- Publisher: Birlinn
- Year: 2023
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 222x140mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781780277905
- Product code: 545553
Boatlines
Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal
Ian Stephen New Hardback Illustrated
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From Oban skiffs with their rounded sterns, through the deep sea trawlers of Aberdeen to the Fair Isle yole with its squaresail, Ian Stephen describes a diverse selection of vessels as he travels the Scottish coast. In addition to outlining how purpose and geography shaped their design, he also presents illustrations, anecdotes and lore that altogether build ‘some sense of their soul’.
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People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so many shapes and sizes? Then there are rowing craft or power-driven vessels which can also be considered 'classics', whether they were built for work or leisure.
As he traces the iconic forms of a selection of the boats of Scotland, Ian Stephen outlines the purposes of craft, past and present, to help gain a true understanding of this vital part of our culture. Sea conditions likely to be met and coastal geography are other factors behind the designs of a wide variety of craft.
Stories go with boats. The vessels are not seen as bare artefacts without their own soul but more like living things.
'A writer uniquely attuned to the water, and to the relationships each boat shares with the places it shaped, his stories restore past sea roads and river routes to life' - David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge
As he traces the iconic forms of a selection of the boats of Scotland, Ian Stephen outlines the purposes of craft, past and present, to help gain a true understanding of this vital part of our culture. Sea conditions likely to be met and coastal geography are other factors behind the designs of a wide variety of craft.
Stories go with boats. The vessels are not seen as bare artefacts without their own soul but more like living things.
'A writer uniquely attuned to the water, and to the relationships each boat shares with the places it shaped, his stories restore past sea roads and river routes to life' - David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge
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From Oban skiffs with their rounded sterns, through the deep sea trawlers of Aberdeen to the Fair Isle yole with its squaresail, Ian Stephen describes a diverse selection of vessels as he travels the Scottish coast. In addition to outlining how purpose and geography shaped their design, he also presents illustrations, anecdotes and lore that altogether build ‘some sense of their soul’.
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