Wakey Wakey

05/07/2018

Wakey Wakey passing Bray Head now ⛵️ Next stop Wicklow

04/07/2018

Footage Aboard Wakey Wakey!! Volvo Round Ireland Yacht Race

03/07/2018

Wakey Wakey going well so far ⛵️

10/08/2017

Nearly there! ⛵️

09/08/2017

09/08/2017

Wakey Wakey Rounding the Fastnet now ⛵️

07/08/2017

http://www.rolexfastnetrace.com/2017-fleet-tracking-race-player

Rolex Fastnet Race

07/08/2017

Wakey Wakeys Crew for the Rolex Fastnet Race 2017

22/08/2015

22/08/2015

The crew after the race in the 24 hour bar!

18/08/2015

News from on board day 3:

We have Mojito in our sights, we may even be in front of her. Next 2 miles we will cross tacks + we are on Stb...
Crossed 200m ahead of Mojito 16:35... Very satisfying.
Monday 23:00 - Ewoks are back.
Downloaded the latest weather and tide files. Wind projected to fall to 4kts over the next 2 hours. Mojito is about 2 miles ahead due to her larger sail area for which she gives us time so not much to make up. Lying 71st overall and 21st in class. We are 5.5 nmiles from the Lizard and 25 from Lands End. Some serious tactical decisions to be made about the Scilly Isles TSS, races can be won or lost there. Gotta go, code 0 needs to go up... No rest for the wicked. First 24 hour run was 150 NMiles.

As of this post we are lying 18th in irc

17/08/2015

News from on board Day 2:

Change of watch at 12 and breakfast was served. Just under 120 miles run in first 24 hours. We jumped over 100 places overnight by staying in the north. Lots of boats around us and we are going faster than all of them atm. Couldn't ask for better weather and we are about to run out of sun block... Winds clocked round from N to NE then to SE and now it is in the SW. On watch Crew are not getting a minutes peace with spinnaker up, down, up again, code 0 up down and now up again. Everything works better with a bit of sunshine. Shane and Dave were working on the bow in the middle of the night with Skipper. They both have headlights with 2 red led lights. As they were working on their knees, skipper said it was like working with Ewoks...😄😄😄

17/08/2015

News from on board:

Yes that was some start. We were doing OK but then a ship came through and we had to motor out of the way. So we then had to sail back to where we were before the ship came and continue. About 25 mins lost which is so hard to catch up. Wakey Wakey late again - familiar feel to that one.

So we took the northern route as the southern one would be just a game of catch up. We had very little breeze and about 11pm we had to drop the anchor as we were going backwards in the tide. The anchor got caught around the keel and it took over an hour to free it. So we kept going backwards until we got it cleared.
Then the code 0 got messed up and that took 2 hours to fix so we lost more time there and all this in the pitch dark. I thought the Portland Bill would never stop flashing at us...
So we are playing the usual Wakey Wakey game of catch up but that's our favourite game anyway.
More when we get some coverage later. The weather is beautiful and conditions are super and it is a long race so anything can happen.

17/08/2015

Well what a start, so many beautiful boats all in one place, it's been an eventful few weeks leading up to this, but after all that preparation just to see your boat at the start of a race like the Fastnet, no words can explain the feeling. More photos and news to follow!

18/06/2015

Wakey Wakey in the centre of Cobh, enjoying the sunshine

15/06/2015

We have arrived!! Finally after a great race.... Safe to say everybody is ready to go to sleep....! But first to the bar 👍

14/06/2015

We are nearly there !!👍😁⛵️⛵️

12/06/2015

Wakey-Wakey of to a great start .....

25/04/2015

Finally our trophies from last years Isora racing.....

20/01/2015

We've been accepted for entry to the Fastnet Race in August! Practice practice practice!

19/12/2014

We've won a Turkey!!

The 50ft Mermaid IV wins the DSBC Turkey shoot 2014, but Wakey Wakey was a close 3rd place!

Check out
http://afloat.ie/sail/events/dbsc-turkey-shoot/item/27365-mermaid-iv-wins-dbsc-turkey-shoot-for-second-time

Winds gusted up to 44–knots during racing

23/11/2014

Great end to a great season

23/11/2014

A fantastic night last night at poolbeg yacht clubs dinner dance!!

05/09/2014

Bright and early in Pwllheli marina

02/09/2014

Great weekend in Greystones, and races to and from the marina

23/08/2014

A great first Isora race today!

19/08/2014

Very Wakey Wakey!

17/08/2014

Couple of photos of the Codling Race