Expedition Yacht Northabout Returns to Dun Laoghaire and Heads for Greenland

1st July 2022

Tom MacSweeney

Northabout, the 47-foot Westport expedition yacht in Dun Laoghaire marina" title=" Northabout, the 47-foot Westport expedition yacht in Dun Laoghaire marina

Northabout, the 47-foot Westport expedition yacht of Jarlath Cunnane from Mayo, which with a crew, many of them Galway Hooker sailors, completed an Arctic circumnavigation of the world with a transit of the Northeast Passage north of Russia, has been back to Ireland after being sold to France.

Crewed “exclusively by women,” the yacht put into Dun Laoghaire this week en route to Greenland on another expedition.

Northabout expedition leader Marta Goumes aboard Northabout with Jarltah Cunnan'es book about his polar voyage

The leader of this expedition, from France, is Marta Goumes, who learned her sailing in West Cork – at the former Glenans base in Baltimore. It Is amazing how the Irish marine sphere, boats, places and people, resonates around the world…

From Northabout, Marta told me how her group were taking the former West of Ireland yacht back to cold weather regions…..

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Tom MacSweeney

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Tom MacSweeney writes a column for Afloat.ie. He is former RTE Marine Correspondent/Presenter of Seascapes and now has a monthly Podcast on the Community Radio Network and Podcast services

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