RECIPE: The best restaurants to get seafood chowder in Cork harbour

For years, Noel Barry and his four buddies have sailed Cork harbour, sampling the seafood chowder available at its bars and restaurants. Here, they give some advice to sailors with a hearty appetite

We have christened ourselves the Chowder Sailing Brethren of Cork Harbour.

There is me, Noel Barry who came up through the dinghy ranks in Monkstown with John Dooley, Robert the skipper who is extraordinarily generous with his boat, a 35 foot Jeanneau Sun Odyssey, Mark, a veteran of transatlantic and Caribbean cruising and racing and Arnaud, who worked in the French Navy.