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- Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: High Tides in Venice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10776
High Tides in Venice
Apparently Venice is experiencing unprecedented high tides this last few days causing immense damage in a spot where high water is a regular occurrence, so there must be something very unusual going down. First research stop was the tide tables for Galway, which maxed at 5.0 a few days ago, on say W...
- Wed Sep 11, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: True and Magnetic North to align after 360 years.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4299
Re: True and Magnetic North to align after 360 years.
Knotman, I am absolutely blown away by this ZERO variation thing as of 2019. I always knew at some level that it was a moveable feast but .............. All my active life as a navigator, on hills at first and later at sea, 10 degrees west was a given. There were many formulas / mnemonics used to re...
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Oileáin news ......
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3521
Oileáin news ......
Word reaches Oileáin of a kayaker in Mayo performing a commendable civic duty. Names have been withheld to protect the guilty - https://www.mayo.ie/news/major-clean-up-completed-at-dun-na-mbo-cliffs/ Latest change to Oileáin involves a small islet off Renvyle in Connemara, renamed, or more named (of...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rock on rockfall ............
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8561
Rock on rockfall ............
https://www.facebook.com/1137175843/posts/10218161813573620?s=100001022379830&sfns=mo This is the best yet of a recent rockfall on Slieve League. I lunched on that beach! Fred Cooney and I were inside a very very deep cave there in 1992 when there was a rockfall further inside the cave. Still t...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rock on Rockall, you'll never fall ........
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4925
Re: Rock on Rockall, you'll never fall ........
Fiona Brexit is of course a fascinating topic that would be both interesting and amusing in equal parts if it wasn’t so ominous for us here in Ireland, and we didn’t even get to vote for or against it. In the Rockall context, the UK argument is that the 12nm exclusive zone does apply around even lif...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:11 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Maurice Maxwell
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3788
Maurice Maxwell
Anyone with contact details for Mo?
*****7879 doesn't work.
Nor does ***thebrat*** seem to.
Thanks
DW
*****7879 doesn't work.
Nor does ***thebrat*** seem to.
Thanks
DW
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Project Oileain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3775
Re: Project Oileain
Oileáin a Dó is officially out of print. For a particular reason, I tried to buy a gansey load, but they weren't available. I got a couple of dozen so as at least to keep the last few in Ireland. The first edition 3,000 sold out in about a half dozen or so years. Oileáin a Dó 2,000 have sold out in...
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 6:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rock on Rockall, you'll never fall ........
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4925
Rock on Rockall, you'll never fall ........
Rockall is in the news again, and because I do remember researching the thorny legal issues some years ago for Oileáin 2014, I dutifully resorted to reading it (!) to see what it had to say on the subject. I was immediately reminded that Kevin O’Callaghan (a.k.a. GEO), first President of the Irish S...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 1:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Coastal Erosion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8111
Coastal Erosion
In the context of researching Wexford Harbour in connection with Ireland's most interesting sandbank - Rosslare Fort Island - I became aware that the island had formed by the erosion of the rinn or spit or penninsula that is Rosslare Strand. But I was blown away recently to discover that two half in...
- Mon May 27, 2019 12:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: ISKA website not secure
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7853
Re: ISKA website not secure
John
Oileain.org was reported to me just yesterday to be the same "not secure".
I was told you pay extra for greater cover.
About 50.00 p.a. was guesstimated but not investigated as I amn't bothered about it.
DW
Oileain.org was reported to me just yesterday to be the same "not secure".
I was told you pay extra for greater cover.
About 50.00 p.a. was guesstimated but not investigated as I amn't bothered about it.
DW