The Amo Barge

Amo Barge

The Amo Barge Renovation blog will detail the interior re-fit and re-painting of this wonderful canal cruising barge over the coming weeks.

Work commenced in February and is been documented as the project progresses. 

The Amo will join its sister barge, An Spideog, as the second vessel in the www.bargetrip.ie fleet which will operate out of Sallins, Co. Kildare on The Grand Canal from April 2014.

The Amo was built by Dartline Boat Builders in the UK in 1991 and was brought into Ireland as part of the Celtic Canal hire fleet. 
After a decade of service as a hire barge it went the way of many a hire boat in Ireland and was sold on as a live-aboard barge. 

This well built vessel served as a home for another 7 years before we bought it in 2008. We were live-aboards on the Roisin Dubh Barge in Sallins with 2 children and we needed the extra space! 

Amo Barge interior 2011

The pic to the left shows her in her pre-renovation condition. It was given a minor revamp in 2011, and has been a comfortable live-aboard space since then. 

The new spec requires a complete gut out of the interior, and with the assistance of master carpenter and former Amo resident Vinny Gale, the boat will be transformed over the coming weeks. 

Progress will be posted regularly so sign up to the blog and watch as she it transformed!