BLUEMOMENT

Drove to Helensburgh this afternoon and watched the participants in The Fife Regatta berthing.

Some random pix





Enjoy

Ash

Spooky - I was standing just behind you...

I didn't realise the Fifes built Botter's with lee boards . . . .

Arghiro wrote:I didn't realise the Fifes built Botter's with lee boards . . . .

I wasn't too sure about that one, but didn't notice her earlier, so assumed that she came in with the rest.

There was also one or maybe two with the look of working / fishing boats, but I don't have a photo.

I thought, but haven't researched, that Fife origionally built working boats before moving to 'gentlemens yachts'.

Ash

Shuggy wrote:Spooky - I was standing just behind you...

I was wearing a red Musto jacket, whilst SWMBO was wearing a black North Face with both of us trying to look as though we had every right to be on the pontoon.

We had parked in the layby at the other side of the sailing club / naval base so were rather wet by the time we got back to the car.

Ash

I was the one with a gaggle of very small children (allegedly all mine) terrorising the marina. We had parked too close to the chandler and I had succumbed to general shouts of 'ice cream' which had then been rubbed all over the inside of the car. I was curious to see what would happen if we took the mob near a gleaming Fife and let them rub their grubby mitts on the topsides but we wisely maintained a safe margin!

ash wrote:I wasn't too sure about that [lee boards] one, but didn't notice her earlier, so assumed that she came in with the rest.

There was also one or maybe two with the look of working / fishing boats, but I don't have a photo.

I thought, but haven't researched, that Fife origionally built working boats before moving to 'gentlemens yachts'.

They kept making fishing smacks and work boats. According to "Fast and Bonnie" by May Fife McCallum no lee board yachts were recorded as being built at Fairlie.