Fastnet Rock

tsunami · 13 September 2001, 16:56

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 · 13 September 2001, 16:59

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 · 13 September 2001, 17:05

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 · 13 September 2001, 20:15

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

batfalcon · 14 September 2001, 06:09

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

tsunami · 17 September 2001, 11:58

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 · 19 September 2001, 15:04

Joe,

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

Regards

Dimitris

tsunami · 20 September 2001, 07:39

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.