Eastbourne fishing boats

The elliptical stern of the beached Eastbourne lugger Nona (reg. NN66) is closest to the camera in this image, with its single propeller on the keel below its eliptical lute stern planking, on the port side of which is the engine's cooling water outlet. Inboard of the bulwark timbers of the curved stern above the planking is a higher, straight board athwart the stern, presumably designed to prevent rough following seas from breaking into the boat. There are three posts on the bulwarks on either gunwale, and wooden cleats on either side just aft of the mast and foredeck. From the fore masthead a single shroud and halyard are made fast to the port side. Behind the foremast is the mizzen mast, raked steeply forward, and circumvented on its port side by the half-hoop of the steel tiller fixed to the vertical rudder post, the lower end of which projects from the lute stern planking just aft of the propeller. Nets with floats lie on the shingle on either side of the boat's stern. On the starboard side is a lidded rectangular wicker basket, intended for either fish or net storage.

Object Details

ID: P75392
Type: Negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 22 July 1935
Measurements: Overall: 120 mm x 90mm
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