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Oban harbour
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the LAPWING,,,AVAIL,,,NEW ERA.
Must be going back to the very late 60s with that one when wee Tam fae Arbroath had the Avail,big Joe Milne had the New Era.Macbrayne's Columba lying at the North pier,and it looks like the wee motor boat from the Auld Reekie with Jerry in command.The two lads who were crew on the Auld Reekie were called Tom and Jerry!...The skipper Tommy Dinwiddie was from Granton,ex steam trawler engineer,and Jerry his number one man,cannae mind his second name was from South Queensferry..two great guys,never saw us stuck for a bag of coal out their bunkers as long as we kept them going in fish.
if you took the power blocks,net drums,shelterdecks,radar,sat dishes,mobi,s,and thats not counting the plotters etc. nav equipment.away 90% o, the fleet wid be tied up the morn.
theyve took away some philo,s already and those boats are gone........
the govt havn,t latched on yet switch off sat nav. etc. sssshhhh dinny tell them..
theyve took away some philo,s already and those boats are gone........
the govt havn,t latched on yet switch off sat nav. etc. sssshhhh dinny tell them..
There is no a lot of Joe Milnes and wee Tams left at the job their glass was all ways half full ,life was just a laugh with them.every harbour had a Joe and Tam now the way the fishing has gone there would be no room for their way of thinking.there no much to laugh about we fuel near 70p and a twenty year old price list.
Aye Bryan,they were certainly happy go lucky characters yon two.I can still see wee Tam steaming away fae the Railway pier one Summer afternoon,pier crowded wi' visitors,fu tae the hatches(him,no the boat!)standing in the wheelhoose and pishing oot the door! The "tut tuts" and the comments o' the folk standing on the pier were worth hearing.He didnae manage tae get oot the bay,ran her ashore at the "barber's pole",but he got off the next tide...oh happy days indeed 
Nowadays the MCA would have him up in front of the beak in the flash of an eyelid Ronnie!
Back then naebody bothered too much with the wee boats John,although Billy Taylor fell foul of the local plod here with the New Seafarer a good few years back after a WAFI complained about him at the South pier...justified I have to admit mind you
othe wafi's complained abput me last year or year afore ronnie we were going out late evening and they were sitting on the aft deck enjoying there vino seems the wash of us spilled there glasses, more like they had one too many glasses but still came in to land few days later and the harbour master gave us a warning
jj not dodi
jj not dodi
Big power,high speed,loadsa wash...among yottie folk??...tut tut and thrice tut James,ye're a terrible man
lapwing sold to broch renamed concordia,owned by sucie and p.j.j sold down south somewhere to be converted into sailing ship,38yrs ago
