365/194 Motorised

.. well I have had a few offers today, items from the workshop or maybe the guys' cars in the yard (specifically Simon's TVR which should impress they tell me...) and also ideas of units we have built.

Later this evening I decided I would leave this til tomorrow so I could include some of Jordan's pictures of Farnborough airshow, but I found this picture and thought I'd include it as it is a nice memory and bloggable item...
... this is a (pastel I think) of my step-fathers boat which he owned with his brother Frank. They were kind of last generation fishermen from Mousehole, they used to have a shark fishing licence for the summer and then went mackereling in the winter, sometimes even from Falmouth if the fish were over that way.

When Mum & Phil were 'courting' it was summer, 1973, David Bowie was singing about Life on Mars and Alice Cooper was shouting that 'School's Out'..

Every day in summer the boat seemed to be landing up to 45 sharks, small ones mainly but some big Porbeagles, the Seafarer's restaurant in Penzance even used to buy them and sell shark steaks!

Holiday makers would book a day's shark fishing and Phil & Frank were an entertainment in themselves. There are so many stories that Phil told me... about the man with a false leg which fell off as he walked up the steps as he was leaving the boat... Phil just picked it up, handed it to him and said.. 'that was some shark bite'.. or the times when wives went to have a day at sea but seemed to look seasick once they drifted a couple of miles out waiting for sharks to respnd to the drums of rubby-dubby they tipped over the side to entice them..Phil and Frank could work out the balance of who looked sick and often came in early when they timed the 'vote to go back to harbour' just to conicide with the maximum number of sick on board!


The Talisman used to be harboured in Mousehole during the summer whilst the baulks (wooden sleepers placed in the mouth of the harbour to stop the sand being leached out in bad wether) were up..PZ 280, it was the same as our phone number, things used to be that easy to remember...xx