Owners Next Project....

[FishyInverness]

http://www.ybw.com/news/sailing/536230/photos-82ft-yacht-catches-fire-in-caley-marina

So, who is going to start rattling the £5 tin for this one then?

 

[KenMcCulloch]

What a shame. Is anything known about the cause of the fire?

 

[FishyInverness]

I've not heard anything yet, going to take a wander up the road on Saturday and have a look and a blether with those at Caley i'm still friends with....it's been there years, since I worked at Caley, always thought it was a beautiful "different looking" yacht, being very slowly refitted - others have differing opinions, i've been told it was called the "Black Pig", not sure if that's it's given name, or a nickname, but I always liked it...

 

[ffiill]

Seem to have doubled up on thread-see mine on colvin pinky

 

[JumbleDuck]

Seem to have doubled up on thread-see mine on colvin pinky

Fishy got there first, by two hours.

Your thread says "destroyed" while the ybw report you refer to says "damaged". Have you heard something they haven't?

 

[Dave-Shafa]

"others have differing opinions, i've been told it was called the "Black Pig","

Saw it again about 4 weeks ago. Very odd looking and I doubt it would be finished this year.

 

[FishyInverness]

Fishy got there first, by two hours.

Your thread says "destroyed" while the ybw report you refer to says "damaged". Have you heard something they haven't?

But some nice useful history provided in your thread there ffiil...I hadn't known it was built in Aviemore and what it's accomplishments were, wow, even sadder

 

[ffiill]

I had my boat in the yard for several years circa 2000 so got to know the original owner of the black pig Thomas Colvin Pinky.
He built it in a field near Colyum Bridge in I believe the early 1990s without an engine.
A somewhat disastrous trip onto Loch Ness led to the addition of an engine.
The boat then spent its time between Africa and both south and north America earning a small living from coastal trading as well as trips up as I recall the Niger and Orinoco
The owner sold it and bought the old trawler that used to lie where Gaelforce is now alongside the fishing boat beaching tramway and winch.
Unfortunately bringing it into Muirtown basin attracted the wrath of British Waterways despite there being at that time the half dismantled ice breaker tug and a half built barge.
When the Black Pig first sold all that was needed was a revamp of the interior, a recon engine, and some rigging upgrades.
Unfortunately in my opinion people started messing with it and theaddition of a welded on steel deck house in my opinion completely spoiled its looks as envisaged by Colvin-see his book on steel boat building.

 

[ffiill]

I had my boat in the yard for several years circa 2000 so got to know the original owner of the black pig Thomas Colvin Pinky.
He built it in a field near Colyum Bridge in I believe the early 1990s without an engine.
A somewhat disastrous trip onto Loch Ness led to the addition of an engine.
The boat then spent its time between Africa and both south and north America earning a small living from coastal trading as well as trips up as I recall the Niger and Orinoco
The owner sold it and bought the old trawler that used to lie where Gaelforce is now alongside the fishing boat beaching tramway and winch.
Unfortunately bringing it into Muirtown basin attracted the wrath of British Waterways despite there being at that time the half dismantled ice breaker tug and a half built barge.
When the Black Pig first sold all that was needed was a revamp of the interior, a recon engine, and some rigging upgrades.
Unfortunately in my opinion people started messing with it and theaddition of a welded on steel deck house in my opinion completely spoiled its looks as envisaged by Colvin-see his book on steel boat building.

 

[ffiill]

I had my boat in the yard for several years circa 2000 so got to know the original owner of the black pig Thomas Colvin Pinky.
He built it in a field near Colyum Bridge in I believe the early 1990s without an engine.
A somewhat disastrous trip onto Loch Ness led to the addition of an engine.
The boat then spent its time between Africa and both south and north America earning a small living from coastal trading as well as trips up as I recall the Niger and Orinoco
The owner sold it and bought the old trawler that used to lie where Gaelforce is now alongside the fishing boat beaching tramway and winch.
Unfortunately bringing it into Muirtown basin attracted the wrath of British Waterways despite there being at that time the half dismantled ice breaker tug and a half built barge.
When the Black Pig first sold all that was needed was a revamp of the interior, a recon engine, and some rigging upgrades.
Unfortunately in my opinion people started messing with it and theaddition of a welded on steel deck house in my opinion completely spoiled its looks as envisaged by Colvin-see his book on steel boat building.[/QUOTE
AN UPDATE August 2016
Last week I was up at Inverness Recycling centre I saw the poor old Black Pig through the chain link fence by the scrap metal and rubble skip.
It was slowly disappearing under a mound of building rubble.
Very sad end!