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Sailing with the silver darlings

AT Foulis Point in East Ross, generations of motorists have diverted their child passengers by pointing out the ‘crocodiles’ that lie in the water there at low tide. These two oak skeletons are all that is left of 12 Zulu herring drifters that were last hauled up in 1914 at the safe winter berth of Ardullie with the help of a farm threshing machine. Many of the skippers never returned from the First World War and those that did found steam drifters driven by engines had replaced those that relied on sails and oars.

First designed by Walter Campbell of Lossiemouth in 1879, the year of the Zululand war in South Africa, Zulus were built up to the First World War. In

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