2010 Isle of Man? - Page 9

Grouse · 02 June 2010, 11:10

If the weather is going to stay good i will be leaving Carrickfergus on Saturday morning about 4.15am hopefully getting into Peel at about 6.30am. Will be returning that evening after the flapgate opens. Hope you all have a safe trip.

wavelength · 02 June 2010, 22:48

Kwil and me (or should that be I) should be leaving Fleetwood at around 8am (if I can get outta bed) to get there 11 ish.
How about some mobile numbers and boat names for contact purposes?
For a start
Kwil boat "magic2" 07971798694 Keith
wavelength boat "rebel" 07753616065 Dave

Out on the big boat tomorrow but swopped friday with a mate so should be back from Cumbria, the Solway and all its problems in time. Our thoughts here are with the victims of the shootings and our good fortune in being in Workington harbour and not Whitehaven harbour this morning.

Cypman · 02 June 2010, 23:00

my mobile is 07624 321982

willk · 02 June 2010, 23:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cypman

my mobile is 07624 321982

Copied - I'll be in touch tomorrow.

BTW, is there any requirement for a Passport for the IOM? Or is photo ID ok?

Cypman · 03 June 2010, 12:24

I have never carried a pasport between IOM and NI (was at Ardglass for lunch on Sunday with Brian). It is just possible that you might be visited on arrival by the Port Officials.

willk · 03 June 2010, 23:44

Teams Scotland and (Northern) Ireland will be using Ch6 as a working channel.

tonymac · 04 June 2010, 08:25

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Originally Posted by willk

Teams Scotland and (Northern) Ireland will be using Ch6 as a working channel.

Brian · 05 June 2010, 14:53

Well, arrivals this morning were: Willk from Ireland, BruceB from Scotland and GED from Wales.
Mr. Manning has taken some divers out but will be back in soon.
A pretty full set I'd say.

It's BruceB on the left of the photo and Willk on the extreme right.
Mrs. B. should be fairly obvious, and the other chaps name escapes me for the moment, but is a pal of Willks from Donegal.
Nice to put names from this forum to people isnt it?
Photo taken at the back of the grandstand at the IOM TT races.

wavelength · 05 June 2010, 22:10

wavelength and kwil---wewuzthere too

But got held up for over half an hour at the outset

tonymac · 06 June 2010, 10:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian

Well, arrivals this morning were: Willk from Ireland, BruceB from Scotland and GED from Wales.
Mr. Manning has taken some divers out but will be back in soon.
A pretty full set I'd say.

It's BruceB on the left of the photo and Willk on the extreme right.
Mrs. B. should be fairly obvious, and the other chaps name escapes me for the moment, but is a pal of Willks from Donegal.
Nice to put names from this forum to people isnt it?
Photo taken at the back of the grandstand at the IOM TT races.

We wuz there too!

The other guy's name is Dan. Thumper was also there. Thumper, Willk and myself all launched from Ardglass and came over together. None of us saw any racing though as the races were all delayed due to the conditions.

wavelength · 06 June 2010, 12:04

big big thank you to the local guys Ian and Brian. So nice to be met by RIBNET friends who ran us round douglas in their own cars, offered refuelling facilities if neccessary and generally made us feel welcome. Great when you have just come in out of thick (and b**** cold) fog.
We also met a good guy from Annan who was looking for boating buddies for ribbing in w.scotland-if you read this get yourself on here and make yourself known I am sure you will find people up for some trips

Cypman · 06 June 2010, 12:54

Dave
Thanks for the kind remarks, it was great seeing you all and putting faces to names. I hope Manannan's Cloak (fog) didn't cause you all too much trouble on the way home to England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.
Hope to see you all again.

Northern Tim · 06 June 2010, 13:03

Sounds like you boys had a good day.
One day I'll make the crossing myself when my boat is all grown up!

tonymac · 06 June 2010, 13:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by wavelength

big big thank you to the local guys Ian and Brian. So nice to be met by RIBNET friends who ran us round douglas in their own cars, offered refuelling facilities if neccessary and generally made us feel welcome. Great when you have just come in out of thick (and b**** cold) fog.
We also met a good guy from Annan who was looking for boating buddies for ribbing in w.scotland-if you read this get yourself on here and make yourself known I am sure you will find people up for some trips

Totally echo that BruceB. It was great to be met and with such generosity of spirit too. Many thanks Brian and Ian. Many thanks also to everyone who came along and made this a great trip.

GED · 06 June 2010, 16:57

3x 8mt Aircafts went from Conwy, 11 persons in total

one of the ribs was going to dive just off St Marys.
Set off from Conwy looked like a nice day but from the conversation with Holyhead coastguard we knew we were going to hit fog. For over 2 hrs cruising in what can only be like wearing a Tescos bag on your head, we lost
touch with the dive boat (faulty radio) after 3/4 of an hour searching we found them. Dave Manning jumped on their rib whilst they had a dive, me and the other rib went in to Douglas and tied up. We were met there by Brian (nice guy) who asked if we needed any thing, fuel,help, lift into town.....An hour later the dive rib pulled into the harbour and tied up along side of us.Some went into town and didnt get past the first pub

but at 3.30 it was time to head back. The dive boat but an extra 60lts of petrol in it and we all headed back out into the thick fog now with a spare hand held radio. Just 10 minutes into the passage back to Conwy the dive boat was in serious trouble

the filler pipe on the boat had broken off inside the console when the 60lts of petrol was put in and now it was in the bottom of the rib

all the dive equipment was awash in fuel and even the battery was completely covered under fuel, I got all divers of the boat whilst we delt with the problem. After 1/2 hour we were underway again, more 2hrs of fog.. this cleared just off puffin island and the last part of the trip was done in nice weather...Just off the Llandudno the dive rib ran out of fuel..well it would do its 60lts missing

