Sunset over Malahide Estuary at "Many Waters"
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The end of another boating season…
Friday, November 4th, 2011Rowing Regatta at Broadmeadow – A Great success!
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Neala troop of Malahide placed 2nd at Sea Scout rowing regatta,Broadmeadow
116 Sea Scouts from across the County of Dublin and North Wicklow took part in this years annual Sea Scout Rowing regatta held on Broadmeadow, Malahide on Sunday 23rd October. The regatta would normally take place in Dunlaoghaire in the month of September but had to be canceled three times due to high winds across the bay.
Broadmeadow is more use to having sail on the water for regattas , but seven slick east coast skiffs launched to begin the races. Crews prepared ,the course was set and the races began on time. Seven races took place over the one kilometer course. Crews of five including the coxswain instructions leaned hard and pulled strongly to the finishing line. Parents and friends lined to course and shouted their encouragement to row harder and faster.
Malahide 1st place u 17 crew
Several Malahide crews were placed along with three first places in the under 14years , under 17 and under 20 pair oar cox. For a third year in a row the Malahide under 17 crew won the Woodlatimer ( Dick Vekins memorial trophy) race. This race has been competed for since 1914 uninterrupted except for the years of the 1st and 2nd World Wars.Congratulations to all Malahide and guest crews who made the day a Great Sucess!
Malahide 1st place u14 skiff crew
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- Neala troop of Malahide placed 2nd at Sea Scout rowing regatta,Broadmeadow
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- Malahide 1st place u 17 crew
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- Neala Troop of Malahide Sea Scouts placed 2nd at Sea Scout Regatta,Broadmeadow
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- Malahide crew display their medals at Sea Scout Rowing Regatta,Broadmeadow
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- Malahide 1st place u14 skiff crew
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- Bray Sea Scouts 2nd in u17 Woodlatimer skiff race
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- Sea Scouts from across,Dublin and North Wicklow
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- Bray Sea Scouts,finish 2nd place in U 17 skiff race in Coleen Ban
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- Busy scene on the shore at Sea Scout Rowing regatta on Broadmeadow
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- Ready ! for next race
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- Mlahide u 17 crew display their trophies after winng 1st place at Sea Scout rowing regatta,Broadmeadow,Malahide
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- Malahide u14 crew presented their medals
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- Rowing crewd get ready for next race at Broadmeadow, Malahide
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- Dollymount load boat for homeward journey
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- Malahide u17 crew celebtate 1st over the line at Broadmeadow
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- Malahide neala crew celebrate their win at the Sea Scout rowing regatta
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- Sea Scouts from Bray , Co.Wicklow
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- Malahide neala troop wave to their friends in Malahide at rowing regatta
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- Under 20 pair oar cox Malahide crew
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- Coxswain Dr.Eoghan Lavelle presents Malahide u17 crew 1st place with Woodlatimer(Dick Vekins Memorial tropy)
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- Malahide under 20 pair oar cox skiff crew. 1st place
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- Malahide crew celebrate their win at the Sea Scout rowing regatta
Senior Seamanship – Sir William Fry Cup 2011
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Malahide team at the Senior Seamanship - Fry Cup 2011
Six senior teams from across Dublin Sea Scout groups took part in this year’s Senior Seamanship competition Fry Cup in 8th Port Dunlaoghaire den on the West Pier.The cup was keenly competed for from all teams who have been training for the past several weeks.
Teams’ were examined in boat work , uniform inspection,communication,weather,safety,knots ,splicing & whippings, rigging and anchoring. Boat work was carried out in the east coast skiff with a coxswain and a crew of five.The examiners reported a very steady standard across all groups.
Sea Scouts from across Dublin gather in Dunlaoghaire for Fry Cup
This years winners for the first time in their groups history was 7th Port Howth . Congratulations to their leaders and the Howth team who scored the highest marks. Malahide were placed well and thanks to their leaders who have being training them for last couple of weeks.
