Take a NARROWBOAT to IRELAND? | Cruise the RIVER SHANNON | How much does it cost? [Ep 53]
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- In this weeks video I travel to Ireland to visit my friend Sandra Willis who has taken her narrowboat over and is now cruising the River Shannon, after cruising some of the Irish canals as well as Lough Derg. We visit lots of potential moorings on some of the huge loughs including PortRunny harbour, Roosky, Lough Key, Lough Ree, Lacarrow Harbour, Port Carrick and Athlone. We also travel to Galway in search of adventure and good pubs and then onto Athlone to visit Seans Bar - the oldest Pub in Ireland and experience proper Guiness, Irish Coffees and Live Irish Music...
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Finally, someone did a Vlog on Irish canals. I've been wondering what the canal situation was in Ireland. Glad it was you that did it. You're more fun!! The Foxes (pre-chicken days) covered Scotland really well. I learned a lot from your Vlog. I even learned that not all boats are Ladies 😁
Thanks for watching Doug 😃🏴☠️
We took our 50 ft NB to Ireland in 1999 and had 2 years exploring. My advice is to use an Irish haulier to take your boat over as they will be doing a return load. The lakes are big and the wind comes up quick but be prepared to wait for the weather, it’s often best to start really early in the mornings. There seem to be a lot more moorings when we were there but also lot more boats. Lough Erene in the North is really worth exploring.
Fab David, Sandra has already started her adventure and is loving it now 😃🏴☠️
Yes. There is usually less wind in the morning. The wind tends to pick up late morning and then can get worse in the afternoon ... then usually (usually!) calms down in the evening. Best to leave as early as you can and moor up by late morning if you have a flat bottom NB.
I just slapped a powerful outboard on the back of mine and powered it over the Irish Sea. Each to their own...
Great seeing Sandra what an eye opener .
Yes .. it’s scary stuff Michael 😃🏴☠️
Love Sandra’s dogs love animals and her teeshirt
Welcome to Ireland 😊🇨🇮
Thank Annie 😃🏴☠️
Brilliant vlog again! I got all tipsy just watching it! Great to see Sandra in her element there, she is a brave one and i hope she did find a companion boat for those journeys ❤❤❤
Lovely vlog, great to see the waterways of Ireland, gorgeous part of the world with lovely people :)
Thank you for watching … yes it was absolutely fabulous there 😄🇮🇪❤️🏴☠️
Thank you for watching … yes it was absolutely fabulous there 😄🇮🇪❤️🏴☠️
Looks like fun!
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I had a fab time George 😄🏴☠️ thank you
Wow Mrs. This is one of your best vlogs. What an amazing and brave women. So cheap living but not to get over there. Love it. Take care Mrs..
Thanks Narrowboat Will 😁
Haha thanks Will 😃🏴☠️❤️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate I didn't notice it wasn't you ripperess. Ha
Wouw never thought about canals in Ireland, what a trip you took us on there. Fascinating ☺️🤗
Awww it was a absolutely amazing, I had a fabulous time there ❤️🏴☠️
Brilliant x
Thank you
Thank you for watching 😃🏴☠️
Loved the video. Great.
Funny Hat Phil
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Fab. Much love to Sandra 💕💕
She is watching these comments so I’m sure she will see this 😃🏴☠️❤️
Aw thank you xx Love to all you guys too 💕
Great to see Ireland. It is very different cruising but so good to see.
Thanks Helly 😄🏴☠️
Well done, music to dance to. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it Richard 😃🏴☠️
Loved this one! Great to see the boaters life over the sea.
Thank you 🏴☠️😃
This video is fantastic. Thank you.
Thank you for watching 😃🏴☠️
Brilliant 🙂🏴☠️✌️
Thanks Lee 😄❤️🏴☠️
Thanks!
Thanks Michael 😄🏴☠️
one word brilliant
Thanks Anthony 😃🏴☠️
Interesting. Thank you
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Loved this one
Thank you 🏴☠️😄
This is superb. Really enjoyed this. This is something we’d do in the future when we can afford it. Brilliant xx
Thanks Helen … I can just see you and your plastic toe on the River Shannon 😂❤️🏴☠️
What a beautiful country thank for sharing I would never get to see this wow I loved the cartoon van with your friends and you taking a swig what a laugh for sure thank you Heidi for your time ❤your friend from Orlando
Awww thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️
Was originally going to skip this one, but glad I watched it. It was very interesting.
Wow that looks amazing what a wonderful place to go visit
Aww Caroline, it was amazing 😃❤️🏴☠️
What a fab video, never been to Ireland....pubs look fab 😂 xxx
Aww Sandra it was amazing 😃🏴☠️
Brilliant! Thanks for the cracking vlog.
