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A crew of five sailors from West Clare are currently involved in the sailing adventure of their lives travelling to France aboard the Sally O’ Keeffe – a community owned boat they built themselves. The crew on board who are all members of the local Seol Sionna sailing group are Niamh McGibney from Mullagh, Stephen Morris and Enda Mc Donagh from Moyasta, Peter Ranalow from Kildysart, and James Devane from Kilrush. The ambitious group left Baltimore in Cork on Tuesday night, July 9 and arrived in the Isles of Scilly on Thursday morning, July 11 for their first stop en route to France. That leg of the journey alone took nearly 40 hours sailing on a 26ft open boat. The group plan to attend traditional maritime festivals in Brest and Douarnenez in Brittany over the next two weeks. The Sally O’ Keeffe was built in 2012 at Querrin by New Zealander Stephen Morris who is also on board her on …
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