If you’re looking for a boat canopy or just a good boat canopy design Cameron has plenty boat canopy ideas so you’ll enjoy this vlog. The boat canopy in this video was created by Cameron from Coast Covers and you can contact them through their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/boatcoverman
River Shannon Blueway
There are no end of great places to visit on the river, but the River Shannon Bluway is one that really should be on your bucket list. Join us as we take a trip from Battlebridge to Acres Lake near Drumshanbo along the tow path.
Picking Up A Mooring Buoy
Picking Up A Mooring Buoy singlehanded or with a crew needn’t be difficult. When I first tried picking up a mooring buoy I got it completely wrong. But now I know the right way when picking up a mooring ball or buoy. It’s not at all difficult, and this video makes it so easy.
Oh PS: If you would like to buy our book “Driftwood from the Shannon to the Marne” the story of our sea journey from Ireland to the French canals, follow this link: https://www.driftwood.tv/shop and thank you.
Boating Europe
The best boating Europe has to offer is here in Ireland. The River Shannon is probably the best boating in Europe. With dozens of beautiful lakes, free moorings, only 6 locks in 365Klm of river. It’s clearly the best Boating Europe has to offer. Oh did I mention the fishing, the great food and the Guinness too?
Winter of 20/21 – So here’s what’s been happening.
The winter of 20/21 has been the longest on record, or at least it seems that way. Boating has not been an option, but at least the end is in sight now. Meanwhile this is what we’ve been up to.
So here’s our Jerusalema Challenge!
I think that we may have been in lockdown for too long, and that this is the sort of thing that can happen as a result! Hope you enjoy it 😉 H&M
Victron Inverter Charger Installation
Victron Inverter Charger Installation on a boat or RV. Just how useful is a Victron Inverter Charger? How can an inverter charger install make your off grid life more comfortable? How easy is it to fit one? Here’s a step by step guide.
December boating – River Shannon
Winter boating on the River Shannon, and we take a look at the Bord Na Mona light railway. Soon this railway will be no more and will disappear into history. Lets hope that we have preserved a little bit of it here to jog those memories.
Jet Skies; love them or loath them?
It may help to love them more or loath them less if you understand the science behind their users: You see it’s all about sex. Read on and you’ll see why!
In Strokestown in Co Roscommon there is a large population of beautiful Peacocks. These magnificent birds wander about the town as if they own the place. But what a sight it is to see one of them displaying their full train of feathers.
It certainly is an impressive sight. And so it should be too, after all it is intended to impress. Not to impress you or me but to impress the female Peahens. You see the male Peacock is just trying to attract a mate.
So what has that to do with jet skis? Well maybe you’re starting to get the picture now. You see there is a very good reason why the young male jet skiers, doesn’t strut his stuff where he can’t be seen.
Oh no, Jet skiers almost always, don their tightfitting rubber suits, and display their skill wherever there is an audience. Like a marina, or just that quiet mooring that, up until now, you were enjoying. In much the same way as the Peacock only displays his train of feathers when there is a suitable female about.
As the Jet skier bounces about creating ever bigger and bigger splashes he is, (maybe on some subconscious level) trying to impress the female of his species.
If successful, the jet skier will mate with a suitable admirer and produce offspring that will themselves one day strut their stuff outside a marina on their own jet ski. 😉
Boating in Ireland
Boating in Ireland isn’t only for the summer months. Cruising the Shannon river in Ireland is always a haphazard affair when it comes to the weather. But boating on the river Shannon is one of the few holidays you can enjoy even in poor weather. So join us as we go boating in Ireland in autumn.
Virgin Media One & DBB
On Tuesday 27th-Sep-20 Virgin Media One contacted us to ask if they could use footage from the Driftwood Boat Blog in a feature they were doing on the Six O’Clock Show that evening. The feature was about the River Shannon and we were delighted to allow them to use the footage. We were also very honoured that they felt our video was up to TV standards and so we gave ourselves a wee pat on the back!!!
Shannon River Cruise to Royal Canal
A Shannon River Cruise to Richmond Harbour at the Royal Canal terminus. A chance to discover some new locations to explore the next time you go on a Shannon river cruise. The river Shannon is a boaters paradise with hundreds of little ‘off channel’ locations to discover. We’ll go through a number of Shannon River locks and a some smaller ones on the Royal Canal too. Join us on one of the best river Shannon cruises ever.