The Great Motorboat Tour

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Anyone else enjoying the videos? http://www.motorboatsmonthly.co.uk/specials/529991/latest-video-the-great-motorboat-tour

Haven't they been dead lucky with the weather, so far at least?

Anyone think they're doing the tour the wrong way round? I thought the traditional way of circumnavigating the UK was clockwise rather than anticlockwise so that you're not punching into the prevailing south westerleys on the leg south from Scotland through the Irish Sea
 
Yep.. been good to see some different parts of the UK coast.
I think I want to go boating when they do in 2012 ;)
 
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Anyone else enjoying the videos? http://www.motorboatsmonthly.co.uk/specials/529991/latest-video-the-great-motorboat-tour

Haven't they been dead lucky with the weather, so far at least?

Anyone think they're doing the tour the wrong way round? I thought the traditional way of circumnavigating the UK was clockwise rather than anticlockwise so that you're not punching into the prevailing south westerleys on the leg south from Scotland through the Irish Sea
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Thanks for the pointer mike. I didn't know about this series

AFAIK they are coming down the west coast of Ireland, so on the homeward leg from Mizen Head to (I guess, bearing in mind the boat is a 34er) Cork - Waterford- Milford Haven they will have the SW swell behind them

I think they were way too close/too fast to the anchored boats in a flat calm in Alum Bay at 1.25 in this clip...
 
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Anyone else enjoying the videos? http://www.motorboatsmonthly.co.uk/specials/529991/latest-video-the-great-motorboat-tour

Haven't they been dead lucky with the weather, so far at least?

Anyone think they're doing the tour the wrong way round? I thought the traditional way of circumnavigating the UK was clockwise rather than anticlockwise so that you're not punching into the prevailing south westerleys on the leg south from Scotland through the Irish Sea
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I have indeed. My apologies for the thread drift here but one can't but notice that all the wind farms were generating 0 watts during their journey.

Since they were making such good progress and started so early in the season I would have expected them to have completed their journey by now though?
 
AFAIK they are coming down the west coast of Ireland, so on the homeward leg from Mizen Head to (I guess, bearing in mind the boat is a 34er) Cork - Waterford- Milford Haven they will have the SW swell behind them
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Yeah but all the way south from Orkneys to around the west coast of Ireland they'd be punching a prevailing SW unless they're lucky of course and they get a NE! The Round Britain powerboat race goes clockwise, for example, and I was wondering why Shark Bay chose the opposite direction

I think they were way too close/too fast to the anchored boats in a flat calm in Alum Bay at 1.25 in this clip...
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The channel goes fairly close to Alum Bay as far as I remember and I guess they are just outside the starboard side of the channel
 
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I have indeed. My apologies for the thread drift here but one can't but notice that all the wind farms were generating 0 watts during their journey.
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Yes I saw that too. Bit embarassing for the warmistas
 
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The channel goes fairly close to Alum Bay as far as I remember and I guess they are just outside the starboard side of the channel
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It's a while since I've been there so i'll stand corrected if other Solent regulars say otherwsise, but they looked well south of where they could/should have been if blasting through. I reckon they started off very close to the Needles lighthouse (I mean, more to the south than if you were on an ordinary W-E passage past the Needles) and remained down to the south to get close to the shore and a nice view of Alum, and were way too close @1:25 to the anchored sailboat to be doing 25kts, imho
 
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Yeah but all the way south from Orkneys to around the west coast of Ireland they'd be punching a prevailing SW unless they're lucky of course and they get a NE! The Round Britain powerboat race goes clockwise, for example, and I was wondering why Shark Bay chose the opposite direction
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Yup agreed. It does look a strange chouice. They will have to be awfully careful with weather on that leg, and also down that massive lee shore with few bolt holes that the W coast of Ireland represents
 
Seahope said:
I have indeed. My apologies for the thread drift here but one can't but notice that all the wind farms were generating 0 watts during their journey.

Since they were making such good progress and started so early in the season I would have expected them to have completed their journey by now though?
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These guys started in April this year and completed the trip sometime in June (they werent travelling all that time though)
 
You are quite right Bojangles, the trip was started in April and finished in June - but you'll have to keep watching to see how they got on.

We have been charting the duo's progress since the October issue of Motor Boats Monthly (the Irish part of the trip will be described in the January issue of MBM) and the videos have been published to coincide with the magazine articles.

True, it was an unusual decision to do the trip anticlockwise, but John and Fionn opted to do it this way for a few reasons: firstly, because the area clockwise of their base in Falmouth is the section of the coastline that they know best and they wanted to start the trip looking out over new horizons, plus (although not hugely significant) they calculated that there is a marginal advantage of prevailing wind when going anticlockwise from a south coast starting point.

Finally, in terms of timing, they hoped it would mean they would be cruising the west coast of Scotland and Ireland in May and June, which they reasoned would give them the best chance of good weather. Were they right? Well all we can say is that it's unlikely on a trip of this magnitude that everything is going to go your way!

Sally Coffey
News and features editor
MBM
 
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