The Logs

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Since the foundation of the Irish Cruising Club in 1929 prizes have been awarded to members for the best of their logs describing their adventures during the previous season. There are many categories of award to allow for the many different types of voyages undertaken. However all the logs are eligible for the most prestigious of the Club's awards.

In 1931 the Faulkner Cup was presented as the club's premier award and in the intervening years it has been won for outstanding voyages including in recent years for voyages to the polar regions and around South America.

2009
The Faulkner Cup was awarded to Trevor Lusty for a year long voyage that took him from France, to Spain, to the Azores and to the Canaries, down the coast of West Africa to Dakar, the Cape Verde islands, across the Atlantic to Salvador and Rio in Brazil and on to Buenos Aires.

The log is reproduced below with its author's permission as it appears in the ICC's 2009 Annual

A year in the life of Seafever of Cuan - France to Argentina

2008
The Faulkner Cup was awarded to Ed Wheeler for his outstanding 2008 voyage in his Contessa 35 'Witchcraft of Howth' from Northern Ireland, via Madeira and the Canary Islands to Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea Bissau, and then home via the Azores.

Ed also won two prizes for this log from the Royal Cruising Club.

Ed Wheeler's log is presented here, with the author's permission, exactly as it appeared in the Irish Cruising Club's 2008 Annual. His navigational notes about the region are also included. For ease of reading you may find it preferable to print off the pages. Please click on the link below.

Witchcraft goes to West Africa, by Ed Wheeler.