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.
Posts from the ‘trawler’ category
The Inner Harbour
The Crystal Sea
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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 Slip
The Prop
The Rois Mhairi
A visitor to the MacDuff Harbour
The fish(ing boat) out of water
The Beached Trawler at Night
The Ocean Challenge and the Ocean Way
The Replenish
The Seaker
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.
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The Trawler at Dawn (2)
The Trawler at Dawn (1)
The Scarborough trawler Courage early this morning, fishing nets ready….
