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

Saturday, July 8, 2017

July 2017

At the slip.
To do: adjust stays, bend on sail, install cockpit floor and bench inserts, adjust reverse gear on remote, more cleaning.

Waiting for start of ebb.

On travel lift ready to go.
Volendam


Sailing day camp Ijburg Netherlands

Bridge opening on the Amstel River Amsterdam Netherlands
Freight Barge on the Amstel river Amsterdam Netherlands


Windmills Netherlands
zaanschemolen.nl

Volendam Harbour Netherlands

Amstel River at the Hermitage


June 2017

Ullapool Loch Broom flood tide

Ullapool Loch Broom ebb tide
Charles Bridge Prague
Vitava River

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.