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On 20/07/2020 at 23:04, haggis said:

... the IWA festival at Burton on Trent which we attended on Gamebird. We took the dogs for a walk the first evening and [Gael] disappeared at one point and we found her on board Copperkins our shared boat which was there with other owners. It amazed us how she became aware of the boat from quite a distance when there were hundred of boats there.  Haggis

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Found the Album with the Irish photos. This is Penny using the card system on the Shannon Erne link or the B and B canal.

its a system of connected lochs and river through beautiful country (if the weathers good)

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A great mooring called Houghton Shore and sign at end of the Woodford River.

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1 hour ago, John Liley said:

In Ireland long ago a Grand Canal barge discovered up a creek on the Shannon in the 1960s

 

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Originally they used Bollinders, and there were loads of spares just lying around when I visited the maintenance yard at Tullamore in 1981.

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12 hours ago, Athy said:

We used to pass it (or its twin brother, if it had one) from time to time.moored somewhere on the North Oxford if memory serves. It had an interesting history (perhaps there was a thread about it on here?) though I don't remember the details.

 

Saw the boat at Radford last week. It now has a permanent cabin top and some portholes along the hull.

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12 hours ago, Athy said:

We used to pass it (or its twin brother, if it had one) from time to time.moored somewhere on the North Oxford if memory serves. It had an interesting history (perhaps there was a thread about it on here?) though I don't remember the details.

'Twas between Napton and Braunston 3 years ago. A year later further up the North Oxford but I forget the exact location.

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1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:

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On this day 2016. Heading back into Boston after a choppy run across from Wells next the Sea on our way home from the Norfolk Broads

 

  From August 2015

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and earlier

 

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Compare #2405 (1992)

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Further to my post#2581 The Irish barge 45M. This barge sank in Lough Derg on 1st Dec 1946 whilst on passage from Dublin to Limerick with a cargo of Stout in barrels during very strong wind which caused the cargo to shift and the towline from the tug snapped .Large waves swept into the hold and the crew were thrown into the water. 3 where lost and 1 made it ashore. In 1971 Donnacha Kennedy brought her and went about raising her with the help of the Limerick sub aqua club using plastic barrels and lots of Irish imagination. He says that without an overhaul or complete dismantling the engine started and ran after 26 years under water. Swedish engineering. Subsequently the barge was restored to its original condition. (The stout was un drinkable)

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