The Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) has issued several safety recommendations in relation to a popular traditional sailing boat following a fatal capsizing incident off Cork.

A retired public school teacher from Oxfordshire died after a summer sailing trip turned to disaster in West Cork.

Tributes were paid to a 66-year-old sailor "who died doing what he loved best", at his funeral in Schull, West Cork yesterday. Douglas Perrin died after his boat capsized at the mouth of Schull Harbour last Wednesday. His body was recovered by rescue services the following morning.

Officials from the Marine Casualty Investigation Board arrived in West Cork to begin their probe into the sailing tragedy that took the life of a 66-year-old English man and forced his two elderly friends to swim a kilometre to shore.

The three sailors in their 60s and 70s were clinging to the side of their boat when they saw an island come into view.

The 66-year-old British man who died when his 5.5m yacht capsized off the West Cork coast kept a holiday home and mooring in the wider Schull area.

It is believed a man in his 60s who died when an 18ft yacht capsized off the West Cork coast this morning was living in the wider Schull area.

A man missing from a yacht which capsized off west Cork has been found drowned.

A body has been found by a lifeboat crew searching for the missing man off the Cork coast.

Size: 165 sq m (1,765 sq ft)

Rossbrin and Stouke, West Cork

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