Category: Heritage
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Beer Luggers
By Mike Smylie I met a person once who really did think Beer Luggers were able-bodied men who raced around with barrels of ale across their shoulders. Seemingly they’d watched too many worldly TV programmes… […]
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The Greek Trireme Olympias – Living History
With no wrecks found some debated whether the trireme of ancient Greece was more marine myth than fact, but in 1987 one was built using plans developed by the retired Chief Naval Architect of the… […]
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NY40 MARILEE: Restoration of a Herreshoff Classic
Interesting and inspirational film from Alison Langley on restoring one of the thoroughbreds of the Herreshoff stable – the 1926 NY40 Marilee There are just four NY40s left of the 14 built –… […]
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How Eric Tabarly drowned on his way to the Fife Regatta
A wild night and a kicking gaff caused the loss of France’s greatest sailor, on his way to the first Fife Regatta – in 1998 It’s 20 years ago since France’s greatest sailor Eric Tabarly… […]
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Manx Nickeys – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie Disaster struck the Isle of Man in 1787 when much of the fishing fleet was destroyed in a particularly nasty gale at Douglas. These were the older scoute type of vessel, an… […]
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The mighty Zulu – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie From the start here I must admit to being somewhat biased. Why? Because it’s my opinion that the Zulu – which is sometimes referred to as the Moray Firth fishing vessel –… […]
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Heaving the Log
A line, to which markers or ‘knots’ were placed at eight fathom (47ft 3inches to be precise) intervals, was wound on the reel which one man holds over his head.To the end of this 500ft… […]
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Scottish salmon cobles – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie A few issues back we looked at the cobles of the coast of eastern England and this time round we’ll travel over the border to investigate the just-as-unusual cobles used, in the… […]
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Tenby Luggers – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie Tucked into a quiet corner of Pembrokeshire, Tenby was once the greatest fishing harbour in Wales and its Welsh name of Dinbych-y-pysgod (little fort of the fishes) gives a clue to the… […]
