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Golden View
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Brian Ward TT24
, Feb 15 2009 12:21 PM
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Golden View PD184 built Richard Irvin Peterhead 1956 For Robert Reid. Later Catriona TT24, then Harmony TT24. Now still in Tarbert after40 years. Wooden wheelhouse replaced in 1980.
nice boat, almost as nice as the boat currently tied up opposite in Tarbert harbour
What boat would that be Chris? Seriously, all the very best with your Shemaron CN244 project, we old boat people need to help each other and I know local expertise and advice is always on hand. Dookers like their old boats and appreciate efforts to maintain them...there's not many left. I often wonder if their builders expected them to still be here 50/60 years later! A well known TT fisherman told me that my boat will see me out!
why is the mast infrint on wheelhoose
All wooden masts then. Had to be stayed. So the quarter is kept clear for shooting seine net. Also, the hatch to the engine room is behind w/house. Foredeck needed to store seine net ropes. After mast is used as derrick to take bag aboard. Not a lot of room....as an aul' Gaimrick once told me.." There's nae enough room to turn a "chaw" o' tobacco in yer mou'!!! Some 40 footers had only 1 mast sited foreside of w/house, with the landing derrick leading forrit to a "crutch" app. 6ft above foredeck.
I'd say more space was wasted on the 70-80 footers. Every inch is precious on a small boat.
I'd say more space was wasted on the 70-80 footers. Every inch is precious on a small boat.
Thanks for that Gee Bee. I wondered that myself, but the TT seine net boats had the mizzen beind the wheelhouse in a tabernacle. In fact the Our Lassie TT8 came to Tarbert set up in the exact way you describe. She was then changed to have a main mast, landing derrick horizontal to wheelhouse roof and a mizzen aft the wheelhouse.
