Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Onward PD 349 LOA: 9.99m Built: Catapult Catamarans Marine Projects Ltd Southampton 2019 Type: Static-gear catamaran Home port: Peterhead We’ll be back next week with our latest…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Golden Dawn FR 8 LOA: 9.99m Built: Trefjar Ltd Iceland Type: Fast potter Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…
An impressive £17,500 maiden trip provided early validation of the owners’ decision to invest in a modern and versatile ‘big’ 15m scalloper. Phil Lockley reports The gross figure from a good trip on a 30m beam trawler can be eye-watering,…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Eternal Light FR 35 LOA: 19.2m Built: Macduff Shipyards Ltd Buckie 2019 Type: Scalloper Home port: Buckie We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Stonehaven static-gear skipper Ian Mathieson, and crewmen and Buckie brothers Neal and Derek Clarke, fished their first crabbing trips on the new 14.6m potter Dalwhinnie A 913 towards the end of last month, reports David Linkie Built to a high…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Fruitful Bough PD 109 LOA: 22.3m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Whitby, 2019 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Peterhead We’ll be back next week with our latest boat…
A 69ft fishing boat built by J&G Forbes & Co of Sandhaven in 1947 as Jessie West FR 559 for Fraserburgh skipper Alex West is still active in British Columbia, Canada, reports David Linkie. The traditional-style dual-purpose herring drifter/seine-net boat,…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Taits FR 229 LOA: 74.8m Built: Westcon Yards AS, Ølensvåg, Norway 2019 Type: Midwater trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Maureen Frances BRD 423 LOA: 9.9m Built: Cygnus 32 hull fitted out by Rank Marine, Hamble 1976 Type: Single-rig prawn trawler/potter Home port: Uig, Isle of Skye…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Pilot Me SH 130 LOA: 11.95m Built: Hull – Audacious Marine, Ramsgate; Fit-out – Scaife Fabrications, owners and others, Filey 2019 Type: Potting catamaran Home port: Bridlington…
