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Episode Notes
Seascapes tonight visits the Galway Docklands festival which took place last weekend.
We hear from Colette Furey from the Galway Hooker Sailing Club and from Ben McDonagh on board the hooker MacDuach.
Cormac Lowth tells us about his book, Ringsend Sailing Trawlers, which tells how trawlers under sail fished the Irish Sea from Ringsend for a hundreds years, starting in 1819.
Cormac's book can be ordered from his email: CormacFLowth69@gmail.com
And Norman Freeman tells us about the origin of the Plimsoll Line, which is mandatory on all ships.