http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFRN-cL0Os&feature=player_embedded#
thank yew!
Hot stuff!
D’oh, thought it was a rugby reference.
Very nice, TY!
A great video.
Wooden Boat magazine http://www.woodenboat.com had a great article on a Galway hooker that had been brought to the US twenty or thirty years ago, and was sent back to Ireland to be rebuilt. The stem on these boats have forefoot (the part of the bow where the line of the hull turns back toward the keel) like a battleaxe. Heavily timbered boats with a great spread of sail. They were built as shallow draft open-water working boats for lobstering.
dave boling
Certainly many were designed for lobstering. There were a slew of hookers of all kinds of sizes and shapes up and down the west coast. The bigger boats were fin fishers, back in the old days a single haileabó, hailbut, could be hundreds of pounds and as long as a small boat. Larger hookers were also used to transport goods along the coast.
I wonder if you could catch crabs on a hooker as well… ?
Depends on the crab Uca females are notoriously unethical.
Back when I was a we’an there as a popular song called “Red Sails in the Sunset”.
If ya ask me how they set the dye in them sails back in the old days ur ine trouble.