Galway Hookers
The black-hulled Galway hookers with their tanned sails were once essential to the economy of the people of the west coast of Ireland.
The hookers carried fuel to the outlying islands and returned to the mainland with crops and cattle.
Now people race in vessels their parents used to work. Narrator Tom Salmon Photography TIM JOHNSON Sound ROGER LONG
Film editor SUSANNE OUTLAW Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol