Showing posts with label Trawlers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trawlers. Show all posts

27 June 2008

It's official: the rainbow ends at Wicklow Harbour!

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For this year's entrants to the Round Ireland Yacht Race, the rainbow really does end at Wicklow Harbour!
2008 entrants White Tiger - IRL 4470, Kinsale Yacht Club and Aquelina - IRL 1661, Arklow Sailing Club in the foreground.


Wicklow RNLI Lifeboat Station and Wicklow Sailing Club in the centre of the photograph.
 
Wicklow Harbour, 26 June 2008.

 
Photo Gallery
HERE

26 July 2007

Classic Yacht Keewaydin - LT1192 Sails On

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Classic Yacht, Keewaydin - LT1192 departing Dunmore East (Copyright 2007 Sailpix Ireland)
 
The classic yacht Keewaydin - LT1192 departing from Dunmore East, County Waterford, Ireland.

Built in 1913 as a trawler for Lowestoft owners, Keewaydin - LT1192, an
eighty foot gaff ketch, has trawled t
he North
Sea Banks, has carried cargo
in the B
altics and has served in both World Wars. 


It circumnavigated the globe in the first Whitbread Round the World
Yacht Race in 1972 and is now employed in the holiday market.

Completely restored, Keewaydin provides crews the opportunity to
learn old skills and sail as it was done one hundred years ago. 

Photo Gallery HERE (or click on photo above)

Map HERE