http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/It+was+the+Cruinni%C3%BA+na+mB%C3%A1d+festival+this+weekend+%28%E2%80%98the+gathering+of+the+boats%E2%80%99%29The+traditional+sailing+boats+%E2%80%98hookers%E2%80%99 IrishCentral It was the Cruinniú na mBád festival this weekend (‘the gathering of the boats’)The traditional sailing boats ‘hookers’ en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/a-taste-of-ireland/boat-festival-in-kinvara-and-and-a-hurling-win-to-celebrate-127822798.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/a-taste-of-ireland/boat-festival-in-kinvara-and-and-a-hurling-win-to-celebrate-127822798.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:34:03 PDT
It was the Cruinniú na mBád festival this weekend (‘the gathering of the boats’)The traditional sailing boats ‘hookers’, some of them 180 years old and crewed by the same families for five generations, symbolically brought the turf from Connemara to Kinvara on Saturday, as they used to do for centuries, until the 1950s when the Bedford truck took over and they ceased to trade The breeze was stiff for an exciting race on Sunday, out past Island Eddie into the choppy waters of Galway bay to turn around the buoy beyond Trácht beach In the heat of the race these large sailing boats were tilting so far into the wind they were virtually taking on water, completely exposing their colorful keels on the far side READ MORE ]]>