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Looks like the South Shields boys from Laygate are holidays.  

i thought it was the new college boat for south shields

Thats the Arabs fishing their 1,000,000 tonne north sea whiting quota!!

She's the K'ung Fu-tse

According to http://homepages.inf...cy/kft/kft.html

'K'ung Fu-tse (Confucius, in Chinese) is a 3-masted ocean-cruising junk, designed and built by Tom Colvin for comfortable, independent, live-aboard cruising. Maximum time of self-sufficiency depends on fuel consumption and rainfall. Colvin single handed this vessel for over 3,000 miles on one voyage, and once cruised for 11 months without putting into port for fuel or water.

K'ung Fu-tse is Colvin's ultimate cruising vessel, the design of a veteran boatbuilder drawing on 40 years of cruising experience. Colvin's design philosophy is described in his book,Cruising as a way of life, Seven Seas Press, NY 1979.

Length
48.5' (centreline of deck)
43.5' (stem to rudder stock)
52' (over rails)
Breadth
13.8' (outside of plating at deck edge)
14.3' (over rails)
Depth
4.4' (draught)

5.75' (tonnage deck to ceiling)
7.3' (deck to bottom of keel)
Registered Tonnage
28.57 gross, 21.56 net.

There is a history of the vessel together with plans at the above link. Tom Colvin sold the vessel in 1998 and I understand she is now owned by the SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SAILING CRAFT ASSOCIATION.

she looks like she is made of wood there.....
the kung fu tse was made of aluminium..
sure its the same boat?

Yes you may have a point there  

She is 'Keying II' built in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong in London festival in Battersea Park.