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I lost my dad last week. Mum died in February and my dad simply died of a broken heart.
While starting the process of cleaning out the family home I cam across these photos of the boat I cut my teeth on. A custom teak on mahogany built in the Kyles of Scotland. A full keel, canoe stern, blue water boat. We raced her in Lough Swilly where she was faster around the buoys than the Dragons, and we sailed her along the Atlantic north west coast of Ireland - Tory Island, Rathlin Island, Mulroy Bay etc. She was called Pladda, gaelic for small rock.
I spent many a summer on her with my friends. Unfortunately she cut her mooring during an October storm in the early 90s and was lost on the rocks of Inch Island.
While starting the process of cleaning out the family home I cam across these photos of the boat I cut my teeth on. A custom teak on mahogany built in the Kyles of Scotland. A full keel, canoe stern, blue water boat. We raced her in Lough Swilly where she was faster around the buoys than the Dragons, and we sailed her along the Atlantic north west coast of Ireland - Tory Island, Rathlin Island, Mulroy Bay etc. She was called Pladda, gaelic for small rock.
I spent many a summer on her with my friends. Unfortunately she cut her mooring during an October storm in the early 90s and was lost on the rocks of Inch Island.
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