Facilities
Having spent nearly 30 years with our base on the waterfront in the town centre of Cobh we have kept pace with the times and expanded to a number of locations for our courses - with our main home base at East Ferry Marina in Cobh. We have our offices in Cobh run by our customer services manager Jo English. Our contact details remain the same and we have invested in the most up to date office technology to improve the communication with customers.
We run shorebased courses at the Royal Cork Yacht Club and East Ferry in Cobh (As well as other locations from time to time) Classes are in warm comfortable surroundings with bar and coffee facilities on hand. We have a very special expertise in this area having run shorebased courses since the late 1970's and we have over two thousand happy graduates from our shorebased courses.
Our main Cork Harbour base is at East Ferry Marina with the excellent shorebased facilities - good berths alongside, showers and changing rooms and of course the Marlogue Inn - good food and drink in beautiful surroundings - great to enjoy a drink on the patio watching the comings and goings afloat. This has to be the most tranquil setting for any marina in northern Europe.
We run shorebased courses, dinghy sailing courses, powerboat courses and cruiser courses at East Ferry.
We use two main bases for our cruiser courses.Our Kinsale base is at the Trident Marina with the Fishermans Wharf Bar ashore.
Our Powerboating courses are run from four locations. Our main base at East Ferry Marina in Cobh, the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven, and Baltimore and Crookhaven in West Cork.
Eddie English Blog
Underwater cable Aghada to Cuskinny
One Thursday evening at the very start of February a group of seafarers decended on my local, “The Roaring Donkey”, in Cobh and lashed into copious quantities of gin and tonic. As the conversations began to flow it transpired that they were the crew of the Norwegian vessel, “Elektron”, docked at Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke. Not just any ordinary ship but a specialist vessel for cable laying – she was here to lay the cable from Aghada Power Station to Cuskinny on the Great Island in Cork Harbour.
