Retired teacher died after boat overturned, inquest told

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

Douglas Perrin, who was 66, had retired to live at Ard na Gaotha, Dunmanus, Goleen, Co Cork, a year before his death last August.

He had purchased his 24ft sailing boat, a Drascombe Lugger called The Zillah, two years previously.