Built in 1960 at the Fraserburgh boatyard of T Summers & Co, the traditional Fraserburgh yawl Amethyst has recently been lovingly refurbished at Lochaline, reports David Linkie Nearly three years ago, Malcolm Burge and Kay Nuttall fulfilled a long-cherished ambition…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Audacious BF 83 LOA: 27.8m Built: Macduff Shipyards Ltd Type: Pair-seiner/trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got some pictures…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Soph-Ash-Jay 3 LH 60 LOA: 11.95m Built: Trefjar Ltd Iceland Type: Fast potter Home port: Burnmouth We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Uberous FR 50 LOA: 23.95m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Whitby 2018 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Jim Mckerracher has a thing about Tommy Summers yawls. John Worrall reports He’s restored two, worked on a third, and now has his fourth. And this could be the most challenging of the lot. You can tell by the line…
Our ‘Where are they now?’ feature provides brief histories, including build details, of a varied selection of fishing vessels from years gone by. Some of these vessels continue to perform successfully today, under different names to the ones they were…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Western Chieftain SO 237 LOA: 51.90m Built: Karstensens Shipyards Skagen 2018 Type: Midwater trawler Home port: Killybegs Co Donegal We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Father and son Tom and Donal Kennedy berthed their new family-owned vessel Fiona K III T 117 at Dingle for the first time towards the end of last month, reports David Linkie Being designed to fish a combination of seasonal…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Research LK 62 LOA: 79.80m Built: Vard Group AS Langsten Norway 2018 Type: Midwater trawler Home port: Symbister, Whalsay We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Karstensens Shipyard completes second new midwater trawler for Galway family South-easterly gales with gusts up to 90 knots, as Storm Deirdre tracked rapidly across the North Sea, provided an immediate test for the new Girl Stephanie G 190, as the…
