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East Ferry Cobh
Our shorebase is at East Ferry Marina Cobh. The Marlogue Inn is in the same complex. NB we are NOT AT EAST FERRY MIDLETON we are at EAST FERRY COBH!!
To get to East Ferry Cobh from the N25 (Main Cork Waterford Road)
Take the Cobh and Fota exit. Drive past entrance to Fota Wildlife Park and over Belvelly Bridge (between Fota and the Great Island)
Take a left after Belvelly Bridge, drive past the castle and after a quarter of a mile take the first left towards East Ferry Marina and Marloag. This (narrow) road brings you along the north shore of the Great Island. You come to a T junction after about 3 Miles turn right. After just 100m turn left for East Ferry Marina and the Marlogue Inn. After 300m the entrance is on the left follow the driveway and you will arrive at the car park!!
To get to East Ferry Cobh from the Cross River Ferry.
Turn right after the ferry and take the first left- (after 200metres) Follow this road for nearly 2 Miles and when you come to a cross roads go straight ahead (Give Way- it's a main road!) Keep on going straight and you come to a T junction at Cuskinny turn left. Proceed over the humpback bridge at Cuskinny and on up the hill to the small village of Ballymore (The High Chaparal Bar is on the right). Going through the village take a sharp right. Pass Ballymore Church on the right. Follow the road on for over a mile and turn right for East Ferry Marina and the Marlogue Inn. After 300m the entrance is on the left follow the driveway and you will arrive at the car park!! Food is available 12.30 to 21.00 at the Marlogue Inn.
Crosshaven
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Our Crosshaven courses are run from the Royal Cork Yacht Club. To get to Crosshaven from Cork City take the Carrigaline road from Douglas. Proceed through Carrigaline and on to Crosshaven. The RCYC is at the entrance to Crosshaven. There is plenty of parking outside the club. The first building is the Dinghy Centre (on the left of the gate) and then there is the main clubhouse building on the right - the door is at the far end. Check to see where in the RCYC the course will be running. Lunch is available in the club or in the village for day long courses.
Baltimore
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Our Powerboat Courses in Baltimore are run from Baltimore Sailing Club. Baltimore is situated just 6 miles beyond Skibbereen in South West Cork. The Sailing Club is in the village- it is a single story building on the harbour front. There is car parking nearby.
We also run Cruiser Courses from Baltimore. We are usually berthed at the Marina but new crews join in the friendly surroundings of Bushes Bar overlooking the harbour.
Crookhaven
Our Powerboat Courses in Crookhaven are run from Crookhaven Harbour Sailing Club. Crookhaven is situated just 6 miles beyond Schull in South West Cork. The Sailing Club is in the village- it is a two story building on the right hand side as you enter the village with the slipway directly across the road.
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.
