Can anyone identify this boat?

[carlos.mendieta]

Hello! Sorry but I only have the one view.
whatisit.jpg

Its like a double ender, but not.

Anyway, thought it was interesting.

Thanks,
Car

[carlos.mendieta]

Looks like the bottom half of a bolger windsprint that is topped off.. for balast and flotation? then flairs out with a transom on the top half.

[Peerie Maa]

It looks like am Irish gandalow, from Limerick and the Shannon The build of a new one was documented on the web.

[carlos.mendieta]

I think that's it! thanks Nick

[NickW]

Carlos, welcome to the forum. There's a lot more information and some sketch plans for the Irish Gandelow here. http://www.beautement.com/Boats/15-f..._gandelow.html

Nick

[Peerie Maa]

Hello! Sorry but I only have the one view.
whatisit.jpg

Its like a double ender, but not.

Anyway, thought it was interesting.

Thanks,
Car

Carlos, welcome to the forum. There's a lot more information and some sketch plans for the Irish Gandelow here. http://www.beautement.com/Boats/15-f..._gandelow.html

Nick

Yep, same boat methinks

[carlos.mendieta]

Thanks! i've been floating around here for about a year. Lots of minds sharing great information.

[pbeautement]

Hi Carlos,

(apologies that the reply is 2 years too late!)

Yes, that's a new gandelow being built at the Ilen Maritime School in Limerick in 2014 (for the City of Culture celebrations). Four were built.

In addition to gandelow links below, see this wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandelow

The old one by the water is a classic gandelow (the oak pads at the stem and stern post are typical, as is the net locker platform at the stern).
They were community salmon fishing / reed cutting boats that rarely lasted more the 20 years or so. As they were used on the Shannon river in western Ireland, even going out a little way into the Atlantic, keeping a rotting boat was not a good idea so new ones were, until more recently, always being built.

Hope this helps

Best wishes, Patrick B