Talk:Falmouth working boat
Latest comment: 3 years ago by ThoughtIdRetired in topic Suggested move to Falmouth working boat
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Suggested move to Falmouth working boat
editFalmouth work boat and Falmouth workboat do occur but, as far as I can see, those occurences are mainly from outside Falmouth. I have only ever heard the vessels referred to as Falmouth working boats. Examples:
- Falmouth Working Boat Association[1]
- Local yacht surveyor[2]
- Local sailing club[3]
- Local Web site[4]
- Local artist[5]
- Local newspaper[6]
I suggest the article be moved to Falmouth working boat.
Frans Fowler (talk) 20:05, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
- The various writers on traditional working craft of Britain seem to use neither term for any specific type of boat. If settling on a name, they go for:
"Fal sailing oyster dredger" (Eric McKee, Working Boats of Britain, their shape and purpose),
"Fal oyster dredging boat" (John Leather, Gaff Rig).
Edgar J Marsh quotes a letter (written in 1961) from Gerald Ruston, a boatbuilder from Restronguet - this talks about "river boats" of 15-17 ft, whose use included oyster dredging. (Inshore Craft of Britain in the Days of Sail and Oar).
The book Inshore Craft: Traditional Working Vessels of the British Isles (this is essentially the same work as the Chatham Directory of Inshore Craft), edited by Basil Greenhill and Julian Mannering has a section headed "Falmouth Working Boats". The first subsection is "Falmouth Oyster Dredger", the next section is headed "Falmouth Quay Punt".
- (I suggest that these writers represent the vast bulk of, or possibly all the authorities on British small craft worked under sail. E W White appears not to mention this type in British Fishing Boats and Coastal Craft, though discusses the Quay Punt at length.)
- Thinking of sets and subsets, I suggest that the "Fal/Falmouth oyster dredger" is the subject of the article and that it is a type of "Falmouth Working Boat" (as is the Quay Punt), so it is quite reasonable to have a local association for the broader grouping, even if most or all of the members have oyster dredgers. What that does for the proposed move? - the new article name would be better than the old one, but I a unconvinced that it is ideal.ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 23:30, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
References
edit- ^ https://www.facebook.com/FalmouthWorkingBoats/
- ^ https://www.nickhealey.co.uk/news/falmouth-working-boat/
- ^ https://www.stmawessailing.co.uk/fleets/falmouth-working-boat/
- ^ https://www.falmouth.co.uk/on-the-water/the-falmouth-working-boats/
- ^ https://chrisbillington.com/2013/08/falmouth-working-boats-revisited/
- ^ https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/sport/onthewater/849236.falmouth-working-boat/