DISPLACEMENT MOTOR BOATS
oming from five generations of fishermen and having worked aboard a deep-keeled crab boat during all of my formative years, this is my favoured hull. It saved our lives in big seas on numerous occasions while we hauled crab pots in North Atlantic swells. These boats descended from designs of our Norwegian-Viking forefathers – double-ended and rounded hulls with long, deep keels and large bilge keels to further minimise yawing. Our propulsion was initially a lug sail until the transom was
