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Green Dragon Back in Galway Looking for a Mast

22nd May 2017
Green Dragon coming into Galway Docks on Sunday morning Photo Pierce Purcell Jnr Green Dragon coming into Galway Docks on Sunday morning Photo Pierce Purcell Jnr

The Sino-Irish Volvo Racer Green Dragon has been having a somewhat checkered career since leaving Ireland, and though she took Transatlantic line honours in the ARC in December as the beginning of a Portuguese involvement in future Volvo Races, more recently she had the indignity of being dismasted.

Fortunately there’s a spare mast in her old home port of Galway, and she arrived in there yesterday to have it fitted. Afloat.ie will have more on this story as the week goes on.

green dragon back in galway2“I’m sure we left a spare mast here somewhere.....” Green Dragon returns to her old home port of Galway on a very specific mission. Photo: Pierce Purcell Jnr

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