Marine journalist and sailor Arthur Reynolds has passed away peacefully in Blackrock, Co Dublin, in his 94th year.
Reynolds, founding Editor/Publisher of The Irish Skipper and publisher in the mid-1970s of Ireland Afloat, was a lifetime sub-editor and a former night editor in The Irish Times. Before pursuing journalism, he studied art in Paris and spent his early journalistic years in London before working for The Irish Press and The Irish Times.
He was a keen sailor and traveller, a long-time advocate of the fishing industry and Ireland's marine potential, and an early Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club member. He often cited the late maritime historian Dr John de Courcy Ireland as being a major influence on his life. When he was in his eighties, he and his late wife Borghild undertook several sea passages on the Norwegian sail training ship, Statsraad Lehmkuhl.
As his death notice states, Arthur will be remembered for his wit, wisdom, love of the sea, his mastery of the newspaper headline, and for the epitaph, he refashioned: "Pass on by, Death horseman, Cast a life, On cold eye".
He is survived by his son Fintan, stepdaughter Anne and extended family and friends. A full obituary will appear later. His funeral details are here
