Fancy an ex fishing boat?

jimmcgee said:
so no one noticed the fish inside the monkfish !!
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It's the only way to catch a monk on a longline, they don't go for bait........unless anyone knows better. Once the dogfish, for such it is, was in its throat it couldn't let it go.

I asked one of 'basket case' Setherington's crew about the piano: "Oh lord, 1960 something, we were dodging in a full gale, we were huddled down below expecting every moment would be our next, he was down the forepeak on the Broadwood upright banging out 'Nearer My God to Thee' in ragtime".

Bit of a character.
 
OK we may scoff, but worth remembering this boat was fishing until recently, and subject to regular DTI structural, safety and stability tests. She should have plenty of safety equipment in the way of pumping and firefighting systems, if not removed. She had several rebuilds and engines, and Stevenson's shipwrights and engineers are on hand to tell exactly what's been done. Bit different from a longtime ex-fishing boat.
 
fisherman said:
OK we may scoff, but worth remembering this boat was fishing until recently, and subject to regular DTI structural, safety and stability tests. She should have plenty of safety equipment in the way of pumping and firefighting systems, if not removed. She had several rebuilds and engines, and Stevenson's shipwrights and engineers are on hand to tell exactly what's been done. Bit different from a longtime ex-fishing boat.
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Well I was going to ask about condition, so thanks.

Do Stevenson's have their own slip and yard? Are any other wooden boats still in the fleet?

No reason, just interested. Certainly not in the market..
 
doug748 said:
Well I was going to ask about condition, so thanks.

Do Stevenson's have their own slip and yard? Are any other wooden boats still in the fleet?

No reason, just interested. Certainly not in the market..
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The last wooden one sank on her way to scrap.https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpmarks/5202549710/

They use the harbour slip in Newlyn, and have their own engineers, but not as many as when they were running 23 beamers. I once asked Billy Stevenson if he ever had them all running with no problems. He said "Once, for two hours and twenty minutes, in 1993.
 
fisherman said:
It's the only way to catch a monk on a longline, they don't go for bait........unless anyone knows better. Once the dogfish, for such it is, was in its throat it couldn't let it go.

I asked one of 'basket case' Setherington's crew about the piano: "Oh lord, 1960 something, we were dodging in a full gale, we were huddled down below expecting every moment would be our next, he was down the forepeak on the Broadwood upright banging out 'Nearer My God to Thee' in ragtime".

Bit of a character.
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Brilliant! :D
 
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