My sailing Video

[Pete JB]

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

[Ivan]

looking good....

i was getting a bit seasick half through

[Steve]

Cool!
Have you travelled further overseas with it?

[mx5ash]

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.

[MX5Steve]

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

[Stig]

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*

[Pete JB]

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