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Irma CN 45

Uploaded by Dunard , Dec 30 2009 02:32 PM

Irma CN 45

Jamie Campbell of Waterfoot, Carradale's  Irma CN 45 lying in Campbeltown. The wheelhouse door is open, so he must have been aboard.

He apparently used to say 'The Toonies would steal the eyes oot yer heid and come back for your blinkers, they're naw like that in Tarbert!'

........ When the blood was strong....




    george-mc
    Dec 30 2009 02:43 PM
    Nice old photo is that the Alban alongside the Irma & the Harvest Queen outside

    Dunard
    Dec 30 2009 02:53 PM
    I think so George. The Harvest Queen looks quite a size beside the older boats.

    BowTow
    Dec 30 2009 07:52 PM
    Dunard Managed to find Waterfoot on Google!
    Any story to the Cross made with bushes just of the beach?
    Davy

    Dunard
    Dec 30 2009 08:45 PM
    The line of bushes going North to South would have originally extended all the way up to the big house. It was previously owned by Lady Niaomi Mithchison and before that, a family called MacKenzie.

    Gary Sutherland
    Dec 31 2009 01:15 AM
    Nice shot of the Irma.

    The cross is presumably just part of the former ornamental gardens. I think I've got an old photo showing it from the air.

    BowTow
    Dec 31 2009 12:03 PM
    Thanks boys, never noticed the big house up in the trees.

    quiet waters
    Jan 24 2011 11:11 PM
    that'll be why a toonie like me stole the number about thirty or more years after this pic was taken, the irma being one of three boats to have used the CN45 number, no idea why my father chose it for the albion in 1967 but i chose it because i'd yet to decide on a number when my father died two months after we got the boat so i chose quiet waters as the name from his first boat and CN45 from the albion. think being half carradale i could get away with it.

    Dunard
    Jan 25 2011 12:10 AM
    Easily. A good New Year to you Morris!