Ilen

In 1999, I arrived in Baltimore Ireland on a bright summer day, waiting for the foot ferry across Roaring Water Bay. A week later, I departed from Skibbereen on the River Ilen.

In the March/April 2020 issue of Wooden Boat is a story of the restoration of the Irish ketch Ilen, built in Baltimore in 1926 (and serving 70 years in the Falkland Islands) at a boatyard on the river of her name.

~ by Jay Taber on March 7, 2020.