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My old mate Bernard Price on stern end steaming warps




    baggywrinkle
    Nov 07 2011 07:21 PM
    Asuming he,s at the lines, there,s fish on the deck, but I dinna see nae lines. He must be towing a drouge (sea anchor) wi that heavy ropes.. Im sure that boat came to the Broch in the mid 19 60s ..:-

    bryan DE127
    Nov 07 2011 07:59 PM
    Your right shes towing a drouge ,going in to Whitby in a northely gale.
    He's drogueing her in Norman, and he was working pots and lines at this time,so it's likely around the end of the year as we all used to start with the lines about the second week of November and work the two jobs together till the water got too cold, then we brought the pots ashore and doubled up on the lines til Easter.
    Quite often the lines would be put below or stowed in the crib, just fore side of the pot hauler when making WY in strong up winds , this was to stop em maybe getting washed over the side if she took one over her stern.
    She did finish up north of the border and now she's laid falling to pieces in a Loch somewhere.
    Tal Bennison was with Matt for a long time.
    This picture was early in her life cos she still has her original Walter Reekie stem in her.
    She had two new stems and a new stern fitted at different times in her life due to an argument with the flatiron Fulham X in the Humber, and the west bullnose at WY, and a new stern when she stuck in stern gear in Shields.
    Put some wild old days in when Matt Storr had her.
    Thanks for info Bob my old mate from Whitby Bernard Price is the lad nearest the stern
    I know some of the old ringers used to use fenders or old tyres in a breeze or gale of wind to slow and steady them, what did these boats use as a drouge.
    We all carried custom built drogues Sylvestor, the were heavy canvas with a heavy steel ring, one at the towing end and one at the trip end and bound with heavy galvanised wire with big thimbles at each end, the same pattern as the lifeboats carried.
    I remember the Lead Us 2 (A.291) Raymond Storr, coming in one time and he blew the canvas completely out.
    great photo and lovely details