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14th August 2023

Maritime Exhibition on Wexford to Raise Funds for County’s RNLI Lifeboats

A fundraising exhibition in aid of Co. Wexford’s five RNLI lifeboat stations will share in the proceeds from the event held in the Stella Maris Centre in Kilmore Quay on Saturday 26 and Sunday, 27 August.

The exhibition 'A Maritime History of Co. Wexford' will be hosted by Rosslare Harbour Maritime Heritage Centre and will feature displays from the maritime heritage centre. Also on display will be the John Power Collection with other contributors from around the county.

Admission to the exhibition in Kilmore Quay is free of charge and will be open on both days 11 a.m to 5.30 p.m.

People are asked to make donations during their visits while local businesses and groups are also being encouraged to support the RNLI fundraiser.

The fundraiser is to benefit the county’s two offshore lifeboats stationed at Rosslare Harbour and Kilmore Quay and three inshore lifeboats located at Courtown Harbour, Wexford and Fethard-on-Sea.

The exhibition will span a period of 200 years through artefacts, photographs, paintings, drawings and models of sailing ships, steamers and of course the lifeboats.

More from the Wexford People on the fundraiser which is also to feature the development of the Port of New Ross along with the building of the replica of Dunbrody which was built on the banks of the Barrow in 1998.

Published in RNLI Lifeboats

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Maritime Museum Table Quiz & Wine Tasting Fundraiser

#TableQuiz- Have fun while raising funds for the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dun Laoghaire, where a Table Quiz & Wine Tasting event is to be held in the Eblana Club, next Thursday 10th October.

The evening event (starting at 7.30pm) begins with wine-tasting by Mitchells of Glasthule. An hour later the table quiz gets into action and the bar will also be open.

Eblana Club is located on Eblana Avenue which is off the town's Marine Road. Tickets cost €10 per person / €40 per table and payable at the door.

As this event is not currently on the NMMI's website, for further details email: [email protected] or tel: (01) 2143 964.

For other information about the museum which has a cafe, gift shop and library (members-only) plus opening times visit: www.mariner.ie

Published in Boating Fixtures

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Fundraiser to Recreate Titanic's Last Meal

#TITANIC - Every seat has been snapped up for a special black-tie dinner in Galway next month that will recreate one of the last meals served on the Titanic.

Two menus recovered from the ship have provided the inspiration for the RNLI Galway lifeboat fundraiser, devised by self-described Titanic buff and culinary arts lecturer Noel Loughnane.

The extravagant 11-course meal, at €100 per head, includes such mouth-watering delights as filet mignon, foie gras, salmon with mousseline sauce and Calvados-glazed duckling - just as the ill-fated ship's first-class passengers would have enjoyed.

The Irish Times has more on the story HERE.

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About the 29er Skiff Dinghy

The 29er is a one-design double-handed, single trapeze skiff for youth sailors.

There is an active class in Ireland, just one of the 38-countries from across all continents now racing the high-performance skiff.

The 29er is one of the latest dinghy classes to arrive in Ireland and has a 50/50 split between boys and girls.

The class like to describe the boat as "The most popular skiff for sailors who want to go fast!".

Derived from the Olympic class 49er class and designed by Julian Bethwaite the 29er was first produced in 1998.

Two sailors sail the 29er, one on trapeze.

The 6.25-metre high rig features a fractional asymmetrical spinnaker; a self-tacking jib decreases the workload of the crew, making manoeuvres more efficient and freeing the crew to take the mainsheet upwind and on two-sail reaches.

The 15.00 m2 spinnaker rigging set-up challenges crews to be fit and coordinated, and manoeuvres in the boat require athleticism due to its lack of inherent stability and the high speed with which the fully battened mainsail and jib power up.

The 74kg weight hull is constructed of fibreglass-reinforced polyester in a foam sandwich layout.

The fully battened mainsail and jib are made from a transparent Mylar laminate with orange or red Dacron trimming, while the spinnaker is manufactured from ripstop Nylon.

The mast is in three parts - an aluminium bottom and middle section, with a polyester-fibreglass composite tip to increase mast bend and decrease both overall weights, and the capsizing moment a heavy mast tip can generate. Foils are aluminium or fibreglass.

About the ILCA/Laser Dinghy

The ILCA, formerly known as the Laser, is the most produced boat in the world, with 220,000 units built since 1971.

It's easy to see why the single-handed dinghy has won the title of the most widely distributed boat of all time.

The Laser is a one-design dinghy, the hulls being identical but three rigs that can be used according to the size and weight of the sailor.

The class is international, with sailors from 120 countries. The boat has also been an Olympic class since 1996, being both the men's and women's singlehanded dinghy.

Three rigs are recognised by the International Laser Class Association (ILCA):

ILCA 4: sail of 4.70m2

ILCA 6: sail of 5.76 m2

ILCA 7: sail of 7.06 m2