and I generally get quite good download speeds. Getting WiFi on a boat has always been difficult because generally a WiFi signal doesn’t travel very far.
Continue reading “How to get free WiFi on a boat and general boating internet info #26”
Galway city is a great city to visit, with its narrow streets and its great sense of culture, there is always something to see and always somewhere to go.
Continue reading “Sure the weather’s crap, lets go to Galway!”