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Some people have got a stressful job | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
and they go out for the race to get rid of that tension | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
that they might have had. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
I think when I race, I get tension! | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Lay over! | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
You're not just racing against other competitors. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
You're racing against elements. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
It gives me a thrill. Bit like a fix! | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
When you're sailing well, things are humming, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
it just feels like the wee boat's on wheels at times. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
My father worked on boats throughout the country | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
and around the Lough in different areas of the Lough | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
and, indeed, down here. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
The boatyard was founded here in the early '30s, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
and when we were born into it, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
it was a great playground for us. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
So it's still going on as a family tradition. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
Myself and my brothers grew up with the yard here and the boats. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
We all own a boat of some sort. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
I own number eight, Laragh, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
and it hadn't been sailed for a number of years. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
It was getting in bad repair. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
Been lying. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:51 | |
And we got it, brought it back to the yard and restored it. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
It's working with your hands with wood. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
As a tradition here, it was wooden boats in our childhood. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
Fibreglass was coming into it in the late '60s, early '70s. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:08 | |
A lot of them are considered that they're not boats at all! | 0:02:08 | 0:02:14 | |
I enjoy working on it. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
I enjoy getting it really how it should look. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
It's really looking well. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
I enjoy racing it. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
I mean, you're not out there just for a wee sail about. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
You're enjoying that, the scenery, the surroundings, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
but you're there to race. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:37 | |
And racing is something that you have in your blood | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
and you can't shake that off. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
There's always a friendly rivalry, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
but in the water, when you're racing, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
those feelings just sometimes go out the window. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
It's more intense competition nearly, against the brothers. | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
There's a thing called brotherly love. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
But I'm telling you, | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
it doesn't stretch very far sometimes in the water. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
Now, obviously the competitive spirit comes out of it first, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
let me tell you! | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
Quite a lot of the rivers were based in the boatyards during the winter. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
We always worked at them as we got older. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
At the time, you think, "Those are nice-looking boats, nice lines, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
"nice character about it." | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
Looking at the way the rivers were built, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
I remember my father saying, "Those are well-built boats." | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
When someone with his expertise says they're well-built boats, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
you take heed of that. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
You get a bond with the actual boat. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
Because of the way it's built and the pride you have in it, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
it's not something that you can replace. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
You can't go down to the shelf and buy a new one. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
These are boats that almost live and breathe. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
I love the rivers, because they talk to you. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
As a boat, they talk to you. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
When you have your sails set correctly, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
you can hear the creaks and the groans in the rigging, in the mast, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
in the very fibre of the boat | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
that tells you that that is what she wants to be doing. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
The boat has a character, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
and that character, that interaction, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
is two people having a conversation together. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
A very good start. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
There's some very, very nice prizes to be won. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
I think that's one of the things that people again race for. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
A really nice one is the cigar box. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
It dates back to the '20s. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
It was raced for by a class before the rivers. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
But they died away, soled away, whatever. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
It's a really treasured prize for anybody winning it. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Each time you win the trophy, the owner and the boat, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
their names are on it, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
so you look back years and see how well each one has done. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:30 | |
There's pride in that as well, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
because you know if you win a race at the regatta, | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
your name's gonna be on that for ever. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
And it's nice to look back. There's a real sense of history in that. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Two minutes. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
Righto! | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Yacht racing is a very competitive sport. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
There's a lot of cut and thrust in it. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
Oh, my God! They're late. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
I enjoy it because of the skill involved, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
the concentration, the unpredictability of it. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
One of the most important things | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
in the kind of racing which we do in Strangford is making a good start. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
Once a boat is in the lead, it generally speaking has an advantage. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
In a race, you're trying to gain every advantage you can | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
from the starting line, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
position your boat at the start. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
The boats are all moving, there's no stop, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
and then suddenly, bang, the gun goes and everybody moves off. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
Look up! | 0:06:36 | 0:06:37 | |
Jib. Fly the jib. Fly the sails. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
Nice one. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
I'm very competitive, I'm afraid, I am. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
Not in a bullish way. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:08 | |
Everybody has to sail within the rules. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
But you have to have a sort of controlled aggression, | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
you have to have a will to want to win. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
Very important they don't get an overlap on us at the mark. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
Right, folks. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
Spinnaker down. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:22 | |
OK, guys. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
-He has got an overlap on us. -Whoa! | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
Whoa! Whoa! | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
Did they touch? | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
-Did they? -I don't know. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
Sailing's very polite. Racing's a different story. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
Everybody says it's cut-throat out on the water. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
It really is cut-throat. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
-..We might have to! -Ease! Ease! Ease! | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
A few near experiences! | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
OK, it's going to be a close race. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
There is a very strong rivalry in the racing, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
but there has to be a fellowship as well. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
You have to trust the other competitors. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
Because there's a lot of weight and power behind those boats. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
It's like a chess game in the water. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
You're trying to position your boat into certain areas | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
where there's more wind, a bit less tide maybe, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
a bit more tide if it's to your advantage. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
The wind's gone up a bit and there's a nasty rain squall | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
coming in over Killyleagh. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
-Main OK? -Yeah. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
It's pretty dire at the moment. There's no wind. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
These guys have a breeze up here. We're in nothing. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
This rain is killing everything. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
We just have to wait and see what happens. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Any breeze coming in, I hope those guys don't make too much on us. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
There's nothing we can do but sit and wait. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
Kenny is completely becalmed. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
-It's not over yet. -It's not over yet! | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
Going up. You'll have to come in. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
Why are you trying to devil me?! | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
Stop sitting in my wind! | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
You've no claim or I'd have married you. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
Kenny's coming up. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
This is hyper! | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
No, I was complaining to the Blue Glen that he was taking my wind. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
No-one was challenging him | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
and I was trying to get the lead in the river class. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
I suppose I really should have kept my mouth shut. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
-Poke her up. -BANG! | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
Well sailed. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
Well done, man. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:15 | |
At the end of each race, all the boats cheer the winner. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
Hip hooray! Hip hooray !Hip hooray! | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
On the water there, it's a battle, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
but once it's over, anything that happened is forgotten about. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:31 | |
You can't force kids to do something. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
If they take it nice and easy out for a wee evening sail | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
and they get the feel of the boat, and if they want to pick it up, | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
they'll adapt to that very well. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
For a child, helming a river, I'm sure, is some feat | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
and something for them to remember. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
The river I have means a lot to me, I must say. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
It would be hard to part with it. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
I enjoy racing it, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
and hopefully I'll pass it on to my family, my kids. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:19 | |
You can imagine the pride my father had | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
when Kenny and I did well in racing. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
Some day, we might be blessed with the same thing, you know, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
with our kids coming in and saying, "That's good. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
"You got a win tonight." | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
Owning a river is, to me, quite important. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
I'm an owner of a bit of wood and lead and canvas. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
But I'm only an owner for a while. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
And when you own a yacht that's 84 years old, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:02 | |
you have a feeling sometimes you're just a steward there for a time, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
looking after a lovely bit of property. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
As time goes on, you realise that these boats are lent to us. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:19 | |
If the kids come up afterwards when we're long gone, | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
if these boats are still sailing about, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
that would be an achievement and something to give you pride, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
thinking that that will happen in the future, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
they're gonna be sailed by people who still care for them. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
The owners are now custodians. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
And I think that when you look at a river, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
you have to look at your time in the river | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
and then your time to part with a river | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
and someone else's time in a river. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
I would like to think that the rivers will see their 100 years. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
I don't think I'll be there, but I still would love to see them | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
or love to be able to attend the dinner on their 100th anniversary. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:14 | |
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