Sail we must: How a Cork fisherman inspired Andrew Weatherall's tattoo
Andrew Weatherall and his tattoos; right, West Cork fisherman Gerard Sheehy who inspired the tattoo.
The conversation lasted 90 minutes at most. Yet it would have a profound impact on the lives of both men. In the summer of 2008, Windsor-born producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall was travelling to West Cork for a music festival. His driver was a young fisherman, Gerard Sheehy, from Baltimore, on the wild edge of the Atlantic.
Somewhere along the circuitous, often bumpy, journey from Cork Airport to the Showgrounds in Skibbereen, where Cork X Southwest was taking place, Sheehy imparted to Weatherall the maxim “Fail We May, Sail We Must”.
