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Originally Posted by Guddler
Fantastic photos of some really lovely fish, Cap'n! Thoroughly enjoyed them.
I think that the "Where would one put the outboard?" boat on Loch Eye may have been made in Shetland in the 1970's. A series of replicas of a (I think) Shetland fourareen were made by Thulecraft and there are still a few kicking about up here. My old man converted a wooden fourareen to have that same type of outboard well and I couldn't understand how a boat with a big hole in it could possibly float!
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Aye, we could see the well, and see how it might be where the motor should go, but we couldn't see where you would clamp the bracket - maybe there was something that had been removed. It would need to be a wee 2 HP 2-stroke if anything, and Eye only allows electrics, and you certainly wouldn't get the big gearbox of a leccy down the well
Up until recently Eye was rowing only, and I am sure the boat is simply left over from those days.
The well would be good for doing a "glass-bottom boat" type view of the bottom, except the water was quite minty when we were there.
Col