MX5Ireland

Hi all,

I did the round ireland yacht race this summer and made a wee video of it, it's on youtube if you fancy a look.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0Zx3RYXSg

looking good....

i was getting a bit seasick half through

Cool!
Have you travelled further overseas with it?

Cool video Pete, some cool choice of songs on there, suit it well.
I'm with Ivan though Sea sickness ahoy.
Looks bloody freezing a lot of the time too.

Fair played to ye, looks great fun..... especially when its sunny

Looks like a great voyage!

but all the rocking does'nt suit me even on youtube, I'm a landlover!

*ollie gets bucket and sticks head in same*

Hi all,

Cheers for the comments, it was a pretty amazing trip, the windiest round ireland race on record, the sunny bit lasted for half a day and apart from that it was blowing 40 - 50kts the rest of the time.

It's my 2nd round ireland, the first one was on a flat out carbon race boat & took 6 days (light wind the whole way) we did it this time in 4.5 days on a big old caravan of a cruising boat, we did the entire west coast in 24 hours.

As for aas the seasickness goes, it's just a matter of getting used to it, but I've been sailing all my life & have over 3000 miles of offshore experience (in the last 4 years) including 2 round ireland races, Ireland to Spain, bits of N.Africa, Greece & Italy, on top of that I race small sportsboats in the Irish National championships & was also in the European championships a few years back.

Almost forgot to mention that the girl on the boat is my babe, Emma & I proposed on the finish line, even though we hadn't washed or cleaned ourselves in over 4 days she still said yes, now that's love for ya