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fertile pd


fertile pd


    Looks like a hand coloured postcard, my aul fella had hundreds of them but they got cleaned out when he passed on, as I was in Australia. Bloody Do-Gooders. ;)
    In those day's there were that many drifter's in port at the weekend that you could walk from one quay to another just by walking over the boat's.The good old day's of Peterhead when every one was happy with a few pennie's.

    bryan DE127
    Jan 23 2011 01:17 AM
    A well fished drifter when she was sold to the broch the start of the Taits was the bum boat when the taits built there first purser Conquest FR1.
    SHE SURE STARTED OFF A DYNASTY

    driftfisher
    Mar 24 2011 05:40 PM
    While it may be true that the Tait's dynasty, or empire as GeeBee has it on another photo of the Fertile, came from this drifter, it must not be forgotten that the man who built the Fertile in the first place, John Jackson Buchan, "Johnnie Jackson", fished her very successfully until she was sold, because of the "Close Meetin'" Troubles, to the Taits in the early 1960's.  I was talking recently with a man who was a very successful skipper in those days; he told me that "Johnnie Jackson" as a "fisherman" (ie "fisherman" in the sense of being a successful skipper) was one of the best in Peterhead. After selling the boat, "Johnnie Jackson" went into netmaking  and "Jackson Trawls is the family business today.
    The Fertile was a good example of the later development of the "Dualpurpose" model, first thought up in the early 1930s as a replacement for the steam drifter. Designed primarily for drifting for herring and seining for whitefish and ease of change between the two methods, not a few went greatlining, as an alternative to the seine net. J&G Forbes' boats, like the Fertile, had lovely lines; to my mind perfectly set off when the Mizzen was set.