As I write this I am in my bunk aboard the team daft yacht. We have 12 hours to go until our race around Ireland begins. The other competitors are all around us and I am starting to feel the fear! I remember this feeling from before. Fear is how I have just described...
Mick harnessed up 12 hours into our sail. The halyard from our smaller head sail which we had just hoisted had come away from the top of the sail in rough waters and quickly strengthening winds off the south coast of england. The solution was to go up the mast and get...
My mate John O’Regan just sent me a message on Facebook to remind me that this day three years ago we were about to finish the everest marathon. Today I am in the middle of the English Channel sailing a 40 ft yacht back from France for the Round Ireland yacht...
After 24 hours of waiting and wondering in Hamble we are back on the water and sailing to Ireland. The purpose of our pit stop was to lift the boat out and have our sponsors branding applied to the hull. But with the tide disappearing at speed we were in danger of...
It’s all systems go with all of us in Team Daft! We have had nearly all the sail combinations up and down, we have tried different variations of our kit options and I have got going with my audible compass. It is a seriously powerful boat and using the audible...
Today we stepped onto the Team Daft yacht for the first time. It is massive and unlike anything I have ever sailed on. Below deck doesn’t even have flooring and the sleeping quarters are just canvas cots with rope pulleys so we can change the angle and avoid...
Mark, Mick and reserve skipper Ian Travers file a video report from the ferry on their way to pick up the Team Daft Class 40 in France. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdEl7uJsjc]
Daft Media Group has today announced plans to sponsor a racing boat in this year’s Round Ireland Yacht Race. Daft will be backing blind adventurer Mark Pollock and Air Corps pilot Mick Liddy, in their bid to make offshore sailing history as the first...
