I've just been reading the Shannon byelaws from 1911 while having a glass or two in Lock 17 beside the river in Leitrim. We're here for the WiFi you understand. I was shocked and shamed to learn that we have been in breach of one of these byelaws for the last year. The byelaw says 'Vessels to have their Names painted on them'.
After her hull was painted Winter Solstice went incognito until last week when we were introduced to Paul from Boyle. Ye Iron Lung was in the harbour at Boyle being painted by Rory so she would be in tiptop condition for the Shannon Rally. Rory was having new signs made and so did we. Paul from Boyle even came to the harbour and stuck the names onto each side of the bow. Excellent service.
Hope we don't have to pay the fine for breaching the byelaw though. 5s a day.
The Skipper & Her Mate
The story of Winter Solstice, Joe and I on the Irish Waterways. Published by New Island Books, Dublin.
Unbelonging
My debut poetry collection.
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- Two blogs now. Floating Boater is mostly about our life on the waterways of Ireland on Winter Solstice, our timber cruiser. She's a Rampart 32 built in 1969 in Southampton. She was one of the last this size to come out of the Rampart boatyard – plastic was the material of the future. So a classic but with a definite sixties bent. Every summer we take off on the astonishingly varied waterways of Ireland and enter another, sweeter world. In between I tend my vegetables, look after our acre or so of garden in East Clare, write poetry, and teach and play flute. I occasionally have to do other paid work too. We're on the move from our present house and I have a new acre to begin. So Mucky Fingernails is the gardening wing. It's a record of the creation of a new garden, starting from an open field.
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