Thanks Michelle 😄🏴☠️
Enjoyed the vlog…lreland looks beautiful x
Thanks Michael… I loved my time there 😃🏴☠️
Absolutely loved this video lovely to see you chilling out wow what a brave lady she is I would poo my pants on the river Shannon great to see some of Ireland the pubs are so alive and welcoming another place on my bucket list… thanks for taking us with you ☠️
Thanks so much for watching Sheila 😃🏴☠️
Thanks Sheena 😃
I bloody love Heidi ❤️ ❤❤
I loved watching this video, thankyou ❤️
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
To much fun. I would like to follow along.
That was a suprise nice one
Thanks Richard 😃🏴☠️
What a beautiful Irish adventure! 🤩
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
I've seen vids about fishing on Irish canals, but there's very little about the canal boating situation there so this is great. I believe there's a lot of potential for canal restoration in NI which is interesting. Thanks so much for this Heidi!
Thanks for watching 😃🏴☠️
love it....
Thanks Al 😃🏴☠️
look forward to these every week x
@@Al-yx7ut thank you 😃🏴☠️
better stop msg you some one will start talking ,, have a good one ,,,,look forward to next week x
Great video 😀😀😀
Thank Gary 😄🏴☠️
Seems like a lovely time away ❤️
Thanks Jan, it was lovely 😃🏴☠️
Enjoyed your Ireland time and your friends very much.
Thank you 😊🏴☠️
Well well well Heidi I can see you're in you element ,great Pubs lots of
Music and Guinness too.
What a lovely bunch of people your friends are ,the cottage looks really nice.
Galway looks fantastic and well worth a visit too and the Guinness
is a real bonus. When I was sailing out of Manchester Guinness had
a ship called the Lady Patricia a tanker who brought Guinness from
Ireland to the uk .When we ever had a party we would visit
her and come back to our ship carrying buckets of the Brown Gold.
The Shannon looks really lovely I considered it for a vacation before
we emigrated but ended up on the Norfolk Broads instead which was really
enjoyable.
A great vlog Heidi I'm sure you enjoyed your trip I sure did
.Safe travels, take care and happy cruising. XXX
I can just see you sneaking off with a bucket of black stuff 😂😂 thanks for watching Ralph 😄🏴☠️
YOU are a blessing how else could a couple of old salts see such beauty 1000 points.
Aww thank you John 🏴☠️😄
Thanks for vlog
Thank you ❤️
You have the best friends! And of course that means YOU are the best of friends too. 🙂 My grandmother, Anna McNamara, was born along the shores of the River Shannon, and my birth name is Anna as well. And I have "Viking" DNA! Me hearties!!! Sandra is super at boat handling and keeping watch on the weather/wind. This video reminds me of cruising in Puget Sound in the USA and in the Canadian Gulf Islands, all on the west coast here, except that we also have tremendous tide height differences to deal with, four times a day. BUT, we don't have shallow draft flat bottom boats like the narrowboats, so the deeper keels on our boats help us a great deal. And yep, you gotta have balls. 🙂 LOL! oopsie, that place was built in 1584 and Christopher Columbus was here ... but Heidi, Christopher Columbus died in 1506, someone was twisting your tail. yikes. Still, that place has great super history. And I love your vlog, all things about it.
😂😂 I read it on the info board 😂😄 he must have come through before they built it then 😂 thanks again Ann - it was an amazing place 😄🏴☠️
My wife has family at Castleconnell, Mount Shannon and Portumna on the Shannon/Loch Derg, and in Galway. We paid for my Mum and Dad to have a week over there for their 50th Wedding anniversay. They has a lovely time, so we asked if they would go again, to which Betty replied "Oh no, why on earth would we want to do that. It's just like Yorkshire, we don't need to go there, we can stay at home". You don't get to choose your family.
😂😂 oh it was so amazing, but yes Yorkshire is gorgeous too 😂🏴☠️❤️
Great video.
Certainly enjoyed it. I had no idea that there was such large lakes there and never gave canals a thought. I learn something every time I view one of your presentations. Big thank you
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment 😄🏴☠️
Wonderful, love that video, one day maybe xx
Wow wait a minute this was better than a BBC production. Absolutely brilliant stuff guys very good and so funny too.The waterways are brilliant in Ireland but I have to say the river Barrow is my favourite.
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Very Inspirational ladies doing the unusual. Sandra you are a natural at presenting, very informative, brilliant!
Love the cartoon camper van. Xx
Thanks mum 😂😂🏴☠️
Thanks Rosalind xxx
Loved this video
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Another v interesting vlog😊, you are good you!
Been to both north n south Ireland, mostly south, been well pissed quite a few times in Galway, we always started our drinking in a Galway pub with a red Indian statue out front, also a wooden row boat inside, there was traditional music all afternoon, all musicians jamming, paid band started in the boat around 7pm, but by then we were fairly oiled up, Great country, always made most welcome.
They were very welcoming, thanks Andy 😄🏴☠️
WOW! just WOW!
Thanks Mick 😄🏴☠️
Good video. Very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it 😃🏴☠️
Brilliant, its given me confidence that its possible to live on board full time in Ireland. Would love to meet some of the boating community here, I live near Boyle and Carrick on Shannon if anyone is reading this.
Hi lilesosanna. Your best bet is to head down to the harbours either Boyle, Lough Key or Carrick & just chat to boaters down there. Unfortunately I'm a long way away this year as I'm just about to head into Dublin & do the River Liffey so I'm right across the other side of ireland! You can always follow Golden Boyz blog to see whereabouts I am. I should be back your way next year as intending on doing Lough Erne next year.
@@sandrawillis9281 thanks sandra have the blog bookmarked If you need crew on lough erne or even some one to make the tea to steady your nerves let me know
You never seem to disappoint us Heidi you're always bringing us terrific content, Ireland is a beautiful country and thank you for bringing it to all of us from your perspective and very educational as well, Happy Days girl😎🇨🇦
Thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️
Most enjoyable feel like I have been on holiday. What great friends you have safe journey back to your boat
Thanks Kath 😄🏴☠️
Go back to that cute waiter you had at that first pub. I had an aunt, homophobic pig but still, her husband was a Irish famous footballer David Clements. They loved over there for a few years and brought back the Irish Pub Storytelling, so one night at a family reunion we all had to go around telling stories. It was a blast
Sounds lovely Alan 😄🏴☠️
Loved it… what an awesome idea to share with the rest of us a first hand view of Ireland… and it’s waterways…and the different boats… looking forward to exploring the web in narrowboat travels over there… from the net of course…lol. Thank you so much for taking us along with you… you done did good…
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Absaloutly amazing, what a great experience that would be and a cheaper way of seeing Ireland instead of paying hotel fees. Enjoy your trip.. 😊
Thanks Judie 😃🏴☠️
Hello Heidi - greetings from Poland
A real travelog! Fantastic video giving a real flavour of boating on The Shannon and its lakes. I hope you enjoyed yourself.
Oh Michael it was amazing and Sandra has now completed all the huge loughs and is heading towards the canals for winter 😄🏴☠️❤️
Best country and people in the world, a brilliant vlog Heidi and you won't get Guinness like it anywhere else in the world. Thanks for this.😊
Aww thanks for watching David 😄🏴☠️
Awesome! Loved seeing Ireland and the loughs. Sandra does indeed have mahoosive balls! Slante 🍻
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Loved every second of this video! Brilliant!
Thank you ❤️🏴☠️
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.......XX
Thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️
Look at those fluffy white clouds beautiful!
What a fantastic Vlog, Shiver me Timbers that boat had big balls.
I know 😂😂🏴☠️
Wow that's an awesome vlog love the look of Ireland, but I don't have a passport. Keep up the brilliant work 👍 and enjoy yourself 🙂🙂🙂
Thanks Karen 😃🏴☠️
Absolutely fantastic video, we really enjoyed. Heidi, You'd make a brilliant reporter. and Sandra you look very well. I love following you on your journey.
Thanks Lisa xx
Thanks Lisa 😄🏴☠️
what a lovely adventure
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Another great video Heidi, very informative. We love Ireland we have spent many a happy holiday over there and the people are fantastic. Must say our favourite place has to be Galway also. Keep them coming.
Thank you 😃🏴☠️ it’s a fabulous place 😃
Very nice. Thanks for taking us along.
Thanks for joining us Kert 😄🏴☠️
Never fear Ralphie is here ,going to watch the vlog and buy a barrel of Guinness for you...back laterX
😂😂 thanks Ralph 😄🏴☠️
I wondered what had happened to Sandra since she gave up the dogging business. I thought she’d emigrated to Ireland to get away from you because you were such a bad influence on her. Now I see it was the other way round! I mean, just look at how she dragged you, kicking and screaming with your toes ploughing furrows in the pavements into those bars for a drink! Seriously, though, that was a fantastic video. Makes me want to go for a visit myself 🤩
😂😂 thanks Sheila … it was fabulous, I loved it 😄🏴☠️❤️
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What a super adventure that must be, taking a narrowboat across to Ireland. Thanks, Heidi I really enjoyed riding along with you on your Irish trip. What great buddies you have. All the best. Stephen
Awww thanks Stephen 😃🏴☠️❤️
Brilliant informative video and what a lady to do that. All of you make us proud could not believe some of the servicing and Marina prices! Thanks again Heidi. Overwater Marina on the Shroppie. Rum waiting. Mark.
