OK Dove, a good Ganzi does not need a smock over it being proof from force 9 gales. Then again we are a tough lot up here, Blue woad, a Ganzi and a furry sporran (fur out over) is all we need.
You could try the KD jacket we wore in the Middle East and dye it blue.
The fishermen around here wear a smock over their ganzi for two reasons
1. so that when they're hauling in the crab pots they don't snag on the knitted stitches of the ganzi'
2. so that when they're gutting the fish they don't get the guts and scales all over their ganzi. Ganzis are rarely washed - they take a long time to dry. If a fisherman has a couple of smocks they can be scrubbed and washed and hung out or draped in front of the stove and will be dry the next day.
These are day boat fishermen of course ........ the practice for trawlermen is probably different.
When the herring trawler fleet sailed out of Gt Yarmouth and Lowestoft the fish were gutted by girls on the quayside of course ... a very different thing to what the dayboats did then and do now.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove correct, our day boat men off the local beaches,( you can buy fish straight out of the boat on Redcar beach), tend to wear day glow water proofs in case of capsize, quite often it seems. The very few Trawler-men still wear the ganzi as the fish come in large nets and are dropped straight onto the sorting chute. I think there are only four at Whitby now and rarely seen in Hartlepool. Gone are the days when the Scottish Herring Lassy's would arrive with the coast full of Herring Boats, the Girls would come to the dances and though cleaned up you could still smell the fish, Mother bought herring by the bucket at that time and rolled them, fresh out of the oven I could eat them by the Shoal and then cold with bread the rest of the week, "The good old days"? it was for some.
Those were the days when you could walk across Yarmouth harbour from one side to the other on the decks of the boats Frank ... long gone ...
Herring are a delicacy now ....... we can get line caught ones from the fishermen's huts on Southwold harbour in season ....... now my late Aged Ps are no longer in Southwold I make a special journey for a few plump line caught herring for supper
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Then your wife can wear it winter or summer over appropriate clothing (or less, if she's working on her tan in the privacy of your back garden!), or even under an unzipped rain jacket? It would be quick and easy to slip on and off, and less hassle than a pull over.
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He wasn't wearing a ganzi on Friday Frank, it was a blue canvas smock like the fishermen in Cromer wear over their ganzi.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OK Dove, a good Ganzi does not need a smock over it being proof from force 9 gales. Then again we are a tough lot up here, Blue woad, a Ganzi and a furry sporran (fur out over) is all we need.
You could try the KD jacket we wore in the Middle East and dye it blue.
Frank.
The fishermen around here wear a smock over their ganzi for two reasons
1. so that when they're hauling in the crab pots they don't snag on the knitted stitches of the ganzi'
2. so that when they're gutting the fish they don't get the guts and scales all over their ganzi. Ganzis are rarely washed - they take a long time to dry. If a fisherman has a couple of smocks they can be scrubbed and washed and hung out or draped in front of the stove and will be dry the next day.
These are day boat fishermen of course ........ the practice for trawlermen is probably different.
When the herring trawler fleet sailed out of Gt Yarmouth and Lowestoft the fish were gutted by girls on the quayside of course ... a very different thing to what the dayboats did then and do now.
Last edited: 09 April 2017 10:47:36
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove correct, our day boat men off the local beaches,( you can buy fish straight out of the boat on Redcar beach), tend to wear day glow water proofs in case of capsize, quite often it seems. The very few Trawler-men still wear the ganzi as the fish come in large nets and are dropped straight onto the sorting chute. I think there are only four at Whitby now and rarely seen in Hartlepool. Gone are the days when the Scottish Herring Lassy's would arrive with the coast full of Herring Boats, the Girls would come to the dances and though cleaned up you could still smell the fish, Mother bought herring by the bucket at that time and rolled them, fresh out of the oven I could eat them by the Shoal and then cold with bread the rest of the week, "The good old days"? it was for some.
Frank.
Those were the days when you could walk across Yarmouth harbour from one side to the other on the decks of the boats Frank ... long gone ...
Herring are a delicacy now ....... we can get line caught ones from the fishermen's huts on Southwold harbour in season ....... now my late Aged Ps are no longer in Southwold I make a special journey for a few plump line caught herring for supper
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ha ha Hosta
. I've not heard the term "bring & buy sale" since I stopped watching Blue Peter.
You are a very naughty Hosta......but very funny, and I like it ??
Kitty
http://www.carriercompany.co.uk/shop/31-traditional-norfolk-slop
Pretty sure this this was the female equivalent of the one Monty was wearing. I would love one myself!
Maybe just an artist apron with lots of good pockets? https://www.amazon.com/Tran-4-Pocket-Canvas-Artist-Apron/dp/B00BQWU2YA
Then your wife can wear it winter or summer over appropriate clothing (or less, if she's working on her tan in the privacy of your back garden!), or even under an unzipped rain jacket? It would be quick and easy to slip on and off, and less hassle than a pull over.