Enda O'Coineen

I was always interested in doing things.

And some years ago, I pulled into a place called Port Chalmers, South Island, New Zealand, a place called in Ortego Bay.

And it was serendipity.

It was absolutely...

a week to the hundred years where Shackleton had left from on one of his voyages.

So I was invited to the Shackleton Society in Athai.

The whole Shackleton story, it's not so much what he did as an explorer and as an adventurer.

Shackleton was a role model in leadership.

He studied in the Harvard Business School and there's a big revival of interest together with him and Tom Green and many other Irish sailors who were on the

the famous Shackleton expeditions.

And so what we're doing is we're part of what we call the Grace O'Malley fleet.

And there's Pamela Lee, who's an Irish sailor.

She's brought eight other French teams with her.

So we're extending that out.

So it's really...

You know, it's an appetite.

Like when I was younger than I am now, I went out on the original Asgard and it introduced me to the ocean.

And this is at a different stage now.

This is a sort of a modern dynamic racing boat, but it's the same fundamentals.

Well, you know, the Atlantic Youth Trust, which are the charity which I'm involved in, its mission is to connect young people with the ocean and adventure.