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Jason

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Thanks for all the help you've given me in regards to info on boat design (jr,nick,rich and everyone else.) I'm 17 and going to university in september to study Mech. Engineering. I thought that would be the best option to take as there is no Naval arcitecture course in Ireland and going to college in England is not only an expensive but nerve recking experience for a 17 year old.
Thanks again all,

(ps. I completely understand that every design career is ALL maths and I've studied extremley hard at maths inorder to bring up my standards, hopefully it paid off when I get my results)
 

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Jason: Cork or Dublin? I know the locality well, have house and boat in Rosscarbery W.Cork

Re my post below, please do not take what I said to be criticism of taking a Mech Eng degree. I think that's an outstanding choice of subject and I think you've made a great choice. What I meant was, think carefully before embarking on Mech Eng employment AFTER you qualify. Certainly in Dublin and London the fact you have a Mech Eng degree does not limit you to that type of work, that degree will give you a very wide choice of career paths including many that have nothing to do with Engineering. I come across Mech Eng graduates in all walks of life, I mean everything from lawyers to venture capitalists to computer firm owners (=Matts on this BB) etc etc. So best of luck

Oh and you will need the maths. At times (like about 80% of the time) you will think you are in the Maths lectures by mistake

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Interesting anecdote...

(Zzzz...Zzzz...Zzzz...) - great these bulletin boards, you don't get interrrupted!

I went to uni with a friend who did Mech Eng, and he changed to Structural.

After graduation i think he got a job with Ove Arup (No, he didn't design the Millenium Bridge!) but left, and worked for an Insurance Loss Adjuster for a while. He didn't like that at all, as he was doing very general stuff and just writing reports on valuation of claims and looking at people's damaged goods, giving technical reasons why the insurance company shouldn't pay out. He realised one day that he was in the wrong job when he went to do a survey for a claim for structural damage to a house. He could see as soon as he approached the house that this was subidence damage, not covered by the insurance policy which he had studied before leaving the office. Hoping that there would be no-one in, he knocked on the door (wanted to do the survery, and announce bad news by post) but the door was answered by an elderly lady. She was pleased to see him as she had been waiting for six months for someone to come and look at the house. He did the survey, and then steeled himself to go and announce the bad news. On entering the lounge, he saw that the elderly owner had prepared cakes, biscuits, and polished the silver tea service. Feeling increasingly awkward, he protested that he hadn't time to eat, but she was most insistent that he try some cake. Whilst he ate the cake, he was then told how the lady's husband had passed away some years ago, that the house was all she had left, and how relieved she was that her claim could be sorted out, and how long would it be before the cheque would be posted? I can't remember whether he bottled it or whether he broke the news to her there and then!

He left that job shortly after, went to work for a structural design consultancy (doing proper engineering again!) and the last I heard was absolutely loving it.
 

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Galway, (on the west coast of Ireland), Theres plenty of water out here, and doesn't all fall from the sky! I was sailing down in west Cork myself recently, I sailed from Baltimore to Crookheavan, ( out around the Fasnet rock/lighthouse) It's a beautiful area with plenty of ship wreaks for those intrested in diving.Theres little boating in galway city itself, theres about 1000 (roughly) who are involved 700 of those are based on the river and lough Corrib, ( a extremly beautiful but dangerous river and lakes) the other 300 sail, usually around the west coast but you wouldn't be surprised to find them all over Ireland and southern England Northern France.
Rosscarbery? is that near Skiberiean or Dingle?
 

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I don't know the West coast that well but I know Crookhaven-Baltimore-Cork very well, have sailed it the last 20 years. It is beautiful. Rosscarbery is 10 miles East of Skibbereen, 15 miles West of Kinsale.

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