The Small Boat
Tag: fishing
The Trawler at Night
Photographs, Video and Stuff
The Sailor
Photographs, Video and Stuff
AKA the front bit…
Probably better known as lobster pots outside Scotland
A regular at Macduff Harbour
See a large versions of the images below here.
…or the Blue Hour, whatever you wish it to be…
You just can’t beat having a new coat of paint on your bottom…
Or, as we used to say in the days when merchant ships carried Radio Officers – QTP MacDuff (in Morse code of course).
One of the smaller fishing boats in the harbour…
Lean on somebody when the tide is out…
Ouch!
Can be painful…
Continuing with the ball theme…
A fine pair of balls…
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.
Not something you see every day…
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.
One of the older style of trawler (not many left now)
And in mono…
A visitor to the MacDuff Harbour
Another boat on the slip at MacDuff Harbour.
A boat on the slip at MacDuff Harbour
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.
….not sure how you pronounce that one!
Banff harbour, Scotland…
A novel concept. You lower a small bucket containing 1 beer, passers-by take the beer and leave a couple of Euros in the bucket. A brilliant marketing technique!!
