Passage Planning
Course Pre-requisites: This is an advanced course. Participants should have at least the Day/Coastal Skipper level of navigation. An understanding of plotting courses and calculating tides is essential.
An advanced navigation course to plan cruises at home and abroad. Syllabus includes crew and boat preparation, destination research including pilotage, chartwork and shoreside. Navigational planning- including chartwork, tide work, best routes and alternative destinations. Met. information before and during trip, safety aspects, customs and legal requirements.
Course covers passages to West Cork/Kerry, Scilly Isles, South Coast of England, Brittany and how to set up a passage plan for any voyage. Particiapants may book a package of 4 evenings or individual evenings.
Eddie English has been sailing these waters for over 30 years and has a detailed knowledge of these areas. Share in this knowledge and make your boating safer and more enjoyable.
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.
