The Pearl
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Following my canoe adventures with Minnow in 2021, I bought a 15ft open sailing dinghy. She is a 'Swallows and Amazons' style Gunter rigged sloop. The hull, formed of thin overlapping planks fastened together with copper rivets, harks back to the Nordic clinker boat tradition.
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​I have called her The Pearl in honour of the Irish photographer Jane W. Shackleton, the nineteenth-century photographer, whose custom-built vessel was likewise named. 
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Lilliput Harbour, Lough Ennel, 2022.
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Lough Ennel, 2022.
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The Lake of Kings, Lough Ree. 2021.
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The Lake of the Red Eye, Lough Derg. 2021