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9th March 2023

Long-Abandoned Trawler Removed From Waterford Pier

Waterford’s local authority has removed a long-abandoned trawler that had become a magnet for fly-tipping and vermin at a scenic pier, as the Irish Examiner reports.

The fishing vessel was once part of a fleet of ‘50-footers’ promoted by Bord Iascaigh Mhara and the Irish Sea Fisheries Association up to the 1970s in an effort to revitalise Ireland’s fishing fleet and boost employment in coastal communities.

However, the trawler was left to rot at Tinabinna pier over 20 years ago and with efforts to trace its owner unsuccessful, Waterford City & County Council commissioned its demolition and removal.

The Irish Examiner has more on the story HERE.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago