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2nd December 2020

Dublin Old Gaffers Will Learn of How Not to Sail Round Britain & Ireland, & of Three Significant Boats

Harry Donegan's famous Gull and her successor Sibyl off Cobh – both boats are somehow involved in the story of how the "genuine fake ketch" Betty Alan has so far failed to sail round Britain and Ireland

Frances Edwards & Ed Maggs are clearly the most incompetent cruisers, as Ed says himself, for they have completely failed in their modest ambition of a circumnavigation of the British Isles by stalling on the West Coast of Ireland, and settling down for good in South Kerry, as outlined in Afloat.ie here

Ed will tell the complete story on Zoom on Thursday, December 10th for the Dublin Bay Old Gaffers Association and their guests – the true tale of how they ended up here, and talking along the way of three boats which contributed to this gravitational pull: Sibyl of Cumae, a Fife 35 foot linear rater, at one time owned by Henry Donegan Jr., son of the famous Harry; Talis II, owned by Ed's Dublin-born grandfather, which has so far survived three complete sinkings; and Betty Alan, their own boat, a "genuine fake of a gaff ketch", now based in Glengarriff.

Betty Alan, the "genuine fake gaff ketch", racing at Mullaghmore Regatta in Sligo. On a round Britain and Ireland cruise, she managed ton get as far north as Donegal, but was irresistibly drawn back to Kerry. Photo: Brian Mathews

DBOGA Fundraising for Howth RNLI: Pre-Covid, DBOGA listened to talks together at Poolbeg while passing the Yellow Welly around for minimum €5 donations. In Zoom Land, that can't be done, but the RNLI still needs funds.

Please click on www.justgiving.com/fundraising/DBOGAHowthLifeboat and thank you.

The details of this Zoom meeting are:

Topic: Ed Maggs Talk  
Time:  Thursday, Dec 10, 2020, 20:00
Link to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82770821027
Meeting ID: 827 7082 1027

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The most significant events for the Half Ton Class has been the annual Half Ton Cup which was sailed under the IOR rules until 1993. More recently this has been replaced with the Half Ton Classics Cup. The venue of the event moved from continent to continent with over-representation on French or British ports. In later years the event is held biennially. Initially, it was proposed to hold events in Ireland, Britain and France by rotation. However, it was the Belgians who took the ball and ran with it. The Class is now managed from Belgium.