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Janet BA10


Janet BA10

Vessel Name Janet
Port Registry Ballantrae
Gear Worked Seine net
Where Photo Taken Cairnryan
Date Photographed 1967



    nice old photo gordon. O0 ;)
    Thanks Stevie...waiting on high tide....not much room in the wheel house for fancy plotters just room for the skipper  O0 ;)

    young ronnie
    Sep 01 2009 12:35 PM
    She got the whole roof of the wheelhouse sliced clean off by the Niels Risager's bow rope in a gale of Westerly wind at the South Pier in Oban.I can still picture George Strachan that had her then,taking her away from the pier standing in the remains of the wheelhouse..nae roof,windows falling out,uprights crumbling..it was like something out a comedy film!That must have been around 1975 or 76 sometime.A bonny wee skiff she was too.

    biggles1red
    Nov 14 2009 11:45 PM
    does any one have a pic of "the janet" fished by bill thomson and his son of stranraer,she used to be moored at the cairn pier and was wrecked of ayr (i think)

    Jay Cresswell
    May 20 2012 11:03 AM
    Ronnie
    she was green with brown rails then, was she not?
    was used for pranw creeling at the time  
    a bonny wee skiff
    what was Janet's fate?

    young ronnie
    May 20 2012 01:49 PM
    Yes that's correct Jay,she looked bonny in the two colours(as does the Christina,it suits these wee skiffs).She was lost at the South West end of Loch Linnhe on the North West shore at the back end of 1977.Got tail tied at the prawn creels in a South East breeze close in and went ashore,total loss.If memory serves,George was ashore that day and one of the crew had her out.No a very nice job having to go up to the owner's house at night and say "remember that boat ye used to have" lol

    Jay Cresswell
    May 20 2012 02:13 PM
    grief, that's a casualty that passed me by
    wondering how I missed it as was in TT
    George had reddish hair and a beard, did he not?
    as for boat, I think she still had a K series Kelvin in her

    herringringerman
    Aug 22 2013 12:59 PM
    remember this one very well when i was seinenetting in the clyde in the  start sixties.