Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:14 pm
sometime soon i fancy taking our rubber dinghy out on lough erne, any advice that i might need whilst taking it out.
Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:52 am
going there thursday ,,,,u taking upper or lower ? both are very dangerous , u needa good motor if it blows a wind
Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:33 pm
Big lakes like the Erne, Corrib or Mask can be very much like the sea. Once the wind gets going you will be looking at big waves very quickly. A small Dinghy will be ok, but only in the best of weather.
Kev
Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:14 pm
I spent three years living in a house on the side of Lough Ree and as MAC said big lakes can get very much like the sea in the wrong conditions. I spent many an evening looking at white-tops rolling across the lake and watched some of the lake/river cruisers struggling to make headway against the wind ( a lot of this stems from the fact that there is a governor on the engine to prevent the vessel travelling above a certain speed.).
The problem with a dinghy is once the wind reaches a certain strength the body of the dinghy acts like a sail (as was happening with the lake cruisers mentioned above) and you need a good engine HP to counteract that. Most dinghy's can only take a very small engine, if any at all.
Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:26 pm
bitsinbobs wrote:going there thursday ,,,,u taking upper or lower ? both are very dangerous , u needa good motor if it blows a wind
lower lough erne.
Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:54 pm
dan , if u r thinking of going out to the open lough nothing less than 15ft and 5hp motor , happened to me years ago wind blew up , motor was not able to keep us off the shore (which was an island ) i ended up in the water with a rope round me to stop the hull getting smashed, will never forget that
Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:11 pm
i was thinking about going into the wee bays and shallow areas of the lough for pike and trout.
Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:25 am
not a bad idea Dan, but only in the best of weather. Any wave action at all will make it tough going.
Kev
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