The Monochromatic Mess of Creels…
Category: fishing
The Shekinah at dawn this morning
The Shekhina, sitting on the bottom at MacDuff Harbour leans over in the early morning sunshine.
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The Shekhina, sitting on the bottom at MacDuff Harbour leans over in the early morning sunshine.
Or, as we used to say in the days when merchant ships carried Radio Officers – QTP MacDuff (in Morse code of course).
High and dry……
All quiet and peaceful at MacDuff…
(AKA a port hole)
In case you are wondering, these ‘wheels’ stop a fishing boat’s trawl net getting caught on rocks on the sea bed.
Snow in May? Who would have believed it?
Cranes, these days, controlled from a radio-control box. Clever stuff!
Don’t forget to lubricate your parts…
The Fisher Boys and the Serenity cosy on up…
There’s something fishy about this machine…
One of the smaller fishing boats in the harbour…
I’m sure they’re used for something…
We all need something to stop us drifting away…
Even more balls!
Lean on somebody when the tide is out…
Ouch!
They come in all shapes and sizes y’know…
Can be painful…
Continuing with the ball theme…
A fine pair of balls…
Do you ever take a photograph which is terrible, breaks all the rules, and yet you still like it? Here’s an image, shot into sun, badly composed, loads of lens flare, cluttered, lots of grain and probably not entirely in focus but, who cares. There’s no such thing as a bad image!! Maybe this will be the moneymaker!
Because the fish markets are closed due to the lock-down, the fishing boats are all stuck in the harbour waiting for this dreadful virus to leave us be. And so, its a beautiful day but all quiet in MacDuff Harbour today.
Please see last post
Doesn’t everyone want a mobile shed? This shed is high above the slipway (next post) at MacDuff Harbour and it is where the chap who controls the winches stands when the pull a boat up the slipway.
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Where I have spent most of my life!!!
I’ve gone a bit arty-farty today…
Not something you see every day…
I’ve taken photographs of the Seaker before but this one from the top of the harbour wall (a sheer drop down into the sea – EEK!)
I’m guessing that the wonky ladder came later. The foot and hand holes next to the ladder were probably there before the ladder was installed. Must have been hard work chiselling out the holes. I believe the blocks are made of granite…
You’ll have to take my word for it that BF515 (BF for home port Banff, Scotland) is red (and white) but she is, and she’s being fitted out in MacDuff Harbour. In this image, it is low water and Big Red is resting on the harbour bottom.
We all need courage at the moment…..
That’s Banff, Scotland over in the far distance…
Vegetarians step away from the blog! Just help land 9 boxes of these little critters from a trawler that arrived at MacDuff Harbour about an hour ago. Until I started this job (harbour night-watchman), I had no idea it was possible to catch prawns this size in the waters off the coast of Scotland.
British fishing vessels have a name and a registration number. BF = Banff, Scotland and the registration number 9.
See a larger version of the image here.
One of the older style of trawler (not many left now)
These great big lumps of metal are towed behind trawlers. Their aquadynamic shape help to keep the ‘mouth’ of the trawl net open (a bit like wings flying through the water) and the hapless fish are caught in the net, never to escape.
The Bulbous Forefoot or, Bulbous Bow, greatly increases fuel efficiency and the fins help with stability. More about this technology (an American invention) here. The ‘snoot’ shown below belongs to a trawler but most ships are built with bulbous bows these days.
A spot of fisheye lens action at Banff Harbour
And in mono…
A visitor to the MacDuff Harbour
One of my favourite boats often found in MacDuff Harbour
