Tony McGregor has revealed Conor’s first yacht has taken a battering after powerful winds have left the boat badly damaged.
Powerful winds and rain battered the country on Thursday night as Met Eireann issued a number of weather warnings.
Dubliner Tony updated his followers on the status of the 188 – saying the boat took a battering and is in need of repair.
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Sharing a video of the damage, he captioned the post: “The 188 took a hit from a stormy Thursday night.”
The boat had its yawning torn down by the wind, among other knocks it took.
He then shared a view of the externals of the boat, complete with the promise that she would be back to 100% soon.
He proclaimed: "The 188 will be restored to its original pristine condition."
The boat was called "The 188" after the amount in euros to social welfare his UFC star son got, before he became famous.
Tony – who describes himself as an "international yachtsman of leisure" - was gifted the boat by his son and continues to sail it around Dublin.
In 2021, Tony revealed that he got into difficulty out in the water on the boat after the batteries went dead on the yacht while he was out at Dalkey’s Pilot View in Dublin.
Tony revealed to us at the time: “It was a captain’s error. I went out to Dalkey to Pilot View. I dropped an anchor and I had swimmers on board. They were swimming off the 188. So they were swimming and jumping off the cliffs there for about an hour and a half.
“I dropped the anchor, and I switched the engines off, but I put on the navigation lights and that was the problem. My navigation lights were running the batteries down.
“So, when I went to pull up the anchor, the anchor was on an electric wince, I went to pull up the anchor there was no power. The electric wince wasn’t working – so I knew there was an electrical issue, but I didn’t know at the time I drained the batteries.”
The 62-year-old seaman said he made a “classic yachtsman error” and he ended up having to call the RNLI for help.
“It was a classic yachtsman’s error. These engines are bulletproof Volvo Penta marine engines, they’ve a lot of power in them. There are two engines on the 188. When I switched over the engines, it just wouldn’t crank over so I knew the batteries were dead.
“I put in a call to MGM boats, who look after the mechanics of it, and they were away at the time and the yard was closed so they couldn’t come to my aid," he said at the time.
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