The Galway Hooker
with Cian De Buitléar
ISBN 0-9549023-0-0
Published 3rd July 2005
Price: €26.50 p & p included
Complete Set: Price; €77.00 p&p included

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Johnny Healion

With their shiny black tumblehone, elegant spars and calico sails, Irelands Galway Hookers have long held a fascination for sailors around the world. Once used to carry turf and ferry cargo around the west coast of Ireland, they have now evolved into racing crafts and cruising vessels and can be seen
regularly throughout the summer months on both the east and west coast.

Now for the first time on DVD, exists a unique record of the building of one such craft, Star of the West. A collaboration between shipwright, Johnny Healion, the man at the centre of the hooker revival, and the boats owner who lovingly filmed and photographed the entire project, yields a magical insight into a world where boats are born and the craft of the men who were born to build them.

This DVD and handbook detail the process step by step, from the laying of the keel to her being blessed by the local priest and going on to win her first race.

Construction drawings are included.

DVD has choice of both Irish and English voiceover.

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Gaeilge

Húicéir na Gaillimhe 1
Le Cian De Buitléar
ISBN 0-9549023-0-0
Dáta Foilsithe 3ú Iuil, 2005
Praghas Miondíolta €26.50 móide p&p
Iomlán don trí leabhar, €77.00 móide p&p

Johnny Healion

Déanann bádóirí ar fud an domhain iontas de Húicéirí na Gaillimhe, a gcuid boilsceanna dubha, sparaí grástúla agus a gcuid seolta calico. D'úsáidtí na báid seo, tráth den saol, le
móin agus lastas a iompar timpeall ar chósta thiar na hÉireann. Báid rásaíochta agus pléisiúir iad don chuid is mó anois agus bíonn siad le feiceáil go rialta le linn an tsamhraidh ar chósta thoir agus thiar na hÉireann.

Don chéad uair anois ar DVD, tá taifead sainiúil againn de thógáil bháid, an Star of the West.Tugann an comhfhiontar idir an saor bád John Healion, a raibh baint mhór aige leis an athbheochan ar na bháid seo, agus úinéir an bháid, a thaifead an obair ar scannán agus i ngrianghraif, léargas draíochtúil dúinn ar an domhan as a n-eascraíonn na bháid agus ceird na bhfear a bhfuil sé de chumas nádúrtha iontu na báid a dhéanamh.

Déanann an DVD agus an treoirleabhar seo cur síos ar na céimeanna ar fad a bhaineann le déanamh an bháid: ó leagadh na cíle, go dtí an lá a mbeannaíonn an sagart áitiúil í go mbuann sí a céad rás.

Tá léaráidí tógála san áireamh.

Ta rogha de thráchtaireacht Ghaeilge nó Béarla leis an DVD