An Irish sailor who came to Dunedin down in the dumps has left hoping to return after more than 100 people turned out to farewell him yesterday. That hospitality was in full force yesterday as more than one hundred people, including a folk band, bade him and his yacht, Kilcullen Voyager, farewell at Steamer Basin yesterday morning. Enda O’Coineen joins in a jig with the Dunedin Scottish Fiddle Club before setting off on his yacht Kilcullen Voyager yesterday. Irish yachtsman Enda O’Coineen’s yacht, Kilcullen Voyager, motors down Otago Harbour with its jury-rigged mast yesterday morning. He said he hoped to return to the city which had given him so much.
Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2017 18:50 UTC