Feb29
More photos from the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival
Chris Perkins’ photos from the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival at
Portsoy, 2006. Thanks Chris!
Chris Perkins took pity on my remark that I couldn’t see any strictly traditional boats in the photographs I had from the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, and kindly sent me these shots from the 2006 event. They show lots of small sailing boats, traditionally-built motor boats and even a steam launch.
I’m even more struck that Portsoy is a typical fishing community centred very much on the sea - indeed it seems to be holding on to the land by little more than its fingernails.
If Chris’s name is familiar, it should be - he was the winner of the Iain Oughtred-designed Macgregor sailing canoe that took away top honours at this year’s Beale Park Boat Show. Follow this link for more intheboatshed.net links relating to him and his boat, and his friends in the UK Home Built Boat Reggatta.
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