Tributes paid to around-the-world sailor

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to a Limerick man who completed a solo around-the-world voyage when he was in his 70s.

Pat Lawless, aged 84, died at his home at the weekend.

He got a hero’s welcome when he navigated his 30-foot vessel Seadog up the Shannon Estuary in July 1996, completing a three-year voyage of 30,000 miles through the Cape of Good Hope, around Australia and the Panama Canal.