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Noss Head Sweepline


Noss Head Sweepline

The Noss Head CN 144 holding the Silver Cloud CN 267 out of the net. Don't know the name of the other CN registered boat steaming past, but she looks like she's ready to land.



    Brilliant footage Dunard but why do the West Coast men always shoot their net the wrong way roond !!
    Ask the TT men that invented it!! Seemed to work fine for the McCrindles, Sloans, Jacksons. McAlpines, Campbells McDougalls, Robertsons, Edgars, Andrews', Andersons, Brownies, Hughes', Galbraiths, McMillans, Mansons, MacLeans, MacKinnons etc......
    So the east coast men where doing it wrong awe they years ?
    No, just unorthodox, but they got back round to the winkie non the less.
    Dunard Spoke to old fisherman his theory was that it was because of what it said in the Bible "to cast your nets on the right side" can't see the east coast men being any more religious than the west! any other ideas as it must have been quite difficult working starboard side when a lot of the east coast boats where bought secondhand from the west,the hatches being in the way.Where exactly is Waterfoot can't find on Google
    Waterfoot is at the seaward end of Carradale water and was once used as a tidal haven before the current harbour was built.
    Davie (Horse) Edgar told me the first Ringers engine turned the prop anticlockwise ,so they shot the net to port because the boats turned better this way.I also asked him why the east coast boats shot to starboard and he said a lot of the east coast men did shoot to port at one time and the rest didnt know any better.
    Aye prop rotation seems the most logical answer and Dunard's right the west coast men were the experts
    Many of the early engined boats were skiffs that were converted and the shafts were off centre so probably this would have exacerbated the prop rotation effect.