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…
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…
Fraserburgh drydock meets the requirements of larger classes of fishing vessels and supply boats. Early 16th century Sir William Fraser, sixth laird of Philorth, purchased the lands of Faithlie. 1542 Alexander Fraser, seventh laird of Philorth, received from King James…
Macduff Shipyards delivers 19m twin-rig trawler built at Buckie for local skipper Steven Clarke Moray skipper Steven Clarke and the crew of Caledonia III are now twin-rig trawling on grounds to the north of Scotland from Scrabster harbour, reports David…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Replenish A 77 LOA: 24.45 Built: Campbeltown Shipyard 1981 Type: Seine netter/Guardboat Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got some…
Designed and built at Macduff for St Combs skipper Bruce Buchan, the new 24m dedicated fly-shooter Achieve FR 100 combines well-proven seine-netting principles with modern technology – more from yesterday’s feature… Thistle Marine and Scantrol iSYM auto-fly-shooting Two large-capacity self-hauling…
Designed and built at Macduff for St Combs skipper Bruce Buchan, the new 24m dedicated fly-shooter Achieve FR 100 combines well-proven seine-netting principles with modern technology, reports David Linkie The result is a vessel custom-built to give optimum levels of…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Revival FR 316 LOA: 25.9m Built: James N Miller & Sons St Monans 1984 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our…
The winter mackerel fishery in the North Sea quickly gathered momentum last week, after good marks of fish were located around 50 miles southeast of Fair Isle by the first midwater boats to leave Peterhead and Fraserburgh, reports David Linkie.…
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