ATLANTIC YOUTH TRUST

Connecting youth with
the ocean and adventure

About Atlantic Youth Trust

Atlantic Youth Trust CLG is an Irish registered charity, which exists to build life skills, resilience, and co-operation in youths across the island of Ireland through the challenge of the sea.

Our vision is to be the best youth development tall ship organisation in the world, focused on Education, Youth Development, Training, Tourism, and Enterprise and to proudly represent the maritime dimension of the extraordinary Irish Diaspora story.

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Our Vessels

Grace O'Malley Leader

Leader was built in 1892 for William Robbens by the yard of A W Gibbs at Galmpton Creek on the River Dart, just two miles across the hill from Brixham. She was one of the “big ketches”, a design developed from the original Brixham cutters of the early 19th century.

The cutter-rigged boats were known in Devon as “Mumble Bees”, ketches of up to 40 tons were “mules” and those over that size were “ketches” or even, perversely, “sloops”. Leader represented the pinnacle of the evolution of the sailing trawler at her time and now operates as part of the Grace O’Malley fleet with Atlantic Youth Trust.

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Grace O'Malley Brian Boru

Brian Boru, named after the last High King of Ireland, is a beautiful wooden hulled, traditionally built and rigged gaff ketch. Originally launched in 1961, she worked as a herring ring-netter up until 1989, she was then sold and under new ownership she functioned as a general fisher, up until her decommissioning in 2006.

Following a restoration and conversion project in 2014, she now operates as a Passenger and Sail Training Vessel around the island of Ireland, carrying up to 12 passengers and 3 crew.