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Especially since they did this in the 80s, the leather boat punctured, and they had to repair it while emptying the boat in frigid waters. Good times.

If you get a chance, the leather currach which Tim Severin built and sailed across the Atlantic is now on display and can be visited at the Irish Heritage Museum at Craggaunowen, Co. Clare. It's a remarkable vessel and hard to imagine a monk from the 5th century climbing aboard one and sailing across the Atlantic, although stranger things have happened.

Makes ya wonder how many monks climbed aboard such boats and failed to cross the Atlantic.

You mean, like a Brother Shamus?