Home Port; on the Delaware River at Fox Grove Marina Essington PA.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

November 2010 HAUL OUT - April 2011 SPLASH

April 30, 2011
Low 60's F,  wind 15 gusting 20 to 25
The prop slot infill has resulted in the boat holding course without applying much pressure on the tiller and will hold course for a while without any correction to the tiller.
Motor remote control needs some adjustment, the neutral position favors the reverse side. Control cable attachments on the side of motor strike aft-rail when lifting the motor straight, so need to turn motor before lifting out of the water, tilt is restricted by cables. I may move the motor from port to starboard.







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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Spring 2011 Philadelphia












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Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null lad).





Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.



Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.



Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence. Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.



The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.



SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.