The Galway Hooker in the picture on the right—Bláth na hÓige—was built on Leitir Mealláin (Lettermullan island) off the Connemara coast in the nineteenth-century, and as of 2014 is operating out of Roundstone in Connemara, bringing people on 2-3 hour sailing trips around Roundstone Bay and its islands. The distinctive shape of the hooker is ... Read more
