Water Wag Dalkey Island picnic
by Vincent Delany 16 Jun 2014 08:13 BST
15 June 2014
For the past 128 years, the Water Wags from Dun Laoghaire have sailed to Dalkey Island for a picnic. Is this a world record?
The fist Picnic took place on a National holiday to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887.
In 2014 a great fleet of Water Wags sailed to the Island with an ebb tide, moored off, and were taken ashore in RIBs.
After the picnic, the Water Wags had to nose into a 2.5 knot tide on their race home. Fortunately the sun shone all day.