A sailor's life for me

Fionn and I took a dander out to Dun Laoghaire this afternoon to see what we could see: and we saw this:

Photo © xia08

Check out the guy standing on the dock at her bow to get an idea of how insanely big she is. She's the Cinderella IV out of Zwartsluis, en route to the Monaco Yacht Show and she is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal her...</zaphod>

Anyway, good times were had on the West Pier. I tried taking some photos of the yacht, but the camera on the BlackBerry Pearl is woefully inadequate, although I did manage a few nice ones of the boy wonder, just to prove we were there.

At swim, two Scanlons

After a hot afternoon spent strolling around the city admiring the tall ships (and not purchasing any of the over-priced tat), what better way to finish the day than a quick dip in the sea?

Those of a nervous disposition may wish to avert their eyes, these photos contain copious amounts of pale man-flesh...

Fionn quickly lost any sense of propriety, and decided that sitting in the waves was the only way to go. He would have been in head first if he had his way :)

Water was lovely, although Greg and I did suit up. It feels very strange to be floating in Dublin Bay, watching the ferries leave the Port, and the Dart passing not 50 metres behind you. Good times, hopefully it'll be a regular feature of our summer!

swim results, sandycove 07/06

The mens results from last weekends open sea swims are available here.

7^th fastest time overall, which is nice :P

Looks like those early morning sessions in the pool with stevieD have started to pay off, although I'm currently experiencing a hiatus in that department as my TCD student card went AWOL during the exams last month, and I haven't been in the pool since :(

Sandycove swim

Steeled myself to head down to Sandycove yesterday afternoon for the opening sea swim of the season. It was an incredibly sunny day in south dublin, and the water was fantastic - I was expecting it to be much colder following my two west coast swims last weekend.

Two things spoiled the afternoon: sandycove parking (or lack thereof), I'll leave the car at home next time; and I got stung on the mouth (as my darling wife says, it serves me right for kissing jellyfish).

I'll post my time/placing as soon as they're available.