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I hope his boat Oakdale is pumped out and refloated!
Sadly it's a dead duck, although Dave is soldiering on trying to revive it. The timber is so rotten that when the tide went out the stern burst with the pressure of the water and there is a gaping hole . The timber planks are about 9" by 2" some of the remnants washed up on the tide, I turned one piece over with my foot and it disintegrated, completely rotten.
It's one of two remaining Mersey sailing barges, it was on it's way to Glasgow to go into drydock for repairs over ten years ago when it was driven into the Duddon estuary by a storm. I am told Dave wasn't very welcome at the North side so he moved over to our side and anchored up in the shelter of the pier, he has been here ever since.
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Robert.