Author Archives: Áine Ní Neachtáin

Fodhla Sail to Ireland’s Eye on New Moon July 2015

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Fodhla crew enjoyed a great Day Sail on New Moon heading north around Lambay Island before anchoring off Ireland’s Eye for lunch.. The girls then landed on Ireland’s Eye where they climbed up to the highest point, spotting many young downy seagull chicks en route. Skipper Brain Welsh explained the various types of cardinal and […]

Eriu boating and campfire. Eriu restarts Wed Aug 19th 7pm – 9pm.

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Eriu cubs enjoyed their last night of boating and a little campfire with songs and s’mores at sunset. Special thanks to Sean and Eoghan Keegan for instructing the Sixers and Seconders group in basic Kayaking skills for the last 3 weeks. Also to Skipper Brian Welsh for always being so willing to bring cubs out sailing […]

Evening Sail and BBQ Social Fri 5th June

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Míle buíochas to the Parents Committee for organising, and to the DMYC for hosting, the fantastic Summer Evening Sail and BBQ on Fri 5th June. Enthusiastic parents boarded the flotilla of boats for a really wonderful sail down towards Dalkey Island in warm summer sunshine and decent wind. Plenty of conversation and good questions were […]

Sea Cub Marine Challenge

Eriú News

On Wed July 9th, 8u Calafort hosted the first Sea Cub Marine Challenge. We were delighted to have enthusiastic teams from 3 Participating Packs: Dalkey Sea Cubs (3rd Port), Banba Sea Cubs (8ú Calafort, Sat Pack) and Eriú Sea Cubs (8ú Calafort, Wed Pack)

48 cubs took part, and each cub chose 2 of the following events: knotting; heaving a line; swim race with life jacket; swim race without life jacket; dinghy single paddle race. All cubs joined the fun of novelty team dinghy race, keeping their egg “hostage” safe and dressing their pirate captain!

Skipper Brian Welsh and Peadar Tobin kept an experienced eye on proceedings and ran the VHF safety station from New Moon and Pandora. Both boats were dressed all over lending a real sense of occasion to the night and the DMYC kindly opened their bar and viewing deck facilities so parents, supporters and siblings could make a lovely evening of the event.

Many thanks to visiting leaders, helpful parents, Gasóga and Fodhla volunteers who kindly helped out to make the night such a success.

Eriu Summer Camp Lough Dan

Eriú News

Eriu Cubs enjoyed a fantastic Summer Camp over the weekend of Fri 13th – 15th June. We camped with 18 adventurous  cubs in the Beaver Field at Lough Dan and made great use of the Obstacle Course and Water Slide that skirted our campsite. On Fri night we started our Pioneering Project to teach the cubs some lashings and build a platform tent to hang out in during the camp. We started our campfire early to avoid the midgees and the cubs enjoyed toasting marshmallows and singing songs. Saturday morning we finished our Platform Tent and then set off on the long but lovely Lough Dan Loop hike, crossing two rivers en route. Sat night the Sixers and Seconders slept out in a bivvy up on a nearby hillside and the main camp enjoyed another campfire and more marshmallows. Sunday morning was glorious, warm and sunny, perfect for our crate building, archery and raft building. Then the cubs enjoyed the water slide before striking camp and heading home tired but happy. Thank you to all the helpful parents and our great assistants.