Update - 15 April 2007

Easter Rally completed! Smallish turnout of just 5 boats - Three Swallows, Idle Eye, Four Winds, Selima & Baby Bubba [impending new member]. But it was attended in part or whole by around 25 members. Lazy day on Good Friday drinking on selective boats. Commodore tripped to Leitrim and back with full crew and only one incident - a Birchwood TS37 zipped out of Carrick did a u-turn around Three Swallows at full speed, nearly turning the boat over with its wash, and headed back into Carrick. On board were former Commodores Des Gillett & daughter Nina, neither of whom subsequently appeared on the rally at all - any explanations for this eccentric behaviour [funny or otherwise] should be emailed to the website [nsmyc@msn.com]

Saturday, cruise to Cootehall with excellent [if a tad pricy] barbeque in Henry's followed by a hectic night of socialising - the pub was jampacked! A sadly, poorly attended musical seisun took place earlier in the Bar courtesy of Tommy Gleeson, Andy Eile and other guest musicians.

Lazy but pleasant 'cure' in Henry's Sunday morning, in the company of the local parish priest and some of the 'casualties' from the night before - sorry Ger Doyle! Cruise to Leitrim where the highlight was the Commodore's private dinner, held on Selima but very generously provided by the skipper & crew of Three Swallows. So good was the craic, chat & singing that we didn't even get up to the pubs! As a result, Monday was unsurprisingly, a 'quiet' day allowing for full recovery to take effect.

Update - 27 March 2007

Well, yet another year and yet another Commodore [number 23] to lead us into hitherto uncharted areas, as well as those very regularly charted ones also! This years commodore Tom Gannon is being ‘aided’ by his vice commodore Ken Kingham so we can expect great things from this dynamic duo. 

The years first [Oct w/end] rally was a bumper with a cruise to Cootehall followed by private coach to the Moorings restaurant. Very nice meal. And then back to Henry’s for the craic! The following day it was off to Leitrim where a magnificent steak barbeque was laid on and much music and merriment ensued. Sadly your webmaster ‘moi’ [Mick Mackey, for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure] had to depart and pay an unscheduled visit to Sligo Hospital with a large chunk of steak stuck in my gullet! I recovered overnight and was able to have a little drink even, the next day. Well done Tom, both for the organisation and the ad hoc cheese & wine parties on Three Swallows!

Then we had the usual pre-christmas knees-up in the Bank pub in Dublin with a sparkling attendance of all the hoi-polloi.

Paddys Weekend appears to have been a low key affair, probably due to everyone getting their boats and things ready for the off. Hopefully Easter will see a rousing get-together of the faithful – no doubt an email will be winging its way to members from commodore Tom!

Oh, and we have another new club song [with apologies to Munster rugby fans] to the tune of the ‘torreador’ melody – start rehearsing…

Stand up and drink until you hear the bell,
Stand toe to toe, drink nice ‘n’ slow,
Keep drinking till the barman tells you go,
Keep that booze on the flow!
Until you hear that bell, that final bell,
Stand up and drink like hell!