Kindred was built at the J&J Harrison Boatyard, Amble, Northumberland in 1968 and fished at Boulmer until 2010. The coble is the traditional wooden inshore fishing boat of the North East coast of England from Spurn Head in the south to Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish Border. Cobles have been built in the same way for hundreds of years to very local specifications from chalk marks on the floor, never off plans. Cobles were 5 to 9 planks clinker-built, about 27-30ft loa, the larch planking first being set into which an oak frame was 'joggled'. Twin oak keels aft and a good beam, deep forefoot seen here, steeply raked transom and pronounced tumblehome give very distinctive lines which go right back to the Viking longboat. Because there are few natural harbours on this coast, the coble was built to be beach-launched netting for white fish and for potting. Originally sailers with a dipping lugsail and jib, or rowed, in the 1930's they began to be converted to motors. The shape of the hull makes the coble exceptionally seaworthy in the north-easterly gales and short-seas which can blow up in minutes on this treacherous coast. EU Fishing Policy aimed at reducing the quota meant that every fisherman who gave up his licence was given £20,000 compensation in exchange for his traditional wooden fishing coble which would probably have been in his family for three generations, being broken up or abandoned on the foreshore to slowly rot away. Such a shame! Taken with Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) B+W film

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