<P> In 2005 the comedians Griff Rhys Jones, Dara Ó Briain, and Rory McGrath embarked on a recreation of the novel for what was to become a regular yearly BBC TV series, Three Men in a Boat . Their first expedition was along the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, recreating the original novel . After this, the trio embarked on a trip from London to the Isle of Wight in Jones's yacht where they would race her against her sister yacht . The following year, Three Men in More Than One Boat saw the three borrowing, stealing, and hitchhiking on numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly . For their 2009 adventure, the trio take to the waterways of Ireland, making their way from Dublin to Limerick with Dara's greyhound Snip Nua, and the first episode of Three Men Go to Scotland was broadcast at the end of 2010 . </P> <P> A stage adaptation earned Jeremy Nicholas a Best Newcomer in a Play nomination at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards . The book was adapted by Clive Francis for a 2006 production that toured the UK . </P> <P> A sculpture of a stylised boat was created in 1999 to commemorate Three Men in a Boat on the Millennium Green in New Southgate, London, where the author lived as a child . In 2012 a mosaic of a dog's head was put onto the same Green to commemorate Montmorency . </P> <P> In 1891, Three Women in One Boat - A River Sketch by Constance MacEwen was published . This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in Three Men in a Boat in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university . To take the place of Montmorency, they bring a cat called Tintoretto . </P>

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