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Only Harbour In Wicklow Big Enough To Handle 'Monster' Yacht is Greystones Marina

7th June 2014
Only Harbour In Wicklow Big Enough To Handle 'Monster' Yacht is Greystones Marina

#RoundIreland - When Wicklow farmer David Ryan found the 70-foot racer he's entering in the Round Ireland Yacht Race was too big to berth at the county town's harbour, he was in a bit of a pickle.

But that was until the new Greystones Marina stepped in to help, as the Wicklow Voice reported on 29 May.

The marina's manager Alan Corr has hailed its hosting of Ryan's Volvo 70 class Monster Project as "great news for Greystones. We're trying to put the marina on the sailing map and this can only help."

As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Monster Project will set out with the rest of the Round Ireland racing fleet on 28 June aiming to be first to cross the line in Wicklow.

Published in Greystones Harbour
MacDara Conroy

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