Another shot from Aldeburgh. I don't know the back-story here, but this just intrigued me!
Subsequent edit: After further research I found this piece which explains these are restored fishing boats - "clinker boats" - and are placed on the beach in a museum setting to acknowledge Aldeburgh's history: "These wooden clinker boats have such a proud heritage. For centuries all along the coast villages have fished in these boats from the beach. If you came to Aldeburgh 200 years ago that’s what they would have been doing. These boats left on the beach are the last. When they go the whole tradition of that kind of fishing on the Suffolk coast will be gone. There are still a few people fishing from the beach - but not in those wooden boats."
Sorry Peter, I wasn't intending to push you into doing research, it was something I thought I would research when I had a bit more spare time.
It seems clinker built boats have a long history, dating back some 1800 years. Perhaps the best known examples are Viking longships, and the designs of traditional fishing boats on the Yorkshire coast are derived from them.
Ian
Sorry Peter, I wasn't intending to push you into doing research, it was something I thought I would research when I had a bit more spare time.
It seems clinker built boats have a long history, dating back some 1800 years. Perhaps the best known examples are Viking longships, and the designs of traditional fishing boats on the Yorkshire coast are derived from them.
Ian
It sometimes takes me ages to do my commenting, since I often find things to investigate and explore!
Ian