A bronze statue, named 'Waiting On Shore', stands at the top of Rosses Point village promenade and commemorates the wives and familes who were left ashore down through the years when their men-folk went away to sea.
Following many years of campaigning by local boat owners and village residents, the RNLI established a Lifeboat Station at Rosses Point in 1998. The original lifeboat - a B-class Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable (RIB) carrying three crew - was named the 'Elsinore' after a house belonging to an old Sligo merchant family, the Middletons, the ruin of which stands opposite the lifeboat station. The Atlantic 75 was upgraded in 2016 to an Atlantic 85 with a crew capacity of four and is named 'Sheila and Dennis Tongue' after the benefactors who donated funds towards the building of the Lifeboat. The station is staffed and crewed by volunteer men and women who come from all walks of life and is funded by voluntary public donations.
Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station, as it is officially known, looks out over Sligo Harbour with views of Oyster Island, Coney Island and Knocknarea mountain.
This is a multi-cache. To find the cache you must first solve a short puzzle derived from the description plaque at the 'Waiting On Shore' statue. The statue stands prominently overlooking the pier and Lifeboat Station at the end of the promenade in Rosses Point.
The number of letters in the last word = A
The number of words in the last line of the description = B
The number of letters in the fifth word of the poem = C
The number of letters in the first word of the title = D
N54 (Bx2) .C9A W08 (Cx17) .0D(Cx2)
Once you work out the puzzle, you can navigate to the cache!
NB: The cache is not accessable from within the grounds of Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station. The Station, however, does welcome visitors when there are crew members in attendance. The exception being in the event of a Lifeboat callout whereby members of the public are advised to remain at a safe distance and not obstruct access to the Station or interfere with the operations of the Lifeboat.
There is ample safe parking at the pier adjacent to Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station, although it may become quite busy at weekends during the Summer months. Please be courtious when parking as the pier is used extensively by charter fishing boats, and also local boaters to access neighbouring Coney Island, which can be seen 0.7km to the south west.
