Do not forget the Billing Mary Ann kit. It is a Danish design to do the same job of catching the herrings as the Scottish and N.E. coast fishing boats.

It was boats like these that were the Wartime Shetland Express from Scotland to Scandanavia.

I have mentioned it before but there is an obscure fictional film called "Suicide Mission" which features the story.

The engines in these boats were the old gas engines and were very noisy. They could be heard way before they were often seen!
Roy

We visited the Wick Heritage Museum which is where I saw all the model boats. They had hours of reading if you took the time for each display. The volunteers were very friendly and knowledgeable about the various boats and elements that were required to make a living from the Herring catches. Barrel making, boat building and the craft used.

https://www.wickheritage.org/

Hi Ronald, the fishing boat I am working on was a model built from the Underhill plans, currently on 3 sheets at £25+ each sheet!

I guess it was built 50 years ago from these plans, and was passed on to the lady I bought it from. She had had it for a few years as a gift from a neighbour. It was on sale on Gumtree for £12! I paid for transport from Scotland to Herts. And was very pleased with it on arrival.

After enquiry I found the 992 number had never been reached so it was a bit of fiction.

I love it!
Roy

Hi chugalong loved your work on the Artur kit Looks really nice and authentic.

Roy

Roy:
You might like this one I built from a Nauticurso kit.
I added a bunch of details that didn’t come with the kit.
We all do that.
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The only kits I know of are for a Fifie. I think there are 3 kits from different sources.
The Fifie is pointed at both ends, there are a lot of plans on Sarik for them and the late Sandy Cousins wrote an excellent article on his build in Model Boats magazine maybe 20 years ago.

The photos you show are from the north of Scotland from Wick, many similar ones are in and around the Western Isles.

The Scottish Fishing museum is there as well and I had a very kind Curator give me details of the fishing boat I was working on.

My model turned out to be a Harold Underhill plan of a Ring Net fishing boat with the registration CN992 this is a fictional number CN is Cambletown. The plans are very expensive!
I am restoring this model 24 inches long as it was built as a decorative model and the waterproofing is taking time.

The scale of 1:24 will give a working sailing model and simple radio will suit, I use monperm super motors but a medium 380 with a 35 mm 3 bladed prop works well.

I prefer the 1920s/30s era models but some of the modern ones look OK.

Roy

Billings Bosts makes a number of similarly hulled kits.
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Caldercraft for the MFV, Mobile Marine Models for the modern one...

I am intrigued by these Scottish fishing vessels and like many of my models they bring back memories from them being on my workbench.

In particular are the two seen in the first photo. The closer appears to have a mast step notch in its forward deck. Zoom in on the photo and see what I am referring to.

I like the double end shape and I was told they are drifters. Very seaworthy vessels.