Irish and Dutch crew Greenland-bound for climate study

Adventurer Jamie Young has traversed the Atlantic twice as a solo sailor, kayaked around Cape Horn, raced around Rockall and taken a kite buggy to the Antarctic. This weekend, he and an Irish and Dutch crew are sailing north to Greenland, as part of a two-year project documenting the impact of climate crisis on the world’s largest island.

The crew will depart in Young’s 15m aluminium yacht, Killary Flyer, which comes from the Killary fjord on the Galway/Mayo border. It will head west into the Atlantic before setting a course for the 1,500 nautical mile voyage north.