MFV BF494 'Pansy', an old Motor Fifie Conversion

It's not often you get nice things from the postie these days

Postie knocks on the door the other day and hands me a big padded envelope. Inside were a couple of treasures and a little letter. Why don't people write letters any more? There's always something nice about a letter (rather than bills, offers of credit cards or rupert murdoch's latest wheezes to convince me sky isn't actually a waster of money)

so anyhoo, the couple of treasures inside were drawings from John Baird in Ireland, John is an artist who sketches most things but has a soft spot for old fishing boats, and takes a lot of comissions from people to draw their boats, so if you want a superb sketch of your vessel, give him a shout. He's also putting a fishing boat/trawler related site together as well at the minute under the guise of Irish Trawlers which is well worth a look.

Nowt much happening on the Pansy front, still keeping afloat (just!), I've been snowed under with work so haven't had chance to get anywhere near for a few weeks, but did almost get the old Ford Lehman Diesel spluttering into life after a year's festering in the engine room. Still no further forward with lift out arrangements, but watch this space.

Anyway, John's work:

Another great one to plan a restoration to

Absolutely thrilled with these. As much as anything else it gives me a nice target of what she should like one day