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Eddy Hutch is proud that is first work naomohóg has survived the elements. The thick cotton canvas soaked in asphalt is now used instead of the ox skin in seal fat that was used in the Blasket Islands..

Eddy Hutch is proud that is first work naomohóg has survived the elements. The thick cotton canvas soaked in asphalt is now used instead of the ox skin in seal fat that was used in the Blasket Islands..

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  • Eddy Hutch, born in 1942, the last Skinboats (naomhóg) specialist for 43 years. He took interest in rowing following an injury. He became a champion on his famous boat
  • Pilgrimage in Brandon Creek with Eddy. Saint Brendan is said to have left from this location during the second half of the VIth century to discover America on board is Curragh. Tim Severin also cast off from there on board his large Curragh
  • Brendan Creek. A gloomy and an inhospitable place despite its beauty. There used to be around 90 curraghs in 1940. Up until 1960, each of these boats, containing 5 fishing nets and manned by 3 men would leave at dawn to go mackerel fishing as far as 7 miles away from the Creek.They managed to take between 2000 and 3000 fish. Those men who stayed on land (cf first picture) would wait there for the return of their friends. This is quite reminiscent of
  • Eddy Hutch is proud that is first work naomohóg has survived the elements. The thick cotton canvas soaked in asphalt is now used instead of the ox skin in seal fat that was used in the Blasket Islands..
  • Eddy Hutch, a man of remarkable serenity and openness whose warmth, caliber and modesty very much impressed us .
  • Brendan Creek tribute monument, Saint Brendan.
  • 7165- The infamous
  • Detail of the boat's structure
  • Above : They have here their own version of the Féroées Island's
  • The racing
  • Oars from the Dingle club
  • Our last evening in Dingle, admiring Naomóghs........

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