Belfast-Copeland Is-Strangford Loch-Rogerstown-Dublin
(route http://www.a-trip.com/tracks/view/109534 )
After a thorough look round the excellent and popular Titanic exhibition in Belfast, we enjoyed a fresh afternoon sail out to a windy anchorage off Copeland Island. Then, south next day to Strangford Lough. After waiting a few hours for favourable stream into the Lough, we passed this. It's Britain's first commercial tidal turbine. Beneath the water, I gather there's 1,000 tonne, 43 metre diameter turbine the revolves in the current, generating up to 1.2MW. (Can that be right?!)
Anyway, we lay on a mooring at Strangford and could judge the speed of current by hum of the generator. It didn't seem to bother the resident seals and energetic local terns.
We had to leave around 4 am next morning to get out before tide turned, but then sailed on to cover about 65 miles and anchor north of Dublin that afternoon. Next day, into Dublin (city docks now closed, despite almanac advice). After a thorough look round the excellent and popular Titanic exhibition in Belfast, we enjoyed a fresh afternoon sail out to a windy anchorage off Copeland Island. Then, south next day to Strangford Lough. After waiting a few hours for favourable stream into the Lough, we passed this. It's Britain's first commercial tidal turbine. Beneath the water, I gather there's 1,000 tonne, 43 metre diameter turbine the revolves in the current, generating up to 1.2MW. (Can that be right?!)
We were given a berth at PoolBeg YC marina, opposite the busy Dublin docks, where there was customary Irish hospitality and helpfulness.
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