Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! The G4 challenge began last Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand. It lasts 28 days and travels from Asia to Brazil on May 5th to finish off. Dr.Gary Robertson will be representi[...] Read More »

Dave MacLeod has climbed the first ever E11 in the world, just outside Glasgow. He is certainly one of the world’s finest all round climbers, establishing some of Scotland’s hardest winter climbs and of course his latest accomplishment speaks for itself. I am well psyched and very reli[...] Read More »

Geared Up has just past 500 comments! Wahoo! We’re also on 928 posts, and closing quickly on our 1,000th! (We’ll hold a big party in town, and you’re all invited!) To celebrate the 501 comments, here’s some Sunday night entertainment for the Bank Holiday (In Ireland.)….[...] Read More »

The ‘GO.OgleEarth’ blog has given Ireland a mention for it’s early lead on contributions to the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. The Irish get an early lead with their 3D Warehouse contributions. Here’s Howth harbour, and here is what must be the world’s fastest-constructed Sketc[...] Read More »

UTV say Two youths have been rescued by a life boat in County Waterford. The youths became stranded on rocks as they were walking along the Waterford coastline shortly after 7pm, last night. They were cut off by the incoming tide, but were successfully rescued by Tramore Life Boat about 20 minutes l[...] Read More »

I’ve finally finished modelling Howth Harbour. It’s rather detailed! You can download my file into Google Earth. Glad to hear what you think! Make sure you install the 3D Warehouse network link to your ‘my places’ in Google Earth. This will make sure everyones sketchup model[...] Read More »

Photos from the Leitrim Adventure Race are now available on AdventureIreland.co.uk (funny domain…. an Irish .co.uk! But I think this is due to the Northern Ireland origins of the race organisers.) [...] Read More »

RTE News report a pilot whale in Kerry has been moved back out to sea. Inch strand (the one in the Kerry Maid advert “where an inch is a mile”) is a long beach… I can imagine the whale on it. A pilot whale that had been stranded on Inch Beach in Co Kerry has been safely returned [...] Read More »

RTE News - Coast Guard helicopter to airlift ill diver A Coast Guard helicopter is on its way to Fastnet Rock off the Cork coast to airlift a diver who is believed to be suffering from the bends to hospital in Galway. The bends is a decompression illness which affects divers who resurface too rapi[...] Read More »

Please support Dave Garvey’s Irish Sea Challenge for Aware. On the most favourable sea-faring day during the third week in June, Dave from Malahide, will windsurf from Dollymount Strand in Dublin to Anglesea in Wales to raise funds for Aware, the Irish national organisation working to defeat[...] Read More »

SketchUp is great! Especially the share features! Here’s a quick Google Earth model of the Martello Tower in Howth (.kmz). [...] Read More »

I said it would happen! With Jeff Clavier speaking here in the middle of the Web2Ireland conference, Google has JUST made sketch up free! Download it here, and start mapping your hometown! This is cool to a google search for 3D models. [...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up I must admit I’ve been a bit of a copy cat! I must champion these though. On their first excursion they proved to be really nice. I’ve had a problem rolling my ankle in the Harriers, and these Speedcross seem to just stick the inside of your foot to the ground (touch w[...] Read More »

Yachts are currently off Northern Ireland. They have ~200 miles to the finish, and all are doing 200+ miles over each 24hr run so we can expect them back in Howth circa Wednesday afternoon at a guess. Click for larger view of Dolphins off Samsung’s stern yesterday. [...] Read More »

Ireland Challenge 2006 - Race Viewer shows that Spirt of Sark is in the lead by 4 miles! The fleet is currently on a run with aft winds off Co. Clare. [...] Read More »

Outsider announce results from the Outsider Inter-services challenge at the weekend. Congratulations to the Fire Service for 1st place amongst the services. 1)BIC Sports / Outsider 16:18 Overall Race Winner 2)Union Chandlery 19:19 3)Team Ivan Park 21:13 Two Person Team Race Winner 4)Fire Service 22[...] Read More »