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Lochranza
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, Nov 23 2011 09:48 AM
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the ranger tt73 belonged to douglas mcneil tarbert seine netter 44kelvin .
Swivel, Served my time with Douglas Snr when he was aboard with my old fella, taught me how to cook, splice and mend. Canny man, showed the old boy some good wee shots 5/6 coil at seine net for flukes and lemons. His fingers were mangled from working at the Kelvins, the wee shake did'nt help, half a mug of tea was order of the day, asked him once if he took a dram, said he spilled most of it if wisnae in big glass.
first man out of our harbour john at prawns up at furnace wee net port seton boards .deadly at the lines for the hake first shot from north o harbour there was that many hake it floated the lines .good at hook mackrel they just drapped of the hook wi shaky hand everybody worked 12 hook darrow douglas had 15 he was hardie.
Yacht lying astern looks like the Pandora.
i was thinking it was marquis o butes yacht dan the king duck and the man in middle a young jock mcarthur.
is this no the boat that had the contract to supply holly for the big stores in glasgow
Aye,Auld Jock could sure could tell some baurs about his time aboard the King Duck.When the old man was staying in Rothesay,we went up to the fishing show in Glasgow with Jock and Ian and he never stopped yarning fae the time we got in the car tae the time we got oot again lol I could have sat for hours listening to him,had us in stitches at times wi' some o' the ploys they got up tae.He was a great raconteur and a very enjoyable journey it was! Funny enough,I'm the only one left oot o' that carload(but I was young at the time!!) 
Dont think the King Duck had a tumble-home stern one I remember had a curved transom.
We very near run the wee mannie wi' the red flag doon a coupla times on the wey there that day GW,he wasnae walking fast enough
Zoom in for great detail of a really attractive Weatherhead boat
