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Fairweather


Fairweather

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




    baggywrinkle
    Feb 09 2011 01:40 AM
    I promise ill shut up after this..but I was on a big purser one time(shall be nameless(and while we were landing big catch in Norway....when I came off my shift on deck ..The skipper ..who was a nice man.....showed me the plans for his new boat which was building in Spain.....I took a glance at the plans and simply quoted Peter Buchan In his poem ......SILLER  where he says.....and I quote....O  Sillers like the sauty sea far men and boats are lost.....fin aye the deeper dips the speen....The steeper grows the cost....needless to say ..I dinna think that was the responce he antisipated........ ;D
    So you're one o' "Jet Set" o' sledgin' or "hushlin", as it's known in Gamrie. Now that's the place for sledgin' Crovie or Gamrie Brae 1 mile plus either one. Lang haul back up, like borin' the tide!!
    So that's what the fishin's like now, is it? Lyin' in luxury in your ain cabin, wi' aa yer gadgets!!! I used to lie and nearly choke when Jock Hall lit his pipe in the bunk abeen me!! Nite, nite, I'm awa to turn in. I never had a "caff" bed, but I'm sure yer father had one. You pampered deckies!!!

    young ronnie
    Feb 09 2011 02:06 AM
    Aye Baggywrinkle,Peter Buchan hit the nail on the heid with the last verse of "not to the swift"...if there had been a lot mair "Jocks" and less "Daavits" at the fishing maybe,just maybe it wid be in a better state than it is noo ;D
    Gentlemen,poster's of good photo's as well as all the poet's,well done.This post showed a picture of what was once a fishing boat from Peterhead that had died a sudden death,but from the reply's to the post it goes to show that we are all but human's with kind heart's and a good memory of the Buchan tongue.The only thing is,does Lems' ever do ony work onboard.A'he seem's tae dae is tak picter's and video's and sit's back in his posh 'cabin' and play wi his IPAD and computer.Fit div ye hae tae dae tae get a berth like at' ? answer's in poet talk only.......................