Howth Sea Scouts - winners of Fry Cup 2011
Welcome to Scouting
Friday, September 30th, 2011Seventeen volunteer leaders took their first step in their journey to achieve Woodbadge . Stage one of the course began last night in the Ward room of the Scout Den. Guest volunteers from Raheny and Bayside joined the Malahide crew in completing Stage one of a six part course which covers basic scout skills, event & programme planning,personal development and leadership management. Their on going efforts enhances the quality of Scouting that is delivered to the young people in both Malahide and the Scout County of Reachra.
New Volunteer leaders who attended Stage 1 "Welcome to Scouting" recently in the Malahide Scout Den
Did this catch your eye?
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Malahide Sea Rangers of IGG on the "The Lady Grania" R.Liffey,Dublin Port 1959
In last Saturday’s Irish Independent supplement 1950-1954 rolling back the years had many interesting photo’s from around Ireland in the fifties. Well what caught our eye was a photo of Malahide Sea Scouts on board the “The Lady Grania” a Guinness ship opposite the Customs House on the River Liffey.The caption read members of the north Dublin troop pictured in 1959 modeling their new uniforms.
The eight girls in the photo were all members of the Malahide Sea Rangers of the Irish Girl Guide Association a section within IGG.Sea rangers were established in Malahide (The Lady Grania), Dollymount (SRS Queen Elizabeth 2),Dunlaoghaire,Bray,Ringsend,Dodder and Howth.The ranger’s named their sections after naval and merchant ships.Correspondence between rangers and ships were encouraged.
Over the years the the units twinned with established Sea Scout groups and would meet in their dens and on occasions have joint activities. The girls in the photo are named Ann Fry,Barbara Boyd,Margaret Dawson,Hilary Norton,Ruth McMullan,Diana Gilbert,Vivian Morrison and Vivian Wakely.Some of the girls would have had brothers both in the modern sea scout troop 9th Port Malahide and the old 15th Dublin Malahide land scout troop.
Unexpected cancellation!
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Making way in Dublin Bay
Unexpected cancellation of this years rowing regatta was not just once but three times. Whatever happened to when the students go back to school in September the weather gets better? Our near centennial regatta has had its interruptions over the years since its beginnings in 1914.The years during both the First and Second World Wars , Sea Scouts went abroad as volunteers as able sea men , signalers and commissioned officers in the Merchant and Royal Navy .
The high winds of recent days would make it impossible to get crews out on the water. All sections had been training and looking forward to the regatta.However the up and coming Long Distance Skiff Race on Saturday 17th September is expected to get a start. Best of luck to the Malahide crews. Congratulations to the girls in the Neala troop who came third in the junior seamanship competition the Hamill Cup held recently in Howth.
Sea Scout Rowing Regatta
Camping in VIRGINIA
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Visitors Day
We got a good site for our annual standing camp ,elevated,and over looking Lough Ramor. 55 scouts and 14 leaders of the Wednesday night troop camped from the Friday 5th August to Sunday 14th of August on the side of Lough Ramor,Virginia , Co.Cavan.. The programme for the week included kayaking , rowing , power boating , campcraft,outdoor cooking ,inter Watch competition,ground training,sleeping under canvas,night hikes ,navigating,wide games ,cycle hikes ,and a day trip to Belfast by coach.
Campcraft
The bigger camp craft projects would need certain skill to construct.Good lashings, get the balance right, plenty of patience and the pleasure of seen it been finished. Everybody gets involved whether its the slow netting on a sisal gate to achieving the perfect balance weight to see that it works.
Scouting has that difference about it when camping and working in the outdoors. Here young people develop life’s skills ,that they will look back on as a great experience and having the best of fun.
