Boater overwhelmed by help

IT WAS a dramatic telephone call that alerted Genevieve Dunne that her narrowboat—her home for two years—had sunk.

It was in July, whilst she was away from her boat leaving it moored at Hackney Wick, that she was called by a friend telling her that her boat had sunk, it being discovered that a sudden rise in the water level had taken the boat on to a protruding lip, and when the water subsided, the boat was caught and tipped over with the water rushing in and it sinking, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Great deal of damage

The boat was eventually refloated and dried-out, but the sinking caused a great deal of damage, with the doors and windows ripped out where the emergency services had attempted to discover if anyone was trapped inside.

The cost of repairs and refurbishment will by astronomic to the young student, but she has been overwhelmed that a website has been created with many sympathetic people having donated towards her aid, with £5,500 being donated in just two weeks.

The fundraising page.