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Clockwise around Ireland

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to sail around Ireland, headland by headland. The ambition soon became a reality when John McQuaid and I joint-purchased our Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349, Scoundrel, in early 2017. A shake down cruise to West Cork later, and we were ready to sail clockwise around Ireland.

We decided to split the voyage into two parts. The first passage was a non-stop 275-mile voyage from our home port, Dún Laoghaire, south of Dublin to Dingle during the last weekend of June. We would then

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