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#boatjumble – Greystones harbour in County Wicklow is the latest venue for a boat jumble sale. It's time to empty out that shed and bring along all your old marine items and flog them to willing buyers in this unique sale (car boot style sale).

The marine sale will take place on Sunday 30th September in the Beach House Car Park at Greystones Harbour.

Entry fees are €10 for cars, €15 for jeeps and vans with room also for maritime clubs/commercial operators at €25.

All proceeds from the event will go to the Greystones RNLI Fundraising Branch to aid Wicklow Lifeboat.

Gates open at 9am and we will operate on a first come first served basis. Family entertainment will be provided in the field and there will be a BBQ and live entertainment in the beer garden.

For further information contact Ciarán Hayden 087 8045651, Gordon Hunter 087 2590175 or Joe Taylor 086 2601918.

Published in Greystones Harbour

#JUMBLE – A Boat Jumble in Cork city planned for this weekend at Custom House Quay has been 'postponed' following organiser concerns about a 'low level of participation'. The plan is to tweak the event format to encourage a greater take up and 'reschedule for a new date' according to a Boat Jumble spokesman.

Published in Port of Cork
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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago