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Robert Simper on Hookers.

17th August 2012 By matt_care

Galway hooker stern
Galway hooker stern, Kinvarra Harbour 2012, Picture by Matt Care

By an amazing coincidence, my latest Galway Hooker witterings struck a chord with the fact that I was re-reading Robert Simper’s excellent book, The Cambria Story (Robert Simper, ISBN 978-0-9563299-2-9, pub Creekside Publishing, 2012; available through our shop pages). In the section on the end of trading days (page 29) Robert says that “She had no rivals for her place in history since it was several years since the last Ipswich barge had carried a cargo under sail; only a few hookers on the west coast of Ireland were carrying turf”. So there you go Cambria – you might be last ‘sailorman’ in UK, but maybe not in Western Europe as a whole.

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Cambria is in the drydock at Fullbridge for a scrub and antifoul.
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So beautiful. When she is in Dry dock like that you can really see the diferences between the Kent and Essex barges and the lines of construction. Is that the original Transom cos to me it seems a bit more angular. Wasnt she registered at Rochester originally? Or was it just that she was kept there(flags flying, she was lovely.)

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Here's one from the late sixties in upnor my dad repairing the rudder

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The baggywinkle has been fitted to the barge to stop the mains'l rubbing on the wire when brailed up
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hah never found out that thats what it was called!

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Can I have a bit for the receding hairline!!

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took a few hours to make it

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