South Meath Jet Ski Club – October Bank Holiday weekend 2009

One of the last planned club events of 2009 was for a run down the Shannon from Leitrim Marina on the October bank holiday weekend. As it turned out Longwood GAA club won the Junior A county final on the Sunday so the numbers from Longwood were down to one Ski following the celebrations that took place on Sunday night. Several other families including the Charles, Hoey and O’Shea’s travelled down for the weekend with the Stagg’s and O’Connor’s making it down for the Monday Run. Des also travelled down on Sunday and both he and Eugene went about celebrating Longwood’s win in Carrick on Sunday night . . .

We gathered on the marina around 11ish on Monday and three skis and three boats full of family and friends headed off down the river towards Carrick. We went onto Albert lock with the intention of heading on to Dromod but the lock keepers lunch break extended way past 2pm and as there was still no sign of him 20mins later we decided to head back to Carrick as we wanted to make sure we got back to Leitrim Marina before dark. We stopped over in Carrick and got Lunch in the Landmark on the way back through. The food and service was very good especially since we were such a large group. After the lunch we loaded back onto the boats and Skis and made it back to Leitrim Marina with 20min of daylight to spare. A good decision made not to go through the lock !

This is probably the last run out with the boats for 2009, as they will be taken out of the water shortly for the winter months. We had some great days out and are looking forward to next year. Pictures from this latest event can be seen under the South meath gallery tab.

Next on the agenda is a number of training days throughout the winter months including, Small craft inshore, VHF radio and ISA / RYA instruction on safe use of PWC craft.