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Mercy Ships

February Launch
for Galway Hooker

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

A transatlantic voyage with a difference is what Steven Mulkerrins has in mind. Now living in Chicago, the 40-year-old carpenter from Connemara is applying finishing touches to a traditional Irish boat – a 47-foot Galway hooker – so that he can fulfill his dream of sailing from America to Ireland in the craft. "It will certainly be the first hooker to sail west to east with … [Read more...] about February Launch
for Galway Hooker

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