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Classic wooden speedboat build , sink, search for, recovery and rebuild.

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    ezra_ wrote: »
    Sorry dude.

    What happens with the boat they raised? Back to the bottom?


    No one of the guy's is taking her and is going to fix it up.




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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Hang on, is that boat you are towing in the photo what was on the sonar image?

    If so, wow. Just wow!.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭BowWow


    fergal.b wrote: »
    No one of the guy's is taking her and is going to fix it up..

    Fibreglass?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    This weekends find looks the right size and shape, we shall see. :)

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Fingers crossed!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭biketard


    Good luck, fergal!


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,664 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I'm afraid to get my hopes up.
    Been so disappointed in the past!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    I'm afraid to get my hopes up.
    Been so disappointed in the past!

    A bit like that myself now :)



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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,664 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    fergal.b wrote: »
    A bit like that myself now :)



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    I can only imagine.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    OSI wrote: »
    Need yourself an underwater drone Fergal.

    Only getting about a foot of visibility with my underwater camera, the water is brown from all the Peat bogs :( you would need a few weeks of very cam weather for it all to settle.




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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I must admit I hadn't realised there'd be so many vessels under water, that was a real surprise.

    Hope your next trip is the lucky one, Fergal. :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    A Lough Ree you have to be kidding me 3 in the one spot within 100 feet of each other.


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    Pat McManus put these together all the boats found in the search area so far, hard to believe.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    The Lough Ree Triangle ;);)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,784 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Any update on the one found on sonar about 2 weeks ago? It really looked like the right shape!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Any update on the one found on sonar about 2 weeks ago? It really looked like the right shape!

    No the divers haven't got a chance yet maybe over the winter when things quite down a bit.




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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭ezra_


    fergal.b wrote: »
    No the divers haven't got a chance yet maybe over the winter when things quite down a bit.




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    Seriously - garden hose, concrete block and a rope ladder - you'll be grand!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    ezra_ wrote: »
    Seriously - garden hose, concrete block and a rope ladder - you'll be grand!

    It really is like "mission impossible" along with trying to find the boat when the divers go down they have to be lowered as any kick of their flippers will stir up the silt. It's just not worth the risk of me going down as there could be ropes and fenders floating around that I could get caught up in, she already pulled me down by the kill cord and it wasn't till my lifejacket went off that I broke free It might have only been a second or two but it seemed a lot longer I'm not going to give her a second chance :)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Have been following this from the start Fergal. Have to say you're a determined man. I wish you the best of luck with your search, hope success comes soon.
    Whenever you have spare time, I've a haystack and you'll never guess what I've lost in it! ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,067 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Good luck Fergal, she was a work of art.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Beautiful boat. Can I ask, what kind of a sander and what kind of epoxy is best for a wooden boat?


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    bilbot79 wrote: »
    Beautiful boat. Can I ask, what kind of a sander and what kind of epoxy is best for a wooden boat?


    Random orbital sander gives the best finish, and I used West systems epoxy it's not cheep but it's easy to work with and there are lots of videos online to help you out.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Random orbital sander gives the best finish, and I used West systems epoxy it's not cheep but it's easy to work with and there are lots of videos online to help you out.



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    Thanks! It looks superb


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,938 ✭✭✭Bigus


    fergal.b wrote: »
    Random orbital sander gives the best finish, and I used West systems epoxy it's not cheep but it's easy to work with and there are lots of videos online to help you out.



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    If it comes up looking good after a year under water, west epoxy will have one hell of an advertising platform.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 446 ✭✭SCOL


    At this stage you could probably sell tickets for the lifting of the boat.

    Hope we all get to see it soon.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Last weekend was probably my last chance to get out there was only 3 foot 2 inches of water going through the markers at Coosan point :eek: and thats taken from the skimmer transducer on the surface not the one on my keel.



    Also my jetty is on the bottom and I'm not too far away form it.

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    The levels are looking to keep on dropping :( on the up side I may be able to see the boat when all the water is gone :).


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  • Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭AdrianLM


    Hi Fergal,

    Judging by the amount of rain we've had up this way today and yesterday (and it looks like it's set to continue) the water levels will probably start rising again.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    AdrianLM wrote: »
    Hi Fergal,

    Judging by the amount of rain we've had up this way today and yesterday (and it looks like it's set to continue) the water levels will probably start rising again.

    I believe it's the ESB that are controlling the levels and they still have all the sluice gates open in Athlone so even with a month of rain I don't think it will make any difference :( It's probably more to do with flood protection and that's fair enough but I have never seen the water this low I think they are also draining Lough Allen.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭AdrianLM


    Ahh Gotcha, I assumed it was a symptom of the dry spell during the summer.

    Understandable then as the ESB got a lot of flack a few years ago when they hadn't done this before the winter when Athlone last got flooded. Still a gamble though as we can end up getting very dry winters every few years.

    I was wondering, Is there a current through Lough Ree from North to South as it's effectively a wide section of the Shannon?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    So for my black Friday Christmas present I got one of these :D

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    A quick check of the prop, I think I need a bit more training :)





    What it should look like.




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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    That's going to be fun to use.....and really useful for the search


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