Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
I’m grateful to Dominic Barnes for sending me these photos of Spindrift, which now belongs to his brother. She must be one of the last remaining Scottish Zulu fishing boats. She’s now a liveaboard in the Channel Islands, but I gather from Dominic that she is fully seaworthy and has a big Gardner diesel that … Continue reading “Photos of the Zulu Spindrift”
It’s in Gaelic and subtitled in English, but who cares when it features fifies and the remains of a zulu described by real experts? Click here, and settle back for a few very happy minutes. My thanks to the kind folks of the Yahoogroup Openboat for pointing out the link. For more on zulus, fifies … Continue reading “If you can, watch this BBC Alba film about fifies and zulus before it disappears”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Regular visitors will remember I recently put up a photo of Nick Gates’ boat Ocean Pearl, which he believed to be a zulu skiff because of her vertical stem and raked stern. I must say that I thought the same – and was very pleased to be able to publish a photo of … Continue reading “Ocean Pearl – zulu, fifie or baldie? Scots fishing boat expert Jay Cresswell explains”