MFV BF494 'Pansy', an old Motor Fifie Conversion

Just realised, If every spammer that has stuck comments on with links back to all manner of shite, had given 5 minutes of labour, the old girl would have been finished months ago!

must spend half an hour a day deleting crap for everything from fake handbags car insurance to god knows what else. The spam trappy stuff I stuck in place ages ago has kept all the porn and viagra stuff out, but sheesh, some wierd old stuff gets posted, which is why anyone that posts legitimate comments (which are always welcome) doesn't see them immediately, I have to wade through the shite to get to them and publish them, but hey ho, least if I ever need to buy a truss, a pair of ugg boots, an online diploma or pay my college fees I'll know where to look

So where does Pansy's Granny fit into all this?? There was an episode of "Coast" on the beeb a few weeks back (you know the program with the scotsman with girly hair and the fat bloke you want to punch)...

They did the caledonian canal, which was interesting in itself (apart form the bits with the fat bloke in) and a little more interesting as not long after Pansy came down here from up there I got an email from the production company looking for an old boat to go along the canal in. It would have been brillaint to say yes, but I'd already pulled too many bits off to make it back up there.

Anyhoo, there they were trolling along, as they do, and had a bit of a snoop around Loch Ness, along with a small ROV underwater camera thing, again, as you do (I never leave home without one) and lo and behold there's Pansy sat on the bottom, only not this Pansy but that Pansy. the Pansy that was owned by the same family before this Pansy. That Pansy being a muckle big Zulu herring drifter, which sort of sank in Loch Ness a long time ago. Loch Ness being the place it is, and having a nice monster to look after things, the boat is in fairly good shape considering, the paint on the name boards even being reasonably intact.

Somewhere I've a photo I'll have to dog out of that Pansy under full sail, 100 years or so ago, but in the meantime, if anyone is interested, here's just the Loch Ness sequence from Coast

If you want to watch the whole shebang (including fat bloke and man with girly hair:

http://bf494.co.uk/assets/coast-on-the-caley.mp4

/** just found the pic of her above the water in all her glory. Enough to induce bowsprit envy in anyone! **/

Pansy's Granny. A true Zulu Herring Drifter under full sail. Thats some bowsprit, wouldn't fancy poking that around a tight corner!