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Post by phil70 on May 14, 2019 7:12:44 GMT
there is a joke thread....... sigh..... Hard work sorting out, there are so many to choose from. Phil
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Post by bargemast on May 15, 2019 18:13:01 GMT
It must be even more beautiful seen from the cockpit of your glider Nick, with only the noise of the wind to disturb (or not) the perfect silence.
People make lots of videos with the help of their drones, but that's not the same sensation as seeing it all directly through your own eyes.
Too bad there weren't many boats at a distance from where we could see what they were.
There's one boat cruising on the Caledonian Canal that I've always loved since I first knew about it's existance the Puffer VIC 32.
Peter.
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Post by JohnV on May 16, 2019 20:44:11 GMT
There's one boat cruising on the Caledonian Canal that I've always loved since I first knew about it's existance the Puffer VIC 32. Peter. Nick Walker got that for it's scrap value (somewhere about £1,000) but by heck he took a real gamble and put an incredible amount of work into it. It was derilict for so long at Whitby that it had ended up being an unofficial rubbish dump. Fantastic story and one that helped inspire me.
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Post by naughtyfox on May 17, 2019 7:22:28 GMT
I wonder if there are boats surviving that were built by my great-great-grandfather John Alexander Millar.... I provided Richard Wemyss with a couple of photos of JAM... "We were delighted to welcome back Richard Wemyss as speaker to the 16th January club meeting. Richard had previously told us of his work with food banks, but this time spoke about John Alexander Millar, a boat builder in times past. This proved to be a fascinating illustrated talk about an important, but little known local boat builder of the 19th century. John Millar died in 1903 at 60 years of age – yet in that lifetime managed to create a number of yards building boats of up to 50 foot in length. Astonishingly he also seems to have survived two or possibly three instances of bankruptcy. The boatbuilding story started in 1867 when he took up a tiny piece of land in East Cellardyke and he seems to have been an innovative builder. By 1868 he had built a first fully decked boat – a major change from the open boats common to the area. By 1874 his first carvel built craft was launched – considered to be safer than the usual clinker construction. By June 1876 he launched a 45-foot boat ‘Island of May’ – yet in august of that year was declared bankrupt. But one year later he surfaced again; this time in West Anstruther in a larger yard. An impressive photograph showed the Cellardyke fleet of 165 fishing boats in harbour, of which 63 were by John Millar and 6 of carvel build. Disaster struck when huge storms destroyed his yard and steam-powered workshop, with bankruptcy once again. It seems that by 1899 he had paid off his debts and moved to Arbroath, where the ‘Ina Cook’, KY133, his biggest boat was launched. Yet by 1902 his yard was up for sale and his work came to an end. Altogether an astonishing story of another enterprising spirit of the Victorian era – a man whose business, at its prime, was producing ten craft a year – a boat every five weeks, with a workforce of just three men and a boy!" www.spanglefish.com/rotaryclubofanstruther/news.asp?intent=viewstory&newsid=86780
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Post by naughtyfox on May 17, 2019 7:36:30 GMT
en-gb.facebook.com/pg/eastneukboatbuilders/posts/ Intresting photo from Levenmouth's page of Largo Harbour. KY 4 was the Ocean Bride or Pride built by John A Millar, for the Gilles Brothers of Largo in Sept 1882, 52 feet long.. There was a KY 400 Lily built by James Miller's in Anstruther in 1902 for Andrew Watson, of Fowler Street Cellardyke, but she was a 69 ft fifie and this vessel looks smaller.. The Ina Cook KY 133 was built for Andrew Henderson of Cellardyke, By John A Millar. Millar was highly respected and had operated in Cellardyke, East of the harbour, before moving to the Esplanade in Anstruther. He went bankrupt there and worked as a draftsman for William Jarvis before his final attempt at setting up business in Arbroath, where he only seems to have built this vessel and the Prestige for Adam Reid of Cellardyke in 1900/1901 the yard was sold and Miller died about a year later The tin shed and chimney can be seen sitting on the esplanade, thought to belong to John Millar.. he built 35 - 52 feet fifies here
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Post by bargemast on May 18, 2019 7:09:51 GMT
There's one boat cruising on the Caledonian Canal that I've always loved since I first knew about it's existance the Puffer VIC 32. Peter. Nick Walker got that for it's scrap value (somewhere about £1,000) but by heck he took a real gamble and put an incredible amount of work into it. It was derilict for so long at Whitby that it had ended up being an unofficial rubbish dump. Fantastic story and one that helped inspire me.
Same with me John, I've always admired their perseverance with that enormous job of getting everything working again, and even make it into the successful business it has become. I still have the little additional magazine (somewhere) that came with "the Telegraph" in 1975, which was laying on the table of the waiting room at my ex-wife's lawyer, and that ended up under my jumper (by accident ), and that was in the end the only thing I had out off my divorce, partly my own fault as I told them that I didn't want to hang around for futur visits there, and because of that signed empty papers, that worked out to have been a very expensive mistake. If I do remember this right they had the boat dirt cheap at it's auction for £1500, which even at the time wasn't much. I've known lots of people that bought boats dirt cheap that were in the need of lots of work, but only few of them managed to finish these jobs, most were sold off during the rebuilding process to other "dreamers". Peter.
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Post by JohnV on May 18, 2019 7:31:18 GMT
Nick Walker got that for it's scrap value (somewhere about £1,000) but by heck he took a real gamble and put an incredible amount of work into it. It was derilict for so long at Whitby that it had ended up being an unofficial rubbish dump. Fantastic story and one that helped inspire me.
I've known lots of people that bought boats dirt cheap that were in the need of lots of work, but only few of them managed to finish these jobs, most were sold off during the rebuilding process to other "dreamers". Peter. Yeah .... I've seen that more than a few times .... also seen a lot just fit for the scrapman afterwards because of the poor quality of work or changes which have destroyed the character and sometimes the integrity of the hull
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