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Died: December 18, 2020. IN 1976, a 36-foot leather boat graunched up on a beach of the Hebridean island of Iona. The two-masted curragh, Brendan, had been made out of quarter-inch-thick skins from 49 cattle, sewn with almost two miles of leather thongs on to a highly flexible oak and ash frame that was designed to bend with the waves. Its skipper, Tim Severin, who has died in Ireland aged 80, was a slender and dapper young man who was once described as being like a golf-club secretary. ...

Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America January 6, 2021 — 12.52pm Normal text size Advertisement Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers like St. Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died aged 80 on December 18 at his ho...

Tim Severin, explorer who retraced the journeys of Ulysses and Genghis Khan – obituary In his most famous expedition he crossed the Atlantic in the wake of St Brendan the Navigator in a 36-ft wooden ox-hide covered currach Tim Severin Tim Severin, the explorer, who has died aged 80, made his name in a highly specialised niche of travel literature: retracing epic journeys made by historical and mythological figures. Inspired by the voyages of his hero Thor Heyerdahl, Severin’s “replica j...