(lucky I had plenty spare) got it going again and a short trip into Conwy, we where back

Today we spent time draining the boat hull of fuel and making good

tonymac · 06 June 2010, 17:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by GED

3x 8mt Aircafts went from Conwy, 11 persons in total

one of the ribs was going to dive just off St Marys.
Set off from Conwy looked like a nice day but from the conversation with Holyhead coastguard we knew we were going to hit fog. For over 2 hrs cruising in what can only be like wearing a Tescos bag on your head, we lost
touch with the dive boat (faulty radio) after 3/4 of an hour searching we found them. Dave Manning jumped on their rib whilst they had a dive, me and the other rib went in to Douglas and tied up. We were met there by Brian (nice guy) who asked if we needed any thing, fuel,help, lift into town.....An hour later the dive rib pulled into the harbour and tied up along side of us.Some went into town and didnt get past the first pub

but at 3.30 it was time to head back. The dive boat but an extra 60lts of petrol in it and we all headed back out into the thick fog now with a spare hand held radio. Just 10 minutes into the passage back to Conwy the dive boat was in serious trouble

the filler pipe on the boat had broken off inside the console when the 60lts of petrol was put in and now it was in the bottom of the rib

all the dive equipment was awash in fuel and even the battery was completely covered under fuel, I got all divers of the boat whilst we delt with the problem. After 1/2 hour we were underway again, more 2hrs of fog.. this cleared just off puffin island and the last part of the trip was done in nice weather...Just off the Llandudno the dive rib ran out of fuel..well it would do its 60lts missing

(lucky I had plenty spare) got it going again and a short trip into Conwy, we where back

Today we spent time draining the boat hull of fuel and making good

I hope the funnel I lent you didn't do the damage??

wavelength · 06 June 2010, 18:07

fog virtually all the way back-cleared a bit coming into Morecambe bay. Still 1hr50mins to Knott End from Douglas around 55nm cruising at around 27-28knots at 4800 rpm ish on the 90 suzuki/6m destroyer and around 80litres for the round trip

willk · 06 June 2010, 18:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian

It's BruceB on the left of the photo and Willk on the extreme right.

... some say that it's my default position

BruceB · 06 June 2010, 18:52

We just got back to Oban not long ago having stayed last night at Whithorn as planned.

Had fog, mostly quite thick all the way back across. Visibility ranged from about 50m to 200m with odd rare patches of up to a mile at times. Kept a very good lookout and ears peeled on the main passage north of IOM for large ships

Many thanks for the lift and assistance on the island, it was appreciated considering none of us had really ever met despite our internet personas.
I don't know what happened as we left though as everybody scattered as we left the harbour bouys, we stopped a few hundred yards later but by that time everyone had disapeared. We waited for a while then realised everybody could have easily passed us and carried on regardless. Did anybody go north at all? We did meet one very large RIB heading for Ireland that we gave a wave but it wasn't one of ours.
Still didn't find out who wilfish was apart from being told he was one of the participants actually on the IOM trip.

Maybe next year we might see a race and meet up again? I'll post some bits and bobs over the next few days

hadd · 06 June 2010, 19:04

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GED

3x 8mt Aircafts went from Conwy, 11 persons in total

one of the ribs was going to dive just off St Marys.
Set off from Conwy looked like a nice day but from the conversation with Holyhead coastguard we knew we were going to hit fog. For over 2 hrs cruising in what can only be like wearing a Tescos bag on your head, we lost
touch with the dive boat (faulty radio) after 3/4 of an hour searching we found them. Dave Manning jumped on their rib whilst they had a dive, me and the other rib went in to Douglas and tied up. We were met there by Brian (nice guy) who asked if we needed any thing, fuel,help, lift into town.....An hour later the dive rib pulled into the harbour and tied up along side of us.Some went into town and didnt get past the first pub

but at 3.30 it was time to head back. The dive boat but an extra 60lts of petrol in it and we all headed back out into the thick fog now with a spare hand held radio. Just 10 minutes into the passage back to Conwy the dive boat was in serious trouble

the filler pipe on the boat had broken off inside the console when the 60lts of petrol was put in and now it was in the bottom of the rib

all the dive equipment was awash in fuel and even the battery was completely covered under fuel, I got all divers of the boat whilst we delt with the problem. After 1/2 hour we were underway again, more 2hrs of fog.. this cleared just off puffin island and the last part of the trip was done in nice weather...Just off the Llandudno the dive rib ran out of fuel..well it would do its 60lts missing

(lucky I had plenty spare) got it going again and a short trip into Conwy, we where back

Today we spent time draining the boat hull of fuel and making good

"Looks like you all had a great day" good to see you all got back safely, dont now if iv got the balls too do the trip now after reading this thread.,