So Winter Solstice is a boat. She's a Rampart 32, built in Southampton, made from timber and 40 years old. The baby is our sailing dinghy. In this picture they're both in Mountshannon Harbour on Lough Derg.
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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.
Hi I used to own her as Burma Star in UK-awesome boat! Scott
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