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Fifie-Margaret

Post by Anatol » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:47 am

On the stamp depicts a boat Margaret (Fifie) by Henry Lawson, 1890. Henry Lawson (1872–1966) was a fisherman in Pittenweem, Fife, who, as a teenager, earned extra money by painting boats. The Margaret was his father’s first boat (a type known as a fifie) and was used for line-fishing as well as drift-netting. The fifie is a traditional design of boat from the east coast of Scotland. The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was a traditional fishing boat used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters.
While the boats varied in design, they can be categorised by their vertical stem and stern, their long straight keel and wide beam. These attributes made the Fifies very stable in the water and allowed them to carry a very large set of sails. The long keel, however, made them difficult to manoeuvre in small harbours.
Sailing Fifies had two masts with the standard rig consisting of a main dipping lugsail and a mizzen standing lug sail. The masts were positioned far forward and aft on the boat to give the maximum clear working space amidships. A large fifie could reach just over 20 metres in length. Because of their large sail area they were very fast sailing boats.
Fifies built after 1860 were all decked and from the 1870s onwards the bigger boats were built with carvel planking, i.e. the planks were laid edge to edge instead of the overlapping clinker style of previous boats. From about 1905 onwards sailing Fifies were gradually fitted with engines and converted to motorised vessels.
There are few surviving examples of this type of fishing boat still in existence. The Scottish Fisheries Museum based in Anstruther, Fife has restored and still sails a classic example of this type of vessel named the Reaper. The Swan Trust in Lerwick,Shetland have restored and maintain another Fifie, The Swan, as a sail training vessel. She now takes over 1000 trainees each year, and has taken trainees to participate in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races to ports in France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland as well as around the UK.
See also viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14675.
Great Britan 2015;100g;SG?
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifie. http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/news/view ... -spotlight
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Re: Fifie-Margaret

Post by Anatol » Sun Apr 05, 2015 8:49 pm

Fifie 1903. Nederlands Antilles 2009;SG?
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