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Pandemic Preservation Projects Save Sailors Sanity 11th March 2021 The newly-restored 1969 Nich 43 Hunza being sailed by Andrew Wilkes in Arrecife Harbour in the Canaries Credit: Maire Breathnach A busy ship, the old saying goes, is a happy ship. And a sailor in enforced idleness can be – at the very least - one decidedly grumpy so-and-so. Thus the multiple limitations of pandemic lockdowns have posed a challenge to people who are only kept happy by having at least one project on the go. But it has taken some ingenuity for normally active out-and-about sailing types to find an absorbing task that enables them to stay within the walls without going up those same walls. ....
1st March 2021 Maire Breathnach aboard Annabel J off the Kerry coast Credit: Andrew Wilkes The pandemic lockdowns divided the sailing world into those who complained constantly about all restrictions and did little or nothing, and those who made the best of what was permissible. Maire Breathnach and her husband Andrew Wilkes, with their challenging but rewarding 64ft steel-built gaff cutter Annabel J of 1996 vintage, had a busy 2020, with a voyage from Waterford to South America – which, like North America, they circumnavigated on a previous cruise – being temporarily curtailed in the Canaries with the need to replace part of their wooden mainmast. Lockdown arrived, they endured it in extremely restricted circumstances for two months, and then as some local sailing became possible, they cruised the Canaries in detail. ....
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. ....
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