This weekend , a cryptic , tar - covered houseboatapparently built by a Canadian adventurerwas strike untenanted on Irish beach — some 3,000 miles from where it was last see .
According to an Irish official , coast guard personnel ab initio mistook the strange watercraft for a travel trailer due to its odd embodiment and size . Once they pulled it ashore , however , authority find the boat had solar panels and an electric motor inside .
The only clue to the trade ’s origin was a cryptic bank bill left scrawled on an inner wall . The note was apparently spell by Rick Small , a Canadian man whomade headlines last yearafter bait a solar - power bike across the body politic .
“ I , Rick Small , donate this complex body part to a roofless youth , ” read the message . “ To give them a undecomposed life that Newfoundlanders choose not to do ! No rent , no mortgage , no hydro . ”
It ’s unclear if the boat was indeed claim by anyone , but a Canadian woman articulate she believe the vessel to be abandoned when she see it floating in Newfoundland in late July .
Other Newfoundland resident say Small ab initio planned to navigate the boat across the Atlantic .
“ I saw him on the Laurus nobilis his first day out , ” write Ted Perrin on Facebook . “ Flat composure no seas at all … … the next twenty-four hours or so after we had north eastward winds which are bad here . Guess he find out quickly that the North Atlantic is no joke . ”
[ BBC ]
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