Captain George

George has been with us since the beginning of July 2022. The timing of our Oyster World Rally was perfect for him, it coincided with his Transition Year at school. The Transition Year in Irish schools marks the beginning of the senior cycle and final 3 years of school before a student goes to university or into the workplace. The year provides an opportunity to help students to develop skills and attitudes which hopefully have a particular impact on their personal development and their orientation towards further study, adult life, and/or work. Many students get a job in an interest area which can help them decide if this area is really for them in the long term. George has always loved sailing. He has completed most of the dinghy sailing courses over the past few summers. He was perfectly placed to join Irene IV and learn more about sailing and do a lot of growing up, as well as availing of the opportunity of spending time with his father (and his aunt). George is now many feet taller than his Dad, (not saying much, as Louis is 5’7’’!) emotionally so much more mature (although still a pain in the neck, only joking!), with a shock of white blond hair in a mullet haircut, and above all, is a valuable crew member able to be a deck hand on any boat. One of George’s Transition Year requirements is to present a project when he returns to school after Easter. As I write, he is working on his project, a presentation of all the countries he has visited, the oceans he has crossed and what he has learned. George is a good writer, as you have seen in the blogs he has posted here for Irene IV, so his project will be very interesting and well written and presented.