‘Mystery solved’: owner of boat washed up in Ireland found in Canada

Environmentalist Rick Small says he imparted away boat now on display in community garden in Ireland

The wooden houseboat cleaned ashore on Ireland’s Atlantic seashore three years ago, stimulating two questions: how did it get there? And where was Rick Small?

The 20 ft( 6-metre) spacecraft, made with driftwood and polystyrene and fitted with solar panels, had no one at the helm when it turned up at Drum beach, near Belmullet in County Mayo, in November 2016.

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