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The name unveiling traditionally takes place at a boat christening, which involves striking your vessel—a not-prone-to-damage metal fixture, preferably—with a bottle of pre-scored Champagne.
The Western Flyer is a fishing boat, most known for its use by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in their 1940 expedition to the Gulf of California, the notes from which culminated in their 1941 book Sea of Cortez, later reworked by Steinbeck into The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). [1] According to Kevin Bailey, [2] "the most famous fishing ...
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Traditional fishing boats are usually characteristic of the stretch of coast along which they operate. They evolve over time to meet the local conditions, such as the materials available locally for boat building, the type of sea conditions the boats will encounter, and the demands of the local fisheries. These fishing boats in Gambia conform ...
Dragon, in Iain Lawrence's The Smugglers and The Buccaneers, The High Seas Trilogy. Ebba, Ker Karraje's pirate schooner in Jules Verne 's Facing the Flag. Ghost, seal-hunting schooner in Jack London 's The Sea-Wolf. Hispaniola, a schooner in Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island.
The dogger was a development of the ketch. It was gaff-rigged on the main-mast, and carried a lug sail on the mizzen, with two jibs on a long bowsprit. The boats were generally short, wide-beamed and small, and were used for trawling or line fishing on the Dogger Bank. The name "dogger" was effectively synonymous with ketch from the early ...
Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar. It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495. [1] ". Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel The Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Coble. The coble is a type of open traditional fishing boat which developed on the North East coast of England. [1] The southernmost examples occur around Hull (although Cooke drew examples at Yarmouth, see his Shipping and Craft[2] series of drawings of 1829); the type extends to Burnmouth just across the Scottish border.