East Coast Surf Club

A new harbour development at Doolin is threatening these two landmark Irish waves.

From the article on Magicseaweed.com:

There is a ferry operation running from a small pier in the lagoon behind Crab Island to the nearby Aran islands. This runs during the summer months when the lagoon is not getting churned by big winter swells. These ferries now require a larger pier in deeper water in order to meet an EU regulation on commercial passenger ferries.

However the design that Clare Co. Council has decided on is likely to damage both waves of Crab Island and Doolin Point from backwash. It will also introduce a safety hazard by forcing surfers to now paddle across the ferry’s paths to get to the lineups. It is also likely to get damaged by winter storms due to its exposed location out the point. (The existing pier is located at the back of the lagoon).

Reading the plans drawn up shows that the effect on the surf spots has not been taken into consideration at all by the council. They have, to date, not given any response to repeated and sustained requests from local surfers for a meeting on the issue.

Local surfers in the area are trying to convince the council that a ‘win-win’ situation can easily achieved. A design where the ferries have a pier that meets their requirements and does not damage the waves with backwash. Simply moving the pier back towards the existing one by about 50m and dredging a little deeper inside the pier should achieve this.

Plus it would also have the added effect of lessening the amount of damage done to the pier by the massive winter swells that pound this stretch of coast. Local surfers need to convince the council of how well regarded these surf spots are, both by Irish and international surfers. As part of that we would like you to sign the petition.

It only takes 10 seconds. The West Coast Surf Club in Ireland will present this petition as part of a submission to Clare Co. Council before the closing date of objections on August 5th, 2010. Please, have your voice heard. Let’s keep this wave so that its peeling tubes are there for you when you visit Ireland.

Please link this petition to any facebookmyspaceblogs you may have and mail to your surfing friends.”

Please sign the Petition to change the plans at PetitionOnline.com!

The current plans can be viewed on the Clare Co. County website.

Local surfers are also encouraging people to send in their own formal objections to this. This can be done for free (no charge for submissions as it’s not a private planning application) by posting a letter to “Planning Section, Clare County Council, New Road, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland”, quoting “Planning application details ref: 108006 (Clare County Council)”. You must also include your name and address.)

You can read more about this story on Magicseaweed.com & Surfline.com or visit the Facebook Group.

Hey folks,

time for a few pints in Dublin again, Thursday 15th in O’Neill’s of Pearse St again from 8:30.http://www.dublinpubs.ie/pub.asp?id=514.

As usual, everyone is welcome, regulars, old members, new members or people that just want to check out the crowd before deciding if they want to join. Come on in, have a chat and get to know us.

There’ll be chat of recent trips and events like the Surf2Heal event last weekend in Tramore. We’ll also be discussing upcoming trips as we’re getting close to the best swell season of the year.

Hope to see y’all there.

Call me if you get lost,
Conor O’B
Oh Ate Sicks Too Nein Tree Fave Tree Tree Tree

We’re running a Surf2Heal camp in Tramore this July.

We’ll be taking a group of children with autism from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area to Tramore for four days of surfing. For more information on the camp download this pdf or go to surf2heal.org. If you’d like to bring your child on the camp email dublin@surf2heal.org and we’ll send you an application form.

Hey everybody,

Just wanted to let you know that the next committee / organisational meeting is happening on Monday 5th July as usual in Gleeson’s in Booterstown at 8pm.

All welcome!
Lisa

Hey folks,

time for a few pints in Dublin again, Thursday 17th in O’Neill’s of Pearse St from 8:30. We’ve decided to make this place our regular haunt as it’s convenient for the majority and saves having to decide on a new place each month. http://www.dublinpubs.ie/pub.asp?id=514
As usual, everyone is welcome, be they old members, new members or people that just want to check out the crowd before deciding if they want to join. Come on in, buy us all a drink, and become instantly popular!
There’ll be chat of recent trips. There’ll certainly be much gloating of last weekend and making final plans for the solstice weekend 19/20 of this month.
Traditionally we have a BBQ in Enniscrone and we’ve always been lucky with the surf and weather. Here’s hoping for this year however we may change location closer to the date depending on swell predictions.

Hope to see y’all there.

Call me if you get lost,
Conor O’B
Oh Ate Sicks Too Nein Tree Fave Tree Tree Tree

Hi folks,

just wanted to let you know that we had to reschedule the committee / organisational meeting so the meeting will now be happening on Monday 17th May as usual in Gleeson’s in Booterstown at 8pm.

Everybody welcome!
Lisa

Hey folks,
socials are back on third Thursday nights again! Apparently it’s a little more acceptable to arrive to work a little “tired”, on a Friday morning than on a Thursday so no more Wednesday socials for a while.

This months social will be in O’Neills of Pearse St again as everyone liked it last month http://www.dublinpubs.ie/pub.asp?id=514

This is a great opportunity for new and potential members to suss out the crowd and maybe plan a trip. We’ll be chatting about the upcoming June meet and greet weekend in Clare over a few pints and maybe staying out too late for our own good.

Hope to see y’all there.

Call me if you get lost,
Conor O’B
Oh Ate Sicks Too Nein Tree Fave Tree Tree Tree