Scotland Boat

[ShagRock]

If she's a glass boat, tis shame on me, but I'm interested in the design and shape and whether this is a common design in that part of the world?

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo187/Bayman_bucket/Boats%20Elsewhere/8949f8da.jpg

[Clan Gordon]

Hi ShagRock

The dinghy is probably GRP, but the design is fairly generic.

In Scotland there were many distinctive types of small fishing boat, but this not really one of them. Most Scottish small boat types were double ended.

In Scotland, this type of dinghy was used for inland (freshwater) loch/lake work, and as a tender to larger boats. It was not really used as a sea fishing boat. Since the 1950s and the spread of the outboad motor, it saw common use as a small pleasure/angling boat.

The basic shape of these transom stern dinghies was fairly common all over the UK, but there were many small regional variations, whereby someone could tell a NW Scotland dinghy from the small boat carried by the English sailing trawlers.