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A new 6-part documentary about the Waterford Rescue Helicopter begins on Tuesday 14th September at 8.30. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N3GJGy6iz8 for a preview.

• The Jubilee Sailing Trust is a registered charity that provides sailing opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. The Trust owns and operates two Tall Ships, the Lord Nelson and the Tenacious. The Lord Nelson was in Waterford today and what a lovely ship she is. She was launched in 1986 and to date over 11,000 trainess have sailed with the ship and experienced the joy, pleasure and even the hardships of crewing on a Tall Ship across the oceans of the world. Around 40 trainees can be accommodated on any one voyage and the ship is purposefully adapted to cater for people of all physical and sensory abilities (lifts between decks, wide aisles, signs in Braille, a speaking compass etc). Worth a look at before she sails on her next voyage (from Glasgow to Cardiff from the 19th September for a week of hard sailing on the Irish Sea).

  1st September 2010

   

• The SS Avoca was built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in Scotland in 1891 for British India Associated Steamers Ltd of Glasgow. She was a steam ship built in steel and driven by a quadruple expansion engine. She changed hands a number of times and with the change in ownership came various name changes (San Fernando, Atlanta, Avoca Uranium); she was purchased in 1916 by the Cunard line and named Feltria. However, while on route to Avonmouth from New York with general cargo and Government supplies, the 5254-ton Feltria was torpedoed off the Waterford coast by a German submarine (UC48) on the 5th May 1917. All 45 lives on board were lost, including that of the Captain W. G Price. Her anchor is now shorebound and lies proud on the quayside at Dungarvan, near the Sailing Club, while the wreck itself is 20 kilometres southeast of Helvick Head.

  31 August 2010

   

• A copper navigation light is bolted to the wall of the Sailing Club premises, on the quayside at Dungarvan. These lights were originally placed at Wyse’s Point, Ballinacourty by the Waterford Steamship Company, as a guide for shipping trying to navigate the narrow channel in Dungarvan Bay on their way to the Town Quay in Dungarvan. They were put in place on the 10th February 1876 and the oil lamps had to be lit manually every night to fulfil their function. Later they were electrified and displayed an occulting light every 5 seconds. The lights were taken out of service in 1999 when the channel was marked by lighted buoys. The lamps were manufactured by F. Barrett & Co, Engineers, Dublin.

  30 August 2010

   

• One of the crew, with nothing else to do, while wandering around Waterford City this morning spotted the Tall Ship depicted in photograph below and is offering a prize to anyone who can say where the image was taken. Now there's a challenge. The same crew member, a blow-in as he says himself, has been wandering around the City for nigh on 30 years now, and was delighted to see something that he had never seen before!

  25 August 2010

   

What a weekend: Great music, great people but above all GREAT CRAIC.

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