External events

Gavin Doran wrote to ask for our help with a charity project. It’s outside the CAI’s brief, but members might want to participate individually.

Professor Tom Ray will tell the story of how Dunsink Observatory began by providing a time service to Dublin Port but now helps build instruments for space, such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

Skerries Sailing Club member Liam McMahon will give an
account of his cruise from Fehmarn in Germany through
Denmark via the Lille and Store Belt and on up to the
Western Swedish Archipelago North of Gothenburg.

Climate change, reusable energy and environmental awareness concern us all. Sustainable use of the marine resources and changes in navigation technology affect leisure sailors as well as professional seamen.