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Met Skipper Orsborne
HE Girl Pat captured! Millions have read about
her amazing voyage, but little has been told about
·her amazing skipper.
On July I met George Orsborne last summer. 25 two friends and I were returning from Norway in our small cutter, the Star-Song.. Ö Cape Wrath, the weather came on thick, with half a gale from the south- west.
We turned back and put into Loch Eriboll, anchoring at Port Nan Con-the Inven of the Dogs. It was as well we did. By Friday night it was blowing a gale " the Cape.
About midnight on Friday the trawler Osaka ca' se in for shelter and anchored in the fairway. We were ad of company as we had been the only, boat in the loch..
On Baturday morning we went nshore for provisions. When we returned we found that the Osaka bad moored alongside our craft.
We went aboard to pay our compliments to the skipper. And met him, George Ormborne, Orsborne of the Girl Pat. This was not the old nen-dog we expected, but a young fellow. like ourselves-only a real sailor. Thirty-one years old, lear, strong, hospitable, generous, fluent in the racy idiom of the sea and already the father of eight children.
He was familiar with nearly every rock and channel on the coast of Scotland, and in high standing with the ownern be- cause of his record catches, (le calteit tu luck-but his crew knew better.)
Out came tobacco and, cider (mpro about this later) and we gat 10 yarning. Before We were through, we realised that we bad met an uncommon man. And not 'because of the facts of ha experi- ence, exciting as they were, but because of his way of looking at them.
He had had early training for the ordeal of the trawlers. And if you would like to know what that ordeal can be, talk to any fisher-
an who has been to Cape Fare- well in winter or to the Bear Inland Bank.
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A8 Oraborne was filling our glasses, he apologised
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for not having some
It sening thereal stuff " nheard. that on a previous voyage hils de- parture was delayed, and he had opened the bonded locker before in had cleared port. The Excise Oficer came aboard again, found this out, and withdrew the permit.
Bo we invited him and the mate aboard the Star-Song, and with the wind howling outside and the qer anchor holding, carried on yarns, punctuating them with nog- eing of highland dew,
He admired the Star-Song Im- mensely. Just a little bit bigger and she would fulf every sprell- cation of the boat he wanted for his roving commission round the world. He'd make that trip yet few ore paying voyages, then up with the anchor.
Admittedly our slant to Norway was a tout adventure, but had we ever heard of his single-handed passage? No? Well, he was really a Sutherlandshire man, and he was once sent to sell a cow at the market in a little village on the
To-day's Thought INSULTS-are-like bad coins: hac cannot help their being offered to us, but we need not take them.
-C, H. SPURGEON.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY
SKIPPER
OF A FISHING MOÄT:
DONALD 16016 GILLIES
George Black Orsborne
having complied with the, rentilations, under which: Certificates of Competency are granted to Skippers of Fishing Boate
This Certificate is to the effect that he in competent But, and authorizes him, to accedin, "that tape
BY ORDE
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Here is the Skipper's cer tificate and the man himself -"a young fellow'like our- selves, only a real sailor."
With the money he West Coast. bought an old twenty-foot open bout with a big lug sall. Naturally he wished to try her, and since the wind was favourable he just aalled on-round Cape Wrath. It was bitterly cald, he had neither coat nor ofiskin, and he was hungry.
Right through the Pentland Firth he went, without compass, and it was snowing so hearty at times that he had lo' take off his shirt and wring the water from 1
11.
Again the wind was favourable, oh helt on down the const, Cold and hunger and mist-and a lucky Providence perhaps drove
somewhere Ashore
near
ltın Berwick, where he was given food,
Then he sailed on till he landed. at Grimsby,
"Drarle me! They thought I was- (aft
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We were astounded. Any other man weld have been drowned, But what other man would have at- tempted that voyage?
That trip round the world though... just a little bit bigger ... what adventures... he had heard men say . . .".
"A trawler man's He was a dog's fe. Eh, Harry?"
them
BETWEEN
they told
of the Bear Island faling- The trawi comes aboard; a cod Jumps out of the bag, gives one flop on the deck and freezes stiff. And the Ash must be cleaned when caught.
There was one time when the entire crew had been at it for over two days and nights without a break. At the crew were cleaning fah, Harry Stone, the mate,
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glanced up and saw one man with ' his knife in a catfish, Cats were few in those waters,
"Fire minutes later I looked up agatu,"
sald the male, "and there was the same man with a catfish, Funny, he's got another catfish," I thought.
ried on like a chart, come back to me:
"ELLO-ELLO-ELIO-ELLO — ERIMO. We've a nasty breeze round here and have come to Friboll till it fines away. Yes, Bill, it's blowing ilke the hammers of I don't hell round this quarter. know how you've had
The market is all right. B!!!. The market is good, Bill. If you've Rot anything, you'd better come lu, Bill."
The whirring ended. Orsborne pulled the lever back, put down his earphones, and sat down.
It was late. The innte turned Ju. We suggested doing the same, but happily Osborne wouldn't hear of It. He preferred to yam,
He told us there were two Units that he'd like to do. One Wort to get a boat like ones, only a bit inrger, and go on a roving commission
Western the
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With three or four meu," he said, "and if I couldn't get them, I'd go alone,"
Ocean. And, blow me, if then I looked up again about 10 minutes later, he didn't stůl have a cut fish. Would you bellere me, it is the same catfish. The man had pot hold of the sting hook, fastened it behind him in his belt, and was getting a pod sleep on his pins."
TOWARDS midnight we went aboard the Osake Again. Orsborne wished
to call up the skipper of the Erimo (another trawler of the same fleet) on the wireless telephone to give him market reports and exchange nahing news. The Erimo was fishi- ing the Greenland banks.
You who when turning the radio dial at home, have sometimes. paused to think of the magic at your finger tips, would have been thrilled watching Oreborne ni the levers and dials that night, pick- Ing out, not a station, but a soll- tary boat 800 miles away in the talking with her Arelle, and skipper.
Orsborne made contact. Flashes of his conversation, which was car-
"What would you do?"
"Look for new grounds and do a bit of treasure hanting."
We talked about that for a lime, An idea that would have seemed visionary from anyone else seemed almost practical from him,
We asked him what the other
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thing was that he would like to
div.
"To all R open bont to America."
"Alone?" **Yes.
The trouble with most sallors who try long passages 18 physical condition. They're nil right for a 24-hour blow; then they crack. A good inte lasts longer. The kind of training, you need for that job is work like ours. three-day stretch is easy. Yes, any of these fishermen could do it If they had a mind.
A
That was n telling point with un. If our own boat hadn't been tougher than we were, neither alie nor we might have seen Erlboll. "But a small open bant--3.000 miles--alone isn't it practically Impossible?
"No." sald
Orsborne quite carnestly. Several have at- templed it."
WE saw him last on the Monday, and his final gesture was like his first. The weather had moderated. We 110 were anxious to get to sch
essed us to take a tow out of the Loch to get an offing for Capa Wrath, With a long warp out and his nelous slowed down to Presion pace, we moved out,
HOL Dutside, the seas were still laugh, and when our samzon post snapped at deck Jeral we cut the warp, shouted goodbye, and began to put abont. Orzborne
"I'll WAS warium. come back with you." he shouted, It took a tot of shalling to d sude him.
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When he saw that we were in Carnest, he put on power, and the Ovale moved out, dipping to the swell. We turned back, feeling quiet and lonely.
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