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can anyone remember this boat i believe i may be wrong first boat to do wrecking out of hartlepool, trev newton skippered the boat first went out wth him in the mid seventies he certainly new his stuff.
 
If I remember correctly, the Grey brothers had the "Tynewinder". Anyone remember Micky Devlin, he had an old trawler he used for charters. Bit of a bugger was Mickey but a great guy with it. He used to pick up punters at various points along the river, and when he got to North Shields fish quay he used to tell everyone to get below. The reason for this was so that he could take on the last dozen anglers waiting to board, because Mickey knew that the "man from the ministry" would be counting them on. By the time they got out the piers she looked like a Vietnamese refugee boat, with bodies coming out from all over her.
"Hairy", but fun with it, we didn't think of life jackets and things like that when we were young and daft, oh! happy days.
The first boat to actually start taking charter parties wrecking out of the Tyne was the "Briar" skippers name was John, he lived at Stanley. In those days we didn't have Sat Nav's it was the old Decca Navigator. Many times we would set out for a wreck maybe twenty miles or so off and I can't remember how many times we would be just a couple of hundred yards from the mark and the Decca would go on the blink, as I said happy days.
Tight Lines.
 
If I remember correctly, the Grey brothers had the "Tynewinder". Anyone remember Micky Devlin, he had an old trawler he used for charters. Bit of a bugger was Mickey but a great guy with it. He used to pick up punters at various points along the river, and when he got to North Shields fish quay he used to tell everyone to get below. The reason for this was so that he could take on the last dozen anglers waiting to board, because Mickey knew that the "man from the ministry" would be counting them on. By the time they got out the piers she looked like a Vietnamese refugee boat, with bodies coming out from all over her.
"Hairy", but fun with it, we didn't think of life jackets and things like that when we were young and daft, oh! happy days.
The first boat to actually start taking charter parties wrecking out of the Tyne was the "Briar" skippers name was John, he lived at Stanley. In those days we didn't have Sat Nav's it was the old Decca Navigator. Many times we would set out for a wreck maybe twenty miles or so off and I can't remember how many times we would be just a couple of hundred yards from the mark and the Decca would go on the blink, as I said happy days.
Tight Lines.
Thats ware i started sam on them boats some years ago now then there was the keits (tommy scorer)harry no teeth cant think of his boat and the guy from Washington and alan skinners dad of course then the lad of the Pilate boat,THE GOOD OLD DAYS
 
I think the guy your reffering to is john leathley and yes i remember mick devlin as i worked for him skippering a number of boats he bought ......good old days anyone remember the boat ( nellie) davy lobb

Sam do you remember coming down to fish quay when i had the briar away for john you come down to take photos for angling magazine or summit

The old trawler your talking about sam is the SALVOY belonging to mickey ring ant bells
 
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I used to go out on an old wooden boat from the tyne called the Team in the early 80's when i was a kid, Bob Vaisey (?) the skipper was called and he only used to charge £5 for kids and £10 for grown ups :o
My mother would go mad when i fetched bags n bags of fish home, she'd say " can you not chuck them back, you got my kitchen stinking of fish" :D
 
sailed with micky devlin on salvoy many times,also with the grey brothers on tyne winder:D
anyone remember ocean maid out of seahouses skippered by brian pouting(spelling) also out of seahouses, sula skippered by tony winship:exclam:

those were the days boats made of wood
men made of steel:D:D
 
Your dead right the ROZ-E and Wandering Star ted and trevor two almost identical 32 aqua stars they were both bright orange

wandering star i have been trying to remember the name of that one can remember ted well.

i might as well ask this also about the mid seveties or late seventies- boat out of amble used to fish the hard ground and did very well it was very hard to booked up with him boats name?

and again two trawlers from amble i think took parties out they were the only two from up there would love to remember the names of them.
 
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I remember circa 1972/3 going fishing on a coble from Blyth, from "The Golden Fleece" pub (alighting on the ferry landing)
It was £3 a trip and my mate and I started going out on sunday afternoons, however afternoons was the casualty trips of ground baiting and line tangles. After a number of weeks in a row I was fortunate enough to be "invited" by the skipper to join their "elite" punters on a Sunday morning 6.00am till 12.00, this was a much more stable crew who took their fishing more seriously ... perfect .... must have put in a couple of years of trips until the boat was eventually retired

Remember on several occasions when it got a bit lumpy we all had to stand in the back to try and keep the prop in the water :) :) .... those were the days .... my best in those days on that boat was 7lb cod .... memories :)

norm
 
just looked in an old diary and came accross sweet chariot from blyth skippered by george turner and the boat from amble i was thinking about was the nobles

and just come accross the boat called the patricia.

these boats were in my diary dated 1984 still got there phone numbers.
 
John I went over to Fleetwood in the seventies with Ted and Clive Marrison in Teds wifes VW Beatle ,Clive was going to see a trawler called the ERIN BAY and Ted went to see the Wandering Star ,both owned by the same man.Ted bought the Wandering Star and I had a few days out on it we even used it to haul our nets one day.
 
Re the Wayside Flower ,around the same time we also went to Amble to see the Wayside Flower,she was a bit neglected and we could not get the Gardner engine to start .The boat was rigged for fly shooting with coils of ropes piled up on the deck.Couple of years later it arrived at Hartlepool owned by a lad called Franky Bergen and was rigged for trawling ,don`t know if it ever took anglers away.
 
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