RIB Adventures🇮🇪 EP7 4k, A trip to historic St Patrick's Island by boat, RIB manoeuvres & mistakes
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- St Patricks Island is situated off the east coast of Ireland close to Skerries Harbour. Littered with history, ruins, legends and wildlife this little trip is a great day out for 3 old friends. Also in this video; getting to know the new 5.5 meter aluminium hulled 3D tender RIB, how she manoeuvres in port, how she handles at sea and some mistakes made with the fuel system are all covered in this film. This is a NIVIDIC 550 also known as a STEALTH 550 with a SUZUKI DF100 motor
Another fantastic video and you're not too far from me in this one. I'm staying in Rush for a little while. This looked like a lot of fun.
Not too far at all, in fact that Launch and recovery is at Rush sailing club as you probably know. Lovely place to live with coastal walks and a beach facing where you’d want for any wind on the compass. Thank you as always for your support and feedback. It sure was a lot of craic, (once the engine started😅)
excellent merci
Thank you 🙏 much appreciated
Im thinking of getting a rib and these videos keep inspiring me. Hello from Puerto Rico!!!!
@@Jassonrodz hello to you in beautiful Puerto Rico, what an amazing place that would be to own a boat. Best of luck with all your research and decisions along the way if you do pursue this plan. Thanks for your feedback 👍
@@VISTATREKKER so far i think ill be starting up with a highfield classic 290 with a suzuki 20hp and go from there! Thanks for your videos!
@@Jassonrodz Highfield seem to be good from the reviews I’ve read. Enjoy life afloat. Tiller boats of that size can be really good fun once there’s enough horses bolted on to get you and crew up on the plane.
@@VISTATREKKER yeah that is what i have seen but the next one i will like to be the patrol 420 or 460
Fantastic Robin! As a viewer who will likely never own or have to manoeuvre a boat, I still find it so engaging! Jaysus….a failing engine at sea, my god - not a fear that’s stopping you getting out thankfully! 😉 Yet another super island to see and to hear of its folklore - the good aul days are here and now for sure!! 🤩
Hi Miriam, thank you for sticking with me on this slightly divergent track of interest, even though the destination might be the same. I’m thinking of a little standby motor for ‘just in case’. It’s always a compromise, weight, space etc, but those west coast cliffs practically have ‘second engine’ written across their scarred faces.
To the good old days 🙌
@@VISTATREKKERthe scenario of an engine failing had never occurred to me! A spare tube and some small tools feel like light work now! 😊
@@MiriamKennedy redundancy for redundancy, backup for backups, when stuff breaks and you already planned for it there’s a little bit of glee that is worth the strain. Same when camping on a frozen peak I’m sure.
@@VISTATREKKER the spare superser is never too deeply packed in the backpack! 🤩
@@MiriamKennedy 😂💪🙌 winter ready
Great video of your little adventure. I have just got a Highfield 540 so looking forward to some of my own adventures around the Channel Islands. Can I ask where you got the steering knob attached to your wheel. They make it much easier and quicker to operate an outboard. Thanks Mark
The Highfield 540 was the one I really wanted with the deeper V and stronger transom for 115hp, but there’s no dealer here in Ireland so I’ve ended up happy with this one as 100is enough and the hull is that little lighter, but I do love the highfield. It took me a while to find a good wheel knob but it’s essential in my mind. Some knobs arrived from Amazon the size of a peanut. I’ll attach the link for mine below. It’s class, works, looks and fits well.
www.ebay.ie/itm/282778835940?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=5282-175127-2357-0&ssspo=Yy3Bl3p2Qea&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Ihkxbo8YQNu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Lovely trip and video. Thats what its all about! Those guide-ons are something i have been considering. How do you find them? Any disadvantage? Your recovery looked good considering the current
Thank you Denis. The guide poles I have are called floatem poles because the roller is buoyant and rises as the trailer descends in. The are immensely handy. Not just current but trying to launch into a tail wind running up the slip with waves breaking along the trailer as in the January Dawn trip in this series. To be honest I don’t understand how anyone does without them. Disadvantage is cost. These ones are beautifully welded and tough as you like but they are well over 200 sterling plus postage if I recall. I wasn’t going to bother until I put a scrape in the keel and that was that. The disadvantage is just that the lower elbow is sticking out wider than the wheel and also aft of it so it’s swinging wide as you turn which is worrisome on narrow roads particularly with high walkways either side that might catch it. In the end I’ve gotten used to treating the trailer as being that bit wider because it’s just essential to me to have them if I’m to launch and recover single handedly.
@@VISTATREKKERthanks for the advice. I self launch/recover and have been mostly fine but I did struggle more recently recovering at Doolin pier. It was my first time using Doolin and conditions were tricky. No damage except my ego, lessons learned: guide poles needed. 😂
Nothing like trailer work to deliver a good old ego dent. Probably the fact that my trailer does not really have rollers makes the trailer a less welcoming route for the bow, however I am now as hooked as a 6 year old still using stabiliser wheels on the bike😂. Today I recovered from the same slip at low water meaning I had to go off the side of the slip to avoid the step at the end of it and so I went in by the sand beside the slipway and then winched it up onto the trailer. Same deal with current and wind ripping across the trailer and only one set of feet willing to get wet (even on Father’s Day) so the guide poles were a gift yet again.
@@VISTATREKKER Ahh what a lovely way to spend Fathers day though! Yes, I've made the decision to go for the poles. I just pulled all my internal anodes and despite regular flushing they were quite dirty with all the hard water here.
@@denisryan4984 oh dear. Hard water here too…. Never thought of that.
Could you make a quick video and go through the equipment on your boat?
I will put this on the todo list 👍