Easy does it
Malahide Sea Scouts attend the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Rinkby, Sweden
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Malahide contingent , depart St.James Terrace to the 22nd World Scout Jamboree
Twenty two leaders and scouts from Malahide attend the 22nd World Scout Jamboree been held at Rinkaby (near Ahus) in the South of Sweden. Scouts traveled from Dublin by air on Monday and Tuesday 25th/26th July 2011. The official opening commenced on Wednesday 27th July with 39,000 participants from 160 different countries. The camp will finish on the 8th August .
The Jamboree promise to be a very memorable event .A full weeks programme of fun, educational and challenging activities ,which draw on the patrol system. Opportunities on discovering new cultures , global development issues ,respect for oneself and others ,the environment , health,peace and community development.
Malahide leaders who will represent the group at the Jamboree as IST (International Service Team)
Irish Sea Scouts at the 1st World Scout Jamboree 1920
Malahide scouts over the years have been well represented at World Scout Jamborees which go back as far 1920 when former Group leader Mr. Jack Webb attended the 1st World Scout Jamboree in Olympia, Kensington, London between 30th July to 8th August 1920. In 1957 the 50th Anniversary of Scouting also known as Jubilee year the 9th World Scout Jamboree was held in Sutton Park, Birmingham, England and 18 scouts and leaders from Malahide attended.
52 years ago – a Hydrographic Survey Project in BROADMEADOW
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Sunrise over Broadmeadow, Malahide
Malahide Yacht Club refurbishment of their Broadmeadow Club house had a start back in 1959 with a survey carried out by Sea Scouts
Broadmeadow Water is the impounded semi-tidal area of the inner estuary at Malahide, created by the construction of the Viaduct on the Dublin / Belfast Railway line. Malahide sailing Club started in 1957, with its club house on the outer estuary, where the larger boats were kept. In 1958 the club was considering using the Broadmeadow area of safe water for dingy sailing.
Cecil Woodman, the Sailing Club Secretary, was also Scoutmaster of the 15th Dublin (Malahide) Troop. In that capacity he had heard about a hydro graphic survey of the Carnadoe lakes on the Shannon conducted for the Inland Waterways Association by Rover Sea Scouts of Port Dublin (Dollymount). There were no Sea Scouts in Malahide at the time, so he contacted the Dollymount Rovers and asked if they would undertake a survey of the Broadmeadow for the Sailing Club.
The Rovers were delighted with opportunity for another interesting and challenging project, which required the acquisition of some new skills. A fair amount of preparation was required, and the practical work was undertaken in Summer 1959. Preset transits taken from Air Corps aerial survey photos (by kind permission) were transferred to 6” OS maps and Rovers learned to use a sextant to obtain horizontal angular bearings between pre-chosen fixed points. But of more practical importance later, they had the use of an outboard motor – a piece of equipment pretty well unknown in Sea Scouting at that time!
The job was completed, the Sailing Club was very pleased with the result and built a club house and a boat slip on the Broadmeadow, which are still used regularly today for the dingy sailing programme
Training for Bike Week!
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Ready to start at the Banks car park,Malahide
The leaders and cubs were out in strong numbers on Tuesday night preparing for the their annual Broadmeadows cycle on Fathers day this Sunday and the beginning of bike week on Saturday 18th June .
Bases were set up . Cubs had to negotiate 4 different bases. The obstacle course , controlling and breaking in safety on a downward decline , maintenance (looking after your bicycle) and understanding proper signals(turn left,turn right etc) and taking care while on the road. The evening was held in the Banks carpark on the Coast Road , Malahide . Over 30 bicycles were presented and maintenance was kept very busy( checking brakes ,tyre pressure) . Ciaran who took on the task of spot checking inquired vigorously why some bikes had rust.Had they been left out in the rain!
Oil check at the maintenence pit stop
By the end of the night everybody was briefed and got ready for Sundays annual cycle. See you on Fathers Day.
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- Ready to start at the Banks car park,Malahide
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- Safety Helmets on , Smiles up!
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- Ready for lift off
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- Oil check at the maintenence pit stop
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- Keeping between the cones
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- Snow white and pink in for final check up!
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- Lining up for obstacle course
