Some of the boats making up
the formidable flotilla

A sgoth niseach (Ness Boat) which was used in the 19th early 20th Centuries. None of the originals survive but this replica was built by John Murdo MacLeod and launched at Stornoway in December 1994

Bee, built 1880
Type = Stroma Yole, Length = 25'
Skipper = Colin Heape

Black Gold was built by Alisdair Scott at Portsoy over the winter of 99 and spring of 2000 and launched at the 2000 Boat festival.

Broad Bay, built 1912
Type = Orkney Yole, Length = 18'
Skipper = Ian Stephen

CLAN GORDON - 1911 - Length overall (37ft)
This Loch Fine skiff was built in Argyll in around 1911 for ring net fishing on the West Coast, where she spent her working life. She fished until the 1960s, when she was bought by the then coxswain of Aberdeen lifeboat for conversion into a pleasure vessel. In the 1980s and 1990s she was extensively restored at Granton in a manner sympathetic to her original design.

Built in 1971 by Pennington Yachts and is registered in Whitehaven. She is a 30ft Freaward motor sailor with a Bermudan sloop rig. A very dry boat with a long keel she takes the weather very well. She used to be skippered by John Butler of Portnockie, who sailed her on the Stravager run many a time.. She still has a lot of her original gear including the engine a Sabb 20 horse power diesel with a variable prop.

Dormouse of Wight, built 1972
Type = IP23 Motor Sailer, Length = 6.85m
Skipper = Peter Lambie

GLAD TIDINGS - 1897 - Length overall (47ft)
Ordered in 1896 by Hugh Smith, Arbroath: a fast Fifie, light built and not to exceed 15 tons to be built by James Weir, The Shipyard, Arbroath. This was the yard in which Isabella Fortuna was built a few years later. Registered AH 213 27th March, 1897. Fished with small line and drift nets in season

Grey Seal, built 1994
Type = Grey Seal, Length = 22'
Skipper = Genevieve Jones

Greygoose, built
Type = Stevenson Projects Weekender, Length = 19'
Skipper = Roddy Hill

ISABELLA FORTUNA - 1890 - Length overall (43ft)
Originally named Isabella, she was the largest yawl in Arbroath harbour when launched in 1890. Motorised in 1928 and renamed Fortuna, she ceased fishing in August 1976. In 1980 she was restored to sail and renamed Isabella Fortuna. Bought by the Wick Society in 1997, she is used as a pleasure craft and as an ambassador for the town.

JOHANNA - 1884 - Length overall (72ft)
Originally named Oxfordshire, this English Smack was built in Rye, Sussex in 1884 at the famous shipyard of James Collins Hoad. Owned for 10 years by John William Haylock, she was sold twice in 1894 - the second time to Jákup Dahl, a general merchant in Vágur, in the Faroes, joining his company's fishing fleet. At the outbreak of World War 2 most Faroese smacks changed operation to ice fish for the market in British market, where fish was in short supply

LIBERTY - 1935 - Length overall (25ft)
Built at Fraserburgh in 1935, she was small line, hand line and creel fishing along the eastern Moray Firth coast until about 1990 when she moved to Portsoy where she was used for leisure fishing. Unfortunately she was sunk in severe weather in the harbour and sold to Portsoy Maritime Heritage and restored to her original form in 1996. Liberty has attended events as far away as Arbroath and had a new engine installed in 2006 with the help of a grant from the Moray Firth Partnership.

Misty Morn (Cornish Shrimper): Roger Tushingham will sail from Whitby, down the east coast of England, along the south and up the west coast of England and Scotland to join the Flotilla at Wick.

Moody Snoopy, built
Type = Moody 33, Length = 33'
Skipper = Robert Anderson

Mrs Muir, built 1980
Type = , Length = 34'
Skipper = Terry Atkinson

A Shetland Yole which was built by young men in Alness in 2004.Gives a " New Dawn” to people along the seaboard communities of Ross-shire.  Under the helm of the Stepping Stones project run by Milton community Woods.

A replica of the Scaffie 'Gratitude', built at Portknockie in 1896, she was built in the traditional way by Alex Slater and Sinclair Young of Portsoy Maritime Heritage over 16 months. She was launched at the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival in 1996

The Paragon II, is of scaffie shape, built by Millers of St Monans in 1935 She is 18ft over the decks, about 21ft when you add on the bowsprit and rudder. Powered by sail (gunter rigged sloop) and oar. Construction is clinker larch on oak.

REAPER - 1902 - Length overall (70ft)
A Fifie, launched at Sandhaven in 1902, she fished out of Fraserburgh until 1908 then out of Shetland till 1966. During World War II she served as a barrage balloon vessel on the south coast. After the war she was used as a general cargo vessel under the name Shetlander. Bought by the Scottish Fisheries Museum in 1975, she was restored to her original 1902 rig and operates as a floating museum of the herring industry.

Sara Anne, built 1990
Type = Shetland Foureen, Length = 20'
Skipper =

Skye, built 1978
Type = Trailer/sailer, Length = 6m
Skipper = Robbie Nicholson

A traditional long keel cruiser, launched in 1973 at Broughty Ferry on the Tay. Built to an FBR Brown design - Brown was the founder of the Royal Ocean Racing Club and was renowned for his designs of very pleasing, sea worthy cruising yachts. Splined carvel Mahogany on Oak construction. Based at Scrabster.

The first leisure boat built by Jones of Buckie shipyard and was presented to the public at the London Boat Show at Earls Court in 1960. The hull is carvel built like the fishing boats of the time and the popular style was copied in the GRP criusers which followed

SWAN - 1900 - Length Overall 20.42 metres (66.95 feet)
Launched in Lerwick in 1900, this 20m (67 ft) Fifie was then the largest fishing boat in Shetland. Having fished until 1960 she was sold and taken south. Several owners later she was discovered at the bottom of a dock in Hartlepool. Raised and repaired sufficiently to motor home in 1990, she was rebuilt and relaunched by the Swan Trust.