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

Hi just wondering when you were recovered from the water what route did you take back to portlick? If you went left by mains lodge through the black islands or did you go around the blacks and turn left before nuns island and after warren point see the 2 orange lines I drew below? This would kind of give an indication as to where you might have sunk. A south wind on Lough ree is hard to get shelter from as you now know. Was there much of a gap in the big waves? There is a shallow a good bit off the end of the black islands that could have been the cause of them big waves see the purple circle below. I fished all that area and know it fairly well. how come you haven't searched the area circled in white? Did you check the weather for the day you sank was it a full south or South East or west? If you do have any boats you want dived pass them onto James in the sub aqua club and I'll dive them with him anytime 👍

Based on you seeing the sail boat at black brink bay you were closer to the Connaught side of the lake and went down to warren point turning left after the black islands there is an island to your left at 25seconds on the video that I believe is the blacks and the island to your right is nuns island your video sweeps around to the right at the end and it looks like St Johns pt behind you with the hilly land I believe you sank along here somewhere see the purple below. I have sent your video onto a few lads that know the lake well to get their views as well. I put the video on the tv it's way easier to make out the details and stop when you want

No problem at all, you have north to south well covered so maybe start east to west. Go into the left of rindoon pt where it funnels in there we call that warren pt (a south wind tends to blow into that bay) and work your way over to inchmore, it would be handy if you had a lake boat for tipping along slowly in fine weather so you could cover the shallow areas also, let us know if you come across anything interesting and we will dive it even if you think it's not your boat but something of interest

We are hoping to dive that Saturday, I'll let ya know how we get on I believe it's full of timber, it's a decent size boat it will be interesting to see it on the bottom to see what condition it's in

Hi Fergal

Have you the Co ordinates for these 2 by any chance?

We are actually closer to that end of the lake so its perfect Fergal thanks, We normally launch from the clubhouse and head up the lake. Are there any wrecks that weren't dived that you just ruled out by the scanner?

That one there now would definitely interest me, you would wonder what that is on the mound, looks like barrels on a pallet or something, yea i'll look ya up on facebook fergal thanks a million 👍

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