zaterdag 5 juli 2008

Double masted vessels with a larger foresail

The FIFIE type fishing boat.


A so called Fifie type fishing boat named Reaper. Built in 1902.
Place: Fraserburg East Scotland (FR 958) used as a sailing herring drifter.
Long: 70 feet, sails a "dipping lug foresail and a standing lug mizzen" (aft).
For information Scottisch Fisheries Museum:
http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/reaper/gallery.html





The historic harbor of St Abbs (East Scotland) in the old times of fishing by sailing boats. Mark the new white non-oiled/ tarred sails of one of the vessels

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The same fleet of St. Abbs, sailing out.

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Newlyn goat.
Service cutter

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