The Low Rollers
I’m sure they’re used for something…
Posts from the ‘Ships’ category
The Bollard
We all need something to stop us drifting away…
The Ceol Na Mara
The Ball Trap
Even more balls!
The Lean-to
Lean on somebody when the tide is out…
The Crushed Balls
Ouch!
The Odd Balls
They come in all shapes and sizes y’know…
The Trapped Ball
Can be painful…
The Ball Bag
Continuing with the ball theme…
The Pair of Balls…
A fine pair of balls…
The Ocean Way
The Alongsiders
The Painters and Decorators
The Voe Jarl sits in the corner and waits…
The Wheel
A wheel that carries a considerable amount of weight.
The Fish Eyes
The Numbers
The ‘not quite the ticket image…’
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!
The Ocean Bounty around sunset…
The Seacat Heads Out…
The Seacat takes care of crew changes and delivers supplies to the big tankers and other ships that anchor off MacDuff and Banff.
The Fisher Boys at rest…
The Just Reward Snuggles Up…
The Harbour in Lockdown
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.
The Seaker Tucked Away…
The Slip
Please see last post
The Shed on Legs and Wheels
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.
Please see the next post
The Wrong Side of the Tracks
Where I have spent most of my life!!!
The Pilot Boat
The Transcend
The Chance
The trawler at rest…
The back end of the boat…
The Sea Cat
The Island Junior
The Voe Jarl’s Bridge & Monkey Island
The Monkey Island is the bit that is normally on top of a ship’s bridge where all the aerials, radar scanners and ships horn (very loud) will be found.
You can see the Voe Jarl coming into MacDuff Harbour here.
The Seaker
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!)
The Big Red Trawler
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.
The Courage (2)
We all need courage at the moment…..
The Cluster of Trawlers
The Ship in the Mist
The Port of Call
The BF9 – A Banff, Scotland Based Fishing Vessel
British fishing vessels have a name and a registration number. BF = Banff, Scotland and the registration number 9.
The Inner Harbour
The MacDuff Harbour Slip at Night
The Sidewinder
One of the older style of trawler (not many left now)
The Harbour at Night
MacDuff Harbour during the night
The Inner Harbour, MacDuff
The Doors (or Otter Boards)
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
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.
The Stairway
The Eternal Light
The Temporary Neighbour
The view from our house…
The Trawler
And in mono…
The Rois Mhairi
A visitor to the MacDuff Harbour
The Beached Trawler at Night
The Just Reward
One of my favourite boats often found in MacDuff Harbour
The back end of the fishing boat…
The Ocean Challenge and the Ocean Way
The Replenish
The Boat on the Slip (4)
The Seaker
The Boat on the Slip (3)
The Lilly Oak on the slip…
The fishing vessel Lilly Oak sits on her cradle on the slip at MacDuff Harbour, Scotland. The slip is a long sloping concrete ramp (image coming soon) used to haul boats out of the water for repair and repainting. The cradle that supports the ships runs on railway lines on the slip.
See a larger version of this image here.
The Trawler at Dawn (2)
The Trawler at Dawn (1)
The Scarborough trawler Courage early this morning, fishing nets ready….
The Harbour, MacDuff
The Bunillidh
….not sure how you pronounce that one!
The Pointed End
The Morning Star
The Fishing Boat
The Harbour (1)
Banff harbour, Scotland…
The Fishing Boat
The fishing boat…
The Trawler
The Orange Ship
We’ve been living in Banff, Scotland, for just over a week now and the orange ship has been anchored off Banff for all that time. We can’t help wondering why it is there and why it isn’t going anywhere. We watch the ship daily whilst it swings around its anchor as the tide changes. The ship with nowhere to go!
The Big Sea
The Trawler
The Patrol Boat
The Lightship and the Yang Ming Box Boat
The Very Big and the Very Little
The Washing Line
The Boat Boys
The Squirter
The Girl on a Bike on a Ferry
The Boats
The Embryonic Super Yacht
For those of you with expensive tastes…
The Cruel North Sea
The Boat
The Well-Connected
The Bridge
The Boats…
The Tourists
The Whistler
The Sailor (2)
The Sailor (1)
The Dreamer
The Rope Puller
The Tug
Many years ago I worked on deep sea salvage tugs and, since then, I’ve always had a soft spot for tugs. The second image shows the tug Statesman, the first tug I went to sea on in 1972 (this makes me feel VERY old!). The radio callsign of the statesman was 6ZQS (Liberian) but was changed to GSAA when the Statesman became registered in Britain (something to do with the Cod War!). The front of the Statesman looked like one of those expensive ocean-going yachts.
The Bag Lady
The Lady Makes Fast…
