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    Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland
    Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland
    Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland
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    Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland

    By James A. Pottinger

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    With the gradual phasing out of wooden fishing boats of Scotland it is timely to record some of these handsome vessels. In the years from 1960–80 boat builders produced some of their most shapely and graceful craft, a testament to the skill of both the builders and designers. Initially the designs were a collaboration of builders and skippers, but later the implementation of statutory rules demanded a more structured approach by qualified naval architects, which inevitably resulted in a certain degree of standardisation. James A. Pottinger’s new illustrated volume concentrates solely on the graceful wooden boats, large and small, regarded by many to be the best looking boats of all. Many boats are photographed at sea, while other views range from repairs being carried out to the more melancholy sight of beautiful craft being cut up. Boats were once scrapped only due to old age, but sadly political factors now often dictate the destruction of the classic wooden craft included here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9780752492049
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      Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland - James A. Pottinger

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I have photographed boats and ships of all types in a lifetime of haunting harbours, piers, slipways and anywhere that I was likely to see a boat of any kind, large or small, new or old, building or scrapping. Thus the selection of images was naturally difficult, but was primarily governed by the availability of some record of the boat’s history.

      Information has been culled from a variety of sources: fishermen, almanacs and published sources by a number of co-operating authors. These include the compilers of the valuable accounts of boats built by the companies Jones, Thomson, and Herd & McKenzie at Buckie, which were published by the Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre in the town; also the Fishing News weekly and their former annuals compiled by David Linkie; and any sources of photos used. To all of these I am most grateful.

      Nevertheless, given the many changes of names and numbers in the life of a boat it is inevitable that some errors may have crept in, but I accept that any such mistakes are my own.

      Compilation of this volume owes a lot to the development of computers: as I write I am using one on my right to compile the text, while referring to another on my left showing the photographs. The rapid advance of technology unfortunately means my slide and negative scanner is not compatible with the latest PC operating systems, thus it has been necessary to resort to my older PC, now raised up behind me on a stool!

      Illustrations are from my own collection unless otherwise stated. I was conscious of the fact that I have very few from the west coast of Scotland, but Peter Drummond has remedied that deficiency with a number of excellent photographs.

      Last, but not least, thanks to my long-suffering wife of fifty-five years, who during compilation of my three Scottish fishing boat publications has put up with books and papers scattered all over the house, and still frequently waits patiently on many draughty corners, or, if lucky, in my car whilst I take ‘just one more photo’!

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      INTRODUCTION

      It is generally accepted that the wooden fishing boats built in the period between the end of the Second World War and the 1970s were among the most handsome in the Scottish fleet, but sadly age and the inevitable march of progress has seen many of these graceful craft now phased out and fall victim to the saw and torch. This is a factor which has naturally resulted in many of the boats included being recorded as they are being decommissioned. At the time of construction, many of these were designed for a specific mode of fishing which has now changed, leaving the boats to compete with modern vessels designed to satisfy a new set of parameters. The changes in design, construction and economics from the original conditions leave many of these wooden boats as relics of an earlier era. It is for this reason that I have decided to dedicate this volume to these graceful craft.

      Initially most wooden boats were built by builders who relied purely on their own innate skill and tradition to fashion these craft; however, the introduction of statutory regulations pertaining to stability and freeboard, as well as other categories, resulted in the designs being prepared by professional designers and naval architects who co-operated with the builders and owners to implement these requirements.

      * * *

      Many of the wooden boats were replaced by steel boats, initially the majority being built by the Campbeltown Shipyard and John Lewis of Aberdeen.

      The former, a subsidiary of the parent Lithgow group of shipbuilders, built a whole series of very successful boats in varying sizes, and the Aberdeen builders introduced a number of variants of the equally successful Spinningdale class, which in turn were an obvious development of the so-called Sputnik boats. All of these were instrumental in replacing the ageing and increasingly uneconomic near-water trawlers which operated out of Aberdeen.

      Although they represented a different style and appearance from the wooden boats most of these were good looking with shapely hulls. In fact, some of these had finer lines than the wooden boats of the same era, which were beginning to be built with much fuller hulls to take advantage of new rules which encouraged a heavier displacement hull on a limited overall length.

      The later steel boats were of an entirely different shape, mirroring the fuller lines of the later wooden boats, and with a few exceptions were either of double or single chine. The universal adoption of bulbous bows was also applied to quite small craft, down to and below the 10m class.

      I have tried to employ as wide a scope as possible to illustrate the many facets of wooden construction, from the preparation of the keel and frames through to the final and inevitable sad resting place. The publisher’s inclusion of a

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