Bantry toasts five-time maritime skills champs

Young seafarers from west Cork arrived home last night to a rousing reception after claiming, for the fifth time, the top prize in an international competition for maritime skills.

Bantry toasts five-time maritime skills champs

Bantry, the Republic of Ireland’s sole representative in the Atlantic Challenge since the late 1980s, triumphed over Russian and Britain in a ‘down-to-the-wire’ final.

Northern Ireland was fourth in a competition hosted by France in the south Brittany harbour of Golfe Du Morbihan which also attracted teams from Indonesia, Canada, USA, Lithuania, Belgium, Italy and the Basque country.

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