Thanks Mark 😄🏴☠️
Hi Heidi I follow your youtube clips And absolutely love them and you and your adventures on the Rum Wench Ive just discovered this clip And when you were in McHughs Bar Carrick on Shannon That was me singing with my daughter Freda our group is called Featherhead 😊 Its a small world I actully remember seeing you there Jeep up the good work 😊
Oh wow!! That’s amazing, what a small world 🌎 you were brilliant 🎵❤️😄
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Thank you
Hi .. wow I am sure we all agree that we think you are brave as you also do alot of narrow boating alone .Ireland looked great place and you looked as if you had lots of fun ...thanks for the interesting vlog ...
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Loved this week's video Heidi and really enjoyed seeing around Ireland. What a nice surprise.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Buried treasure, high seas? Shiver me timbers 🏴☠️😆 I loved this vlog..thank you for sharing 🏴☠️
😂😂 thanks Lizzy 😄🏴☠️
Yay! You went to Ireland whoo hoo! That is awesome. I enjoyed the glimpse .. so beautiful 💕 it was very interesting, thanks for all the history too. Truly appreciate it. Now I gotta wait another week to see what you get up to next 😜😜 🍷 🥃 🥃
😂 thanks Elaine 😄🏴☠️
Love the adventure, thank you so very much for sharing - Big hugs from Nova Scotia Canada
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Ireland, another country that I love but have and will never step foot on. The vlog is fun and your network of boaters is amazing. I love little communities, it's the way to live. Take care =-) and Sandra have a safe trip =-)
Thanks Lorraine 😃🏴☠️❤️
Thank you Lorraine 😊
Brilliant!
Thanks Jayne 😄🏴☠️
Wow!!! Loved this adventure!!! 👍👍👍
Thanks Donna 😃🏴☠️
Loved the vlog. Would love to go to Ireland. My grandad was from Dublin. Will put it on my buckets list. Glad you had a great time. Got 3 goldren retrievers too. Super.
Oooh do it 😃🏴☠️ it was a fabulous place 😃🏴☠️
Hope Pudding is doing better.
He is doing great … he was on last weeks video 😃🏴☠️
About 40 years ago we and our two boys hired a cruiser from Carrick on Shannon to Lough Derg and back. Apart from the alarmingly large waves when we got to Lough Derg, which made us turn back, we found the locks on the river a bit of a drawback, as sometimes we had to wait an hour of two until the lock keeper felt there were enough boats to justify operating the lock. Perhaps things have changed over the years. We had one bit of excitement on Lough Ree when we found that we were towing a length of rope instead of a dinghy! We did get it back after a search.
Aww Tim, that sounds stressful …. Sandra had almost covered all of the canals and rivers now, she reckons another year and she would have completed Ireland 😃🏴☠️
wow Heidi absolutely brilliantly presented
total respect to Sandra - fantastic
so interesting & not a hangover in sight :)
😂😂 cheers Lloyd 🏴☠️
Thanks Lloyd
Im only sad I can upvote only once! Wonderful place and people too! You made me learn something too, never knew Eire had canals!
Oh Steve, I absolutely loved it and everyone was so friendly … such an amazing place 😄❤️🏴☠️
Oh my, how do I spell ENVIOUS? Yep, that I am! Thank you for the opportunity to go along!
Aww thanks for watching Vickie 😃🏴☠️
Crackin’! Going from the beautiful Peak Forest canal and on to gorgeous, spacious and fresh Ireland loughs, must be exhilarating! Happy journey, Pirate mrs
Back on the Peak next week though haha … but it was a lovely break 😃🏴☠️
Thanks for the video… Ireland 🇮🇪 is definitely a beautiful place…stay safe and take care !!
Thank you, it was a beautiful place 😃🏴☠️❤️
I met Jan and Allister in Ballyconnell on the Shannon Erne waterway back in 2018, I think. It's a beautiful barge they have. The Erne waterway is mostly in Northern Ireland. It is stunning and well worth the 16 lock stretch along the Shannon Erne Waterway. Check out Derryvunny at the top of Lough Key too.
What a great Vlog, wow ireland looks amazing what a fab lady to do that on her own, something we would love in a few years xx
Yes, she has some balls …. Thanks so much for watching and good luck on your own adventure 😃🏴☠️
Thank you Jacqueline
This was great. New information but still narrow boats.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Brilliant video, thanks. You leave Sandra`s balls alone LOL. Beautiful lady with attitude.
😂😂 she does have some huge ones 😂🏴☠️
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❤. Always