Fastnet Rock

[tsunami]

Second day of our round Ireland trip. The fastnet is fantastic sight on a good day but not for the faint hearted when the weather starts to turn nasty!

[tsunami]

Somewhere off the west coast of Ireland, can't remember where! We were just happy to find a nice cosy pub for the night when we got in.

[tsunami]

Does fueling a petrol engine ever become any easier?? After hiking 2 miles to the nearest petrol station with 5 gallon drums it felt as if we hardly wet the bottom of the the main tanks. After much arguing about who was doing the next fuel run a friendly yacht owner that was fed up listening to us decided to give us a lift to the station with the tanks!! My view of yacht owners went up quite a bit that day!

[sirzap]

Joe,
How many days did you take to go round? Neil

[batfalcon]

What kind of fuel tank is this ? I can see it's stainless, but is it removable ?

[tsunami]

Hi there,
we did the trip as a holiday so it took 6 days, we weren't trying to beat any records or anything. As far as I know the record stands at 21 hrs 54 mins and it was done in a Rib about 3 years ago.
Batfalcon, the tank is actually aluminium and holds 56 gallons! I use it as a spare tank and it is removable for when I'm doing shorter journeys. The main tank in the boat is an underfloor 43 gallon stainless steel tank.

[dimitris]

Joe,


How about some close-ups of your RIB ?
Any photos from the building of the boat ?

Regards

Dimitris

[tsunami]

Dimitris I should have a few photos of the build of the rib, I'll have a look for them and I'll scan them in.