Further progress on the new traditional fishing boat

Last week I was lucky enough to be able to visit retired boatbuilder Eric Paine and his friend Len, who are together building a traditional timber-built South Coast fishing vessel. The project continues to be stunning!

Eric believes this to be the first new boat of its type to be built for 45 years.

To see earlier posts about Eric and Len’s build see Building a new traditional fishing boat for Dungeness and Progress on the traditional fishing boat for Dungeness.

Gotty in Furrin’ Parts reprinted

Arthur Copping’s amusing second book about his fictionalised adventures sailing and fishing with Leigh fisherman Gotty (in real life a chap called Alfred Boynton) has been reprinted and is available from Howard Turnidge.

Read about Copping’s first Gotty book here.

A ringnetter on the iPlayer

It’s well worth watching. What a wonderful part of the world… For more on ringnetters and the Shemaron, click here.

Grand Tours with Shemaron and BBC