Round Ireland Powerboat & RIB Challenge 2013 (RIPRC 2013)

[Bushrider]

Originally Posted by Gilles

I m planning to buy geko s helmet How are they ?
Dont Forget the gopro !!!!!

Gecko helmet is GREAT but far too expensive for just a few hours per year ..
It fits perfectly well and is extremely light !
GoPro is on board but still need to play a lot with it before RI

[willk]

Ribochet! (Nice hat ) And Bouncer!

[Bushrider]

Originally Posted by Gilles

bushrider, did you already thought about flatable tank,!

Yes - I will have in addition to the 90l inbuilt tank 2x AVON fuel bladders + 1x flexible Zapcat tank in the SR .
This gives me in total 170 l fuel on board .

[kerny]

Nice pics Jurgen, SR looks good and so does the dry suit

[Gilles]

That Will Be enough for the 175 nm ? I Will have my 200L under deck tank

+ 2x20 L i will have to walk a lot during the RI

[Gilles]

we re always good looking wearing our boat clothes !

Originally Posted by willk

Ribochet! (Nice hat ) And Bouncer!

[Bushrider]

Originally Posted by kerny

Nice pics Jurgen, SR looks good and so does the dry suit

Thanks to power of RIBNET and good service of wetsuitoutlet

Originally Posted by Gilles

That Will Be enough for the 175 nm ?

only under good conditions .. my Yamaha consumes 0.5 - 0.7l/km .
Still have space for 3x 20l plastic cans .
HMS considers a fuel stop on this segment which would help a lot !

[Gilles]

great, do you leave from UK or u going to ireland with the car ? i will leave from Milford haven, need to ask to HMS if slipway is ok and if we can let our cars + trailer in a secured area.
i already emailed all marinas, we wont find a lot of petrol on pontoon, but most marina are next to petrol station betwen 1 mile or 10 mins by walk.

Originally Posted by Bushrider

Thanks to power of RIBNET and good service of wetsuitoutlet




only under good conditions .. my Yamaha consumes 0.5 - 0.7l/km .
Still have space for 3x 20l plastic cans .
HMS considers a fuel stop on this segment which would help a lot !

[Bushrider]

Originally Posted by Gilles

great, do you leave from UK or u going to ireland with the car ? i will leave from Milford haven, need to ask to HMS if slipway is ok and if we can let our cars + trailer in a secured area.
i already emailed all marinas, we wont find a lot of petrol on pontoon, but most marina are next to petrol station betwen 1 mile or 10 mins by walk.

Most probably I will leave from Milford Haven by boat as the guys from the UK . HMS wrote me that secured parking is available there .
May be we can meet in Belgium or France to go to MH together ?
As for fuel - there´ll be land support and each participant can put fuel cans on the van / trailer . At least this was mentioned in the info material HMS sent .

[Gilles]

good news, we can meet in Belgium or try to take same ferry, i will probably leave on the 25th at night to take the ferry early in the morning than drive in the uk to Milford haven
yep we will have a van + trailer during the challenge. don t know how it will go.
to be honest i m well prepared except the epirb, maybe a friend could lend one ...
do you know if there s a lot of participants ?

Originally Posted by Bushrider

Most probably I will leave from Milford Haven by boat as the guys from the UK . HMS wrote me that secured parking is available there .
May be we can meet in Belgium or France to go to MH together ?
As for fuel - there´ll be land support and each participant can put fuel cans on the van / trailer . At least this was mentioned in the info material HMS sent .

[Bushrider]

lets see when the time comes closer - respectively before booking the ferry !
EPIRB I also do not have yet ...
Can be rented here :
http://www.adecmarine.co.uk/product_details.asp?p={EB2DACB9-BC93-408C-8997-13A35A3B3351}

[Ribochet]

Originally Posted by willk

Ribochet! (Nice hat ) And Bouncer!

Spot the Smurf

This is the first time that I have seen any VT of the trip - especially interesting as I was conned into giving a free berth to the "cameraman" for most of the event

[Paul Glatzel]

Hi, just to join this thread we are almost certain to go next year and are likely (subject to boat availability) to take our Botnia Targa as a support boat. I am particularly keen to go as in 2010 I circumvented the UK mainland but was unable to do the west coast of Ireland. (http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/great-br...ory-36352.html ) Going the whole way round Ireland would therefore be great.

My daughter Hannah will be going round in a rather brightly coloured RIB with Mo Montgomery-Swan.

Regards, Paul

[falcon0310]

Originally Posted by paul glatzel

hi, just to join this thread we are almost certain to go next year and are likely (subject to boat availability) to take our botnia targa as a support boat. I am particularly keen to go as in 2010 i circumvented the uk mainland but was unable to do the west coast of ireland. (http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/great-br...ory-36352.html ) going the whole way round ireland would therefore be great.

My daughter hannah will be going round in a rather brightly coloured rib with mo montgomery-swan.

Regards, paul

can i come with you please. Good cook on the go

[Gilles]

that s great !!!

[Alan Mckewan]

Hi All, very tempting as the last one I did was RB4M in 2001 and it would be a lot easier this time in my 7.5 Shakespeare / 225 Johnson BUT how do y'all get the money for such a trip? Om my calc it would be £10k plus just in fuel...

[HUMBER P4VWL]

Not £10k in this. But expensive to buy.

[whisper]

Originally Posted by HUMBER P4VWL

Not £10k in this. But expensive to buy.



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Nice dude Is that yours

[HUMBER P4VWL]

Originally Posted by whisper

Nice dude Is that yours

LOL I wish. It's HMS's sponsor boat for the event!

[Gilles]

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