Irish Cruising Club Fly the Flag for Responsible Cruising
20th February 2021
Irish Cruising Club s Honorary Editor Maire Breathnach at the helm of the Swan 42 King of Hearts at Cape Horn.
The Irish Cruising Club has been producing a printed Annual collating its members doings afloat and ashore through logs and narratives for ninety years now. And while these days this substantial collection is in circulation before Christmas as a matter of course - thanks to the succession of Honorary Editors being notably on top of production technology and sticking to a rather fierce deadline - it isn t until after the Club s AGM in February that any of it goes public, following which the many logs – and particularly the award-winning ones – are available online on the club s website.
16th December 2020
Summer evening sunshine greets the Galway Bay Sailing Club fleet as they welcome home the Transatlantic-voyaging ketch Danu (at centre) at Kilronan in the Aran Islands at the end of July 2020
Credit: Vera Quinlan
Galway Bay Sailing Club, comfortably ensconced in their fine clubhouse at Renville New Harbour near Oranmore at the head of Galway Bay, can look back at many ups and downs during the fifty years of sailing development they ve experienced from small beginnings in the city in 1970, until now they re one of the pre-eminent clubs on the West Coast in all areas of sailing.
Yet even the most sadistic theatrical director would scarcely have green-lighted a storyline in which – just as the final details for a year s long Golden Jubilee celebration in 2020 were being put into place by Commodore John Shorten and his committee – the Black Beast from the East, otherwise the Pandemic, crept into place to dominate everyone s lives and blast lovingly-crafted pro