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Seahouses harbour
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, Jan 27 2010 11:27 AM
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Old postcard of Seahouses.
favourite BK11 on outside with mid position wheelhouse, fortune on inside these boats spent many years together in st abbs
Boat astern of them looks like the Guide Me that two Orkney lads,Tam Fotheringham and Colin Stevenson had.Worked the creels for a wee while out of Oban in the early 70s.Very nice guys they were too.
Lovely...another good un of the old boats Ally 
Debra
Debra
little would the photographer know, in later years the inside boat FORTUNE, and the outside boat FAVOURITE, would be owned by a father and son team from the shore....(st. abbs)..
these two fine boats were a fixture at St Abbs for many years owned by peter Nisbet they were the last two prawn trawlers from the village , i was lucky enough to go out on favourite one night shortly before the boats were sold as a non fisherman it was an amazing and unforgetable expeirence peters son Gordon skippered Favourite and Peter skippered Fortune , favourite is preseved on the tyne and fortune was sold to a fisherman in blyth i think and last year was still working
3 bonny boats in a row, products of the Miller, Noble FR, and Reekie yards, I think. The Guide Me astern was built at Seahouses.
we always thought Favourite was a Walter Reekie boat but never sure of its exact date , a relative of its original isle of man owners thought it was a miller boat i know that Reekies more or less stopped after the death of Walter Reekie falling from Pride of the Clyde . Was the reekie yard possibly taken over by Miller about 1950 and was the name kept for a while ?
Chris, Margaret Anna/ Favourite was built 1947, i beleive. Walter didnt die until 27th Oct 1949. The firm was kept running by his family with long term foreman, Joe Butters in charge. Reekies Anster yard was sold in 1950 but the St Monans yard went on to build Amity BA94, Resolution INS279 and lily Oak BCK82 in 1950, Dewy Rose AH117 in 52 and Ability KY53 in 1954. i beleive that the part-completed F.S. Colling SH15 was still on the stocks when the yard was taken over by Millers around 1955, but have not been able to confirm this. Hows things coming on with Shemaron? Will get across sometime for a look!
thanks for the info, Shemaron should be back in tarbert by early march if not before
Cheers, Chris, hows things progressin wi Sovereign?
