Brendan voyager to re-rig famous boat

The adventurer who crossed the Atlantic in a craft made of hide in a re-enactment of the voyage taken by St Brendan will be reunited with his famous boat today.

Historian and voyager Tim Severin, who rarely returns to see the Brendan Boat which carried him across the Atlantic, will visit Craggaunowen in Co Clare where it is on display.

According to legend, St Brendan ‘The Navigator’, sailed across the ocean in a bid to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. He is reputed to have discovered America centuries before Christopher Columbus.