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

Saturday, November 8, 2025

November 2025

Galley renovation. 
Ikea small refrigerator installed. Small microwave and portable induction top to be installed.Currently on shore power, inverter to be installed this winter



Composting (desiccating) head
 


Water Tank installed under fore peak berth

SV Ulla at winter dock, Anchorage Marina Essington PA
Fox Grove Marina has problems with the travel lift, so no haulout this years, and the marina while at a great location also has long fetch to the west. Anchorage is well protected by Little Tinicum Island
 which limits the fetch. I am on "C" dock but will probably move to "B" dock for less exposure.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

May 2025

 New old boat Fisher 25 Ketch 


2025-05-29 at slip


2025-05-29 on travel lift ready for splash










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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.