July 14, 2003
Barely afloat
RTE are still persisting with their ship-based reality TV show, Cabin Fever . The first ship sank off Tory Island. Alas, the camera crew had already gone home for the evening, and managed to capture not a single frame of the drama as the boat went down. Conveniently, there was therefore no footage of who was at the wheel when it hit the rocks. Undeterred, RTE procured another boat - three of the original crew abandoned the show as well as the ship and were replaced. After one day, one of the new crew members gave up - seasick (it must be a very rigorous selection process).
Caption:Tim Severin's Brendan, now housed in The Craggaunowen Project in Co. Clare. Severin and his crew sailed the boat across the Atlantic in 1976 to prove that it would have been possible for St. Brendan to make a similar journey in the sixth century. Though probably not with the crew on Cabin Fever
Posted by Monasette at July 14, 2003 10:09 PM | TrackBack