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Great looking little ship. The detail on, well, everything makes it really lifelike for this scale.

Fantastic drawing!

Very fine work.

Good morning, gentlemen:

Thanks for your advice, Henrik! I will continue here with some fishing boats.

Thanks to the cold Humboldt´s current, the peruvian coast is very rich in seafood, and thanks to the seafood also in guano, a very rich fertilizer. Until relatively recent times, the Peruvian fishery was of a very artisanal level, but 50 years ago, the size of the boats begun to grow up. For the anchovies, the kind of technique used was the seine fishing. In this century, the seiners were of up to 55 meters and over 400 tons of displacement. The model depicted now was a 45 meter one made and designed by the Navy´s shipyard SIMA, and is owned by TASA, the most important fishmeal maker.



Cheers.

PS: In many modified seiners, the main modifications were grafting a refrigerated store for the captures, and a bulbous bow. This vessel is new, but in the color photographs, the bulb seems to be not flush with the hull. I will be eager to listen your comments about this (maybe a less marked color in the boundaries?), because the bow looks rather odd. Thanks.

PS of the PS: Hi, Andy. This is not the Peruvian seiner that I had in mind several years ago, I will finish the drawing of that vessel soon ! I am also seeking for a proper tuna and squid fishery ships (they are the bigger vessels, because the usualy works much sea inside that the seiners).

Good morning, guys:

This is a good example of an older Peruvian seiner fishing boat, locally called "bolicheras". Build in the late XX century for the capture of anchovies and other small fish. Sometimes (like the example depicted here) one vessel is the complete fleet of the owner, and during april to september the boat is prepared for the fishing campaign of october to march.

Cheers.

Nice work, very nice additions to this thread.