Taormina, Sicily - pictures of wooden boats

[flo-mo]

More pictures: http://flo-mo.weebly.com/sicily---ta...a-mazzaro.html

[62816inBerlin]

I love those sturdy little fishing boats.
Did you ever find one rigged for sailing, however?
On the Amalfi coast the boats are virtually the same designs and I found lots of outboard brackets but only a single boat that sported a mast, on the dry in the little bay belonging to the village of Praiano.
Note the stern has been "chopped" (to accommodate an outboard?) so I guess perhaps she's used as a pleasure craft rather than as a working boat.




Did you manage to collect some info on builders etc. ?
Perhaps Peter Radclyffe can add a story here.

Cheers,
Gernot H.

[Gerarddm]

Nice hull form on those Taormina boats. The bow definitely shows some Middle Eastern design influence, not to be wondered at given Sicily's long history of being occupied by everybody and his uncle.

That orange/white paint job looks great, too.

[David Geiss]

Brings back some memories, from summer of 1981, staying in a monastery there, converted to hotel, overlooking the see of course!
Lovely!