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Fairweather


Fairweather

Rusting wreck of the Peterhead vessel Fairweather, on the shore at Holmar , South Uist.



    Anybody got any info on this vessel, been told that she was on her 1st trip when she ran aground on the Flagro's in fog ;D then towed and left to rot on the shore. Dont know what date she was lost on or if she was from peterhead but she has 'peterhead' on the stern. ;D
    Yes,I think she was from Peterhead,sadly I think there was another boat of the same name that also went down over in the West Coast.Also Iam quite sure that the Atlantic Challenge also of Peterhead is something to do with the Fairweather name,she too nearly got smashed up on the beach at Troon not long after being built.I cannot give you much more info,but if you Google Fairweather you will see quite a history.
    ;D Gde, doesn't sound like a very lucky name for a boat by the sounds of things  ;D ! i'll away and google it !
    Googled and found some details of the vessel and a picture of her on her trials. http://www.berwicksh...%20Vessels.html ;D
    She was owned/skippered by John Alex (Buck) Buchan of Peterhead. Very successful pair trawler, part of what became known as the Big Five. The team operated in such a way at the herring, that they had always some boats on the grounds while others were discharging their catch. She was under a relief skipper when she struck the Flagros and sank. Was refloated and towed up to where she is now. I was on holiday some years ago, and went right down to see her. The port side is fine, but the starboard side is opened like a kipper. The forefoot of the boat is in a bad way, too. She was a beautiful boat from Fairmile, Berwick, very similar to the first Favonius. No, she wasn't on her 1st trip .. built '69, and sank in Loch Carnan in the winter of '73.
    gee bee u r a hive o information.....i can just hear da fan i wiz reading at anoo,great stuff
    I knew Gee Bee would not let us down,he is a walking wikipedia,no one know's more about the North East fishing fleet of yesterday and today than the man himself..
    Mr Lemon, it was your da that had me trailin' roon' hairbours, and climmin' aboord boats afore I could walk richt!!! Great childhood, best o' pals, laugh-a-minute  .. and hardly a broon maik among the lot o's. Happy days.
    Hey, Gavin, I was aye a bit jealous o' you. Your father ran the cinema (or picterhoose, as we knew it). The Alamo came out in 1960 .. I only saw it for the first time last November!!
    George,The Alamo was one of the better one's.Looking back,I now know why I had so many freen's,it wisna the siller,we had non,it was Dad's free pass tae the picter's,the good old day's..My father also looked after the North Star at Lerwick,the one in Stornaway as well as Banff and Macduff and the Regal and Playhouse in Peterhead.So strange that my father made friend's with many fishermen and we always had some fine fish for tea..That was the reason we never returned home to Dundee,my mother never foregave my father as she loved her home town.The rest is history...by the way George was John Alec not a relation to the late Phillip and Joe Buck ?On a final note (have wanted to say this for a long time) as John Wayne would say 'get on yer horse and sup yer milk' he alway's said that to the young cow-hand's.On a final last note,div ye mind when we went sledging doon Love Lane brae,across the main road and smashin into Crossies side entrance ?
    Gavin, that's taking me back. Of course I do. We all had home-made sledges, except Roberta Buchan (runs, or ran a ladies' high class, fancy clothes shop in Glasgow). Her father was Norwegian, so we were all green with envy, of her sit- on the seat / varnished / steering wheel / brake / deluxe model sledge from Scandinavia!!!. Her mother Veda, who ran the pram shop in the Broadgate, would stand at the foot of the brae with a torch. She'd flash the light if no cars were coming (hardly any cars then) and a steady beam if one was coming. First traffic lights in the Blootoon!!!
    We also played "Kick the Tinnie", beltin' the tin doon the brae, then runnin' to hide in the Love Lane close. Bloomfield's Yard was a favourite place, makin' campies with the fishboxes. Old Johnny Noble was in charge. Got some great chasies from him!!! He was a nice man, but just scared us off. He knew my folks, so he aye shouted efter me " I ken yer Granny, Boothie". I was terrified.    
    The time of our lives!       WHO NEEDED WIFI, LAPTOPS, IPODS, MOBILE PHONES ETC. ETC.  ;D;D
    PS John Alex was cousin of Joe and Philip. Their fathers Wullie, and Joe Buck were brothers.

    Douglas Paterson
    Feb 08 2011 10:22 PM
    Aye Gee Bee fit aboot Roberta Buchans shop in Morningside (Edinburgh)?