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The Three Paddy Travellers

The Circumnavigation of Ireland

In July 2011 I joined a

friend’s boat in Dublin

to sail around Ireland

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We were very lucky with the weather as the west coast of Ireland is pretty remote in places with not too many ‘bolt-holes’. We were only stormbound once for 3 days in Baltimore, almost on the south west tip of Ireland. One highlight was a visit to the uninhabited island of Inistrahull - made memorable by many overflights in Shackletons …