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| Name: Pat Cusack location: Bray |
Congratulations on the feature on the BBC Coast programme. it was a great showcase for the currach (canoe), West Clare and the West Clare Currach Club. | |
| Name: James O'Driscoll location: East Clare |
Hi, I’m just wondering what you would recommend for patching a Currach. It’s only a 3” long slit in the canvass. Where could I get my hands on Tar & Canvass in the Clare area? I also heard that some people use denim to patch them. Also is there tar available that you don’t need to add pitch to? Thanks in advance for any help, James | |
| Name: Steve Flannery location: Athlone. |
Keep up the traditional craft lads ! Looking forward to meeting you all again during the 2007 season. | |
| Name: Bob location: cork |
Anyone know where i can get plans to build a homemade small 2 man curruch. Any help would really be appreciated. | |
| Name: Jess Diamondstone location: Southern Vermont, USA |
Hello, we are a family rooted in wilderness craft. My husband, Michael has been building birch bark canoes with crook knife, frow and ax for many years. This spring we plan to produce a film documenting the construction of this ancient boat using pre-contact methods...with stone and bone tools, no steel. We would love to use this as an opportunity to begin a cultural exchange with craftspeople in Ireland. Would anyone like to come join us? In exchange perhaps we could help in some project of a similar nature in Ireland. This could be great fun! Our phone number is 802-254-9403 in Dummerston, Vermont | |
| Name: Al Watkins location: Lexington, VA, USA |
My mom spoke of a boat her family had up at New Quay. Have secured a nice set of plans and hope to build a currach this year to begin a trip to Key West via the intracoastal waterway in my dottage. Also am working the local festivals to start a rowing club here. Will look you up next stay in Ballyvaughan and will keep an eye on your site. Al Watkins Lexington VA USA awatkins5@aol.com | |
| Name: Bob location: Oregon,USA |
Good website. Hope to build a currach soon.Also a return trip to Ireland this spring. | |
| Name: j m bau location: united states |
Hi, I am glad to see this project and the information you have written. I have been doing my genealogy and my grandma had told me that her father had been a carpenter but it wasn't until I did research that I realized my great grandfather was the famous John "Cully" Marrinan. It is exciting to see that some one famous is part of your family tree.I am related to his youngest child Ellen "Nellie" Marrinan who came alone to America in the 1920's when she was only 18.(I have had lots of viruses coming from Ireland while I have been doing my genealogy research so I am sorry about not being more detailed with my personal info.). I would like to learn more about this project. I will privately e-mail you. JM | |
| Name: Tom O'Connor location: Ann Arbor Michigan USA |
Hello, I'm a small boat builder always looking for a new project. I'll be in your neighborhood this coming June, I'd like to stop by and see what your about. Tom | |
| Name: Hilary Russell location: Sheffield, MA 01257, USA |
I'm a skin-on-frame boat builder who would like to build a small currach (8'-12') with someone who knows how to build a currach. I'm especially interested in the ancient connections between coracles and currachs. The basket weaver Joe Hogan's work interests me. At the moment I am building a 10'currach-like boat with red osier dogwwod ribs, spruce stems, stringers, and gunnels, and about 6 rows of willow weaving just beneath the gunwales. Does anyone else share my interests? HR | |
| Name: Brendan Hennessy location: Cork |
13.2.07 Hello Clare! Are ye thinking of joining us at the Barrow Festival on Saturday week the 24th of February? see www.naomhogachorcai.com Hope to see you there, Brendan | |
| Name: Hilary Russell location: hemlockgrange@eathlink.net |
I'd like to take a currach building class | |
| Name: Dave Cowley location: Anglesey, Wales |
Some great material here. Made a Donnegal-type currach/ sea coracle (most materials from a river coracle kit)some years back and fitted with oars. Great fun to use. Would like to build a two or three-man version some time. The bigger boats used to cross the Irish sea and are noted doing so in the Middle-age Welsh text,'Branwen Verch Lyr'; there is still a tiny bay near here called Porth y Corwrgl. | |
| Name: Leah O Sullivan, Laura and Rachel O Niell location: Cooraclare |
We really enjoyed our first season racing this year in West Clare and cant wait till it starts again next year! The Cooraclare Girls. xx | |
| Name: George & Sharon Roche location: Kilkee |
Great site lads, great to see ye keeping up the old tradition best of luck! UP THE BLUES | |
| Name: Kathleen Corletta location: Rehoboth Beach, DE |
Hosting an Irish Festival on the Eastern Shore (Delmarva Peninsula) in the United States. Would like to have a currach exhibit or as much information, pictures, data as possible. Have been to Kilkee several times, love it there. On one visit, Manuel de Luca made my grandsons honorary citizens to our great delight. | |
| Name: Daragh Newman location: Cork |
Topper when are you coming to cork | |
| Name: Thomas & Michelle Mcgrath location: Quin |
Good Luck in the " Great River Race" , we will be there to cheer ye on.. Come on the Blues | |
| Name: Catherine Hassett location: Ennis |
All the best on Sunday to Kieran and all the lads in London!! Keep up the good work and the great website you have. | |
| Name: richard fleming location: Winforton,Herefordshire, England |
I've been building curachs since the 1970s - first of all at Ratagan in Rosshire,in the Scottish highlands, where I used them fishing herring, mackerel, salmon, trout, scampi prawns etc... later in Herefordshire fishing eels commercially. I've built 3 of a Conemara style,but now I've got a 2-handed naomhóg which I built about 4 years ago. Thought you might be interested in collecting information about builders. Last time I was out someone came racing out to rescue me - thought if I was rowing my engine must have packwed in! Richard Fleming. | |
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