Fishing methods.
Does anyone know how to fish with a sail boat around the UK? For something more ambitious than a few mackerel or herring a few miles out from the harbour? No-one that I know of.
Trawling through cyberspace pulls up links for the oyster boats in Falmouth.
Or a YouTube video of oyster dredgers working in 1920...
or links to forums where yachtsmen describe hanging a lure out the back of the boat while they sail.
So, on these pages I publish all that I know. I'll add information as we go along.. Anyone with information to contribute is most welcome to get in touch (I'm not afraid of the competition!)
The book Fish Catching Methods of the World has been very useful, but even its 536 pages and 750 illustrations don't provide a definitive solution. Just lots of ideas that could be adapted or combined into possible solutions.
Basically:
A small sail boat doesn't have the power to pull a trawl net.
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A boat without an engine is difficult to manouvre accurately, making setting and retrieving gill nets or crab/lobster pots difficult.
The advantage that a sail boat has over a powered vessel is that it can cover large distances almost free of cost. It can travel to places that are visited less often by other fishing boats. And with my catamaran at least, it can stay at the fishing grounds for several days at a time.