Shepherdess gets to keep £50,000 boat

[Muck Spreader]

A nice story for a change.

Scots shepherdess gets to keep £50k boat washed up on shore near her home

Rhoda Munro discovered the ship washed up on her island home.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

 

[njneer]

A nice story for a change.

Scots shepherdess gets to keep £50k boat washed up on shore near her home

Rhoda Munro discovered the ship washed up on her island home.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Not if you owned the boat ??

 

[steveR]

Not if you owned the boat ??

Insurance Company??

 

[Bald Rick]

Don’t get much for your money if that’s £50k

And .. she looks bonny

 

[Longlowdog]

The boat I was shipwrecked on washed up on Islay (so did I) and the first person to secure it claimed maritime salvage. It was the law and they were right enough to do so. I just wish the mean spirited focker who got a free 60,000 boat in '88 had let me get my person possessions off.

 

[Bill dog]

@Longlowdog - what happened to the boat that caused it to shipwreck?
Doesn’t sound like a nice experience!

 

[dubs]

The boat I was shipwrecked on washed up on Islay (so did I) and the first person to secure it claimed maritime salvage. It was the law and they were right enough to do so. I just wish the mean spirited focker who got a free 60,000 boat in '88 had let me get my person possessions off.

ye canny drop in a story like that and walk away withoot telling the full spiel ?

 

[bobk]

A nice story for a change.

Scots shepherdess gets to keep £50k boat washed up on shore near her home

Rhoda Munro discovered the ship washed up on her island home.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Has Michel Barnier done the valuation , looks a pile of sh!t to me .

 

[Muck Spreader]

Has Michel Barnier done the valuation , looks a pile of sh!t to me .

Yes, I can't really see £50k in was little more than a decent hull, especially as she is still having to get an engine.

 

[Longlowdog]

Skipper spent 200 quid in The Mish' in Tobermory on the Wednesday before good Friday, Thursday morning after 3 hrs sleep and with a forecast offering gale force 8 to storm force skipper decides to follow a much larger vessel on our route to Girvan for a refit. Skip' gets us out of the harbour and retires to bed. I steam the boat for 22 hours straight, straight into the weather. At the point where progress becomes literally impossible due to weather and exhaustion I scream the dumb sod down in his bunk out of bed and head for a bay in which to drop a side of scallop gear over the side to anchor us. In the time it took to get on deck the boat turned slightly broadside and took an almighty wave that flipped us on our side and tried to peel the roof off. The second wave to do the same filled the air intake and left us bobbing. A string of waves convinced us that the boat wasn't the safest place to be so over the side we went. 40 minutes of swimming and we were on the beach . A walk that I can't even remember doing saw us shivering outside a farm house who kindly took us in. Being in the clutches of hypothermia but not stupid we demanded the ambulance stopped en-route to hospital so we could get a packet of smokes. When the shopkeeper saw two guys in tinfoil blankets being supported by ambulance crew he refused the somewhat soggy tenner offered and gave us f.o.c two packs of smokes. The lovely nurses took pity on us when we were presented with hospital food and ordered us a Chinese. We made the news in The Glasgow Herald. I got another bunk on the Tuesday after we got back to Skye.

 

[farmerm]

Skipper spent 200 quid in The Mish' in Tobermory on the Wednesday before good Friday, Thursday morning after 3 hrs sleep and with a forecast offering gale force 8 to storm force skipper decides to follow a much larger vessel on our route to Girvan for a refit. Skip' gets us out of the harbour and retires to bed. I steam the boat for 22 hours straight, straight into the weather. At the point where progress becomes literally impossible due to weather and exhaustion I scream the dumb sod down in his bunk out of bed and head for a bay in which to drop a side of scallop gear over the side to anchor us. In the time it took to get on deck the boat turned slightly broadside and took an almighty wave that flipped us on our side and tried to peel the roof off. The second wave to do the same filled the air intake and left us bobbing. A string of waves convinced us that the boat wasn't the safest place to be so over the side we went. 40 minutes of swimming and we were on the beach . A walk that I can't even remember doing saw us shivering outside a farm house who kindly took us in. Being in the clutches of hypothermia but not stupid we demanded the ambulance stopped en-route to hospital so we could get a packet of smokes. When the shopkeeper saw two guys in tinfoil blankets being supported by ambulance crew he refused the somewhat soggy tenner offered and gave us f.o.c two packs of smokes. The lovely nurses took pity on us when we were presented with hospital food and ordered us a Chinese. We made the news in The Glasgow Herald. I got another bunk on the Tuesday after we got back to Skye.

Don't think I would ever step on a boat again if I had been though that!!

 

[Tim s]

Yes, I can't really see £50k in was little more than a decent hull, especially as she is still having to get an engine.

Would still like her phone number ?

 

[Longlowdog]

It was exciting and to back out would have been complete loss of face anyway in a small fishing community. I was an incomer on Skye and still had a lot to prove. Then, there was money (lots of), camaraderie and the attentions of ladies in the Bakur Bar that made life quite pleasant.

 

[Bill dog]

Fair play to you! I have nothing but admiration for anyone who goes to sea to earn a living .
The shallow end of my bath is my preferred depth of water !

 

[JohnGalway]

How many kilos were in that hull to value it at 50k?

 

[TripleSix]

I like the fact that she's pleased it will carry sheep.

A proper shepherdess!