1st picture Padraig Fleming & below Tom Barrett below with 1 weeks growth on the right.
This week was a good week to be based onboard the Cork to Swansea Ferry route ship the Julia. I am sure with the weather the way it was many people were wishing their work was onboard a ship.
Cork was a bit flooded this morning but she still looked good in a Venice kind of way. Let’s hope it will be another 20 years before we see rain like that again.
I hoped you tuned into the Business show on RTE radio1 last Saturday morning to hear our CEO Tom Barrett been interviewed. We really enjoyed having John & Alan onboard. Status update on Toms charity moustache see picture above. He is looking more like a seaman each day.
This week I had the chance to have a brief chat with Padraig Fleming. Padraig is one of the founding members of the West Cork Coop movement. In little over a year these people have managed to purchase a ship & it will start service next in March 2010. Yes we can? Yes they did.
Padraig has been involved in tourism for a while now. Along with his wife Mary he is the proprietor of Anchor Bay Cottages in the beautiful West Cork town of Courtmacsherry. Padraig said the whole West Cork & SW Ireland region will benefit from the return of the Cork to Swansea ferry link.
He is looking forward to the 1st sailing in March & to seeing every Parish, Village & Town in the region benefiting financially.
Check out Anchor Bay Cottages at www.irelandholidayhomes.com or email Padraig abcottages@hotmail.com for more info.
Update on our prices. We are still on schedule to have prices online someday next week. Those of you on our email database will be the 1st to receive an email letting you know. We also hope to be doing some deals with other ferry operators to provide a Land bridge to Europe as soon as we get our own prices are online.
We also plan to have a new look website over the next few months.
I would also like to welcome anboard Catherine Murphy who will look after the admin side of things for Fastnet line. If you need info drop an email to info@fastnetline.com & Catherine will get back to you.
Interesting fact about the Julia.
Her last route was from Helsinki in Finland to St Petersburg in Russia. The service was discontinued after promises by the Russian Government to relax visa regulations never happened. Helsinki & St Petersburg’s pain. Cork & Swansea’s gain.
Until next week.
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