Dream Ends in Final Voyage to the Heartbreaker's Yard ; Fishing Documentary Bbc Deemed Too Moving to Show Before Election
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STANDING at the wheelhouse on his boat's final voyage, Sandy West stares straight ahead as the camera lingers on his face waiting, perhaps, for him to cry. His father died a few weeks earlier, and the skipper of the Steadfast has just described how he broke the old man's heart on his deathbed.
Mr West had resolved to let his father slip away without telling him that within weeks the family fishing boat would be torn apart in a Danish breaker's yard; that the engine, wheelhouse and electronics would be sold to foreign buyers while the hull laid down less than seven years ago was destroyed.See the full content of this document
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Dream Ends in Final Voyage to the Heartbreaker's Yard ; Fishing Documentary Bbc Deemed Too Moving to Show Before Election
It would hurt his father too much to know that the livelihood which had sustained five generations of the Fraserburgh family would not now sustain a sixth.
But the dying man confronted his son.'When he asked what I was doing I had to tell him,' Mr West explains. 'The last week of my father's life he was lying on his pillow, side on, and he woul...See the full content of this document
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