Lands End will be rounded tonight
If the wind, crew and ship are up to it, the Sea Stallion will go on nonstop til Portsmouth.
Whale on portside!
The log shows 7 knots and with a wind abaft the beam of up to 14 metres/sec. the Sea Stallion is heading for Lands…
Why don’t we do everything as in Viking times?
Why don’t we navigate as they did in Viking times? Why don’t we wear the clothes the Vikings did? Why don’t we eat…
The first blister
Our hands are sore and the first blisters begin to appear. We have not yet rowed very much – an hour and half today…
Extract from logbook, 6 July 2008
From Wicklow heading for Portsmouth
8.30 Breakfast by the ship9.00 Skipper’s briefing:
The wind has turned…
Howth history and the prison in Wicklow
Dear Diary,today I write to you from Wicklow Town in County Wicklow - a town foundedby the Vikings and I have much…