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20th June 2011

New Lifestyle Home/Business On the Market in Wales

Those looking for a change of pace might be interested in a new lifestyle home and business that has just come on the market in south west Wales.

Rudders is a well established and profitable working boatyard offering services to local boat owners and water users in the village of Burton, on the edge of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with 22 miles of navigable waters in the immediate area.

The yard features a large boatshed and workshop, 60 deepwater moorings, plus changing and office facilties among other amenities.

The 10-acre site - with enviable views across the Cleddau esturary - includes Badger Cottage, the private residence of the current boatyard owners. The four-bed home in an open country setting has the potential to be expanded into a clubhouse or restaurant for entertaining boating enthusiasts.

Rudders is for sale through Waterside Properties with a guide price of £2.4 million (€2.7 million). For more details visit the Waterside Properties website HERE.

http://www.watersidecommercial.com/more_details.php?profileID=377554

Those looking for a change of pace might be interested in a new lifestyle home and business that has just come on the market in south west Wales.

The yard features a large boatshed and workshop, 60 deepwater moorings, plus changing and office facilties among other amenities.

Rudders is for sale through Waterside Properties with a guide price of £2.4 million (€2.7 million). For more details, including images, visit the Waterside Properties website HERE.

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About Conor O'Brien, Irish Circumnavigator

In 1923-25, Conor O'Brien became the first amateur skipper to circle the world south of the Great Capes. O'Brien's boat Saoirse was reputedly the first small boat (42-foot, 13 metres long) to sail around the world since Joshua Slocum completed his voyage in the 'Spray' during 1895 to 1898. It is a journey that O' Brien documented in his book Across Three Oceans. O'Brien's voyage began and ended at the Port of Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland, where he lived.

Saoirse, under O'Brien's command and with three crew, was the first yacht to circumnavigate the world by way of the three great capes: Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope and Cape Leeuwin; and was the first boat flying the Irish tri-colour to enter many of the world's ports and harbours. He ran down his easting in the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties between the years 1923 to 1925.

Up until O'Brien's circumnavigation, this route was the preserve of square-rigged grain ships taking part in the grain race from Australia to England via Cape Horn (also known as the clipper route).

At a Glance - Conor O'Brien's Circumnavigation

In June 1923, Limerick man Conor O’Brien set off on his yacht, the Saoirse — named after the then newly created Irish Free State — on the two-year voyage from Dun Laoghaire Harbour that was to make him the first Irish amateur to sail around the world.

June 1923 - Saoirse’s arrival in Madeira after her maiden passage out from Dublin Bay

2nd December 1924 - Saoirse crossed the longitude of Cape Horn

June 20th 1925 - O’Brien’s return to Dun Laoghaire Harbour