Margaret Rose CN 115

Do not know if this is correct name, got it from Lord Freddie of Gigha's excellent book "Goodbye to Boots and Oilskins".

i've a copy of the little engine that could, its just about as factual as the book you refer to only better written, the name will be right enough, i was i school with a girl named after the boat. mind you if the author told me i had ten toes i'd count them to make sure!!! we finally made it into one of his books, only took four or five books about campbeltown and carradale fishing to get a mention, theres even a pic at the back of the book of the author's father i think sitting on a boat with my wife's grandfather jamie mckinven. you'll need t find an older heid in tarbert that might remember him tho, he owned the quiet waters CN 93 with cecil finn. sold it to my father in 1963, spent his working life at the fishing having spent four years in hospital during the war with a broken back, lived to be 93.

Just put that wee comment in to see if you would rise to it QW, any book I have read of said author has left me mildly depressed but good for the odd giggle.

never been one to disappoint if it can be helped, he has a better memory than me tho very selective, i'll give him that, i couldn't write one book about the local history of the fleets, well i could but it would be full of so and so had a boat called thingemy, CN something or other, built at some yard somewhere? even knoxy puts me to shame, thats why i'm more interested in the banter than the boats, i can never remember anything, pointless asking me anything about boats or engines or anything, i'm clueless, don't tell anybody i like to give the impression i know everything about everything, thats why i make a joke about most things, hides my lack of knowledge, but then they didn't call him sir fred for nothing!!!!

This one  had to go back to Millars, I don't know where but she needed seeing to soft wood, the last time I saw this boat north as the Margret Rose she was neebouring the Boy Danny 1956/57. Sold to Portavogie May McMASTER, sold from P/AVOGIE to Avoch IntegrityR. ended up about KYLESKU.

thats st monans in the picture maybe wrong looks like it