#ilen

Not the greatest, but some of my recent art for my campaign I'm DMing. Queen Ilen, Keeper of the Crystal Throne and Blood of the Goddess, Child of the Moon in her moments of grief, and Callow Caster and Third Seat of the Wizards of Four, Rhulie Desmog.

The Ilen, Ireland's last wooden cargo vessel with a hold, which has embarked upon a two-week voyage from Baltimore, West Cork, with a cargo of locally produced cheese, coffee and whiskey and will visit islands on the south and west coasts of Ireland Credit: Gary MacMahon/PA

The Ilen anchored in Glandore for the first time in 20 years while on the way to the Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival.

It took about an hour to run back down the river, the current weakening now and the wind behind me. A southern cardinal mark at the river’s mouth signalled that it was time to turn left to approach Hackett’s creek from it’s northern end via a shallow bay with a few rocks to dodge.

A short clip of sailing across Baltimore harbour and up the Ilen river.

The wind was fresh enough to put a couple of reefs in before setting off from Baltimore. With the morning so sunny it looked as though the wind would get fresher as the day went on. It was soon to cloud over though and there was no need for the third reef. With the wind from the SE, the flood tide helped me make good progress and only a few tacks were necessary on each stretch of the river. The river has approx three stretches with two turns to the north so the SE breeze was ideal for this trip. 

This is as far as I got up the river on my previous trip a couple of years ago. Hegarty’s boat yard is the spiritual home of the traditional boat building resurgence in West Cork. It always has an interesting number of wrecks/ projects scattered around it.

A short video of when I turned and headed back down the Ilen. That dog sounds like he’s never seen an Ilur before!