50 years plus: Thom Ryan RY 170
Back in about 1985, I travelled by road through Denmark to get to Sweden by ferry (there was no bridge then), en route to Finland. A convoluted way of getting there, some will say, but it gave me the opportunity to poke about some of the Danish harbours. At that time the Danes were still selling off the old round-stern sailing ‘kotters’, as some called them – oak on oak, solidly built sailing fishing boats adapted for the Danish anchor seine. According to one boatbuilder friend, the owners were offering ‘buy one, get one free’, they were so desperate to be shot of them. Some survived to be sailing today under private ownership and are indeed lovely vessels. Of course it was the motor ‘logger’ – or ‘shark cutter’, as it was called – that killed the old sailing boats off. Photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 10:02
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