As featured on Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs with Paul Murton.
Supported by National Historic Ships UK Garvel Road, Tarbert, Strathclyde, UK
Traditional timber boats propelled by oar and wind have been used on the West coast of Scotland since earliest times
Shemaron 2020
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[/fusion_title]Bringing Shemaron Home to Cockenzie
   Our project Bringing Shemaron Home to Cockenzie has been awarded full funding from Salt of the Earth PSG Community Heritage Fund We are delighted to have secured funding to the [...]
Grand Tours with Shemaron and BBC
Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs. Campbeltown Loch to Lochgilphead. We were delighted when Paul Murton of Grand Tours contacted us about our ring net fishing boat Shemaron. What better place to raise the profile [...]
More About the Riotous Proceedings
Following on in our series of articles and letters published in the Glasgow Herald in 1859 after the reported riot in Tarbert. Below is the second letter in support of the Tarbert fishermen. The ban on [...]
Prohibition of the Ring Net
Prohibition of the Ring Net In 1851 the Fisheries Board prohibited the use of the Trawl (Ring) Net. The prohibition came on the heels of the final vestiges of the highland clearances. At that time [...]
Riot At Tarbert Loch Fyne
During this lovely hot summer, it can be hard to imagine a riot at Tarbert Loch Fyne. But it is a fact. The beginnings of ring net fishing in Tarbert were violent. In September of [...]
Testing the Gear Box Pipe
A short film of us taking Shemaron out on May Day bank holiday. Chris asked me to edit out the bits showing messy ropes and a really smokey exhaust. (It did stop smoking after a [...]