People from around the world are supporting a crowdfunding campaign to help get Maid of the Loch, the UK's last built paddle steamship, sailing on Loch Lomond again. The campaign was launched on 27 October 2017 to raise £125,000 in six weeks in order to buy a new boiler (£90,000) and pay for its installation (£35,000). The campaign also included an amnesty appeal to find parts from the paddler that went missing when she was left in 1981. The largest donation was a gift worth £25,000 from Graeme Varley in Manchester. He was born in Greenock and spent his early childhood there. As a teenager in the early 1960s, he used to sail on the Maid, as well as other Clyde steamers, and was inspired by his happy memories.
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