The Flying Dutchman


On Saturday afternoon a sailing ship called the Flying Dutchman moored off the harbour entrance in Dunbar.  The 111 year old ship was built in 1903 as a herring drifter and 100 years of service was converted by her owner into a luxury schooner for hire.

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SCHOONER
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts, the foremast being no taller than the rear mast(s).

Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century. The most common type of schooners, with two masts, were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running. They were also traditional fishing boats.

Schooners were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but in Europe they gradually gave way to the cutter.

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Images taken on a Fujifilm X-T1 + Fujinon XF55-200mm f3.5/4.8R (top) or Fujinon XF56mm f1.2R (bottom)

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