Hi Arthur I hope you will post some pictures of your trawler either during the build or after she is finished.
being a born and bred Fleetwood lad, from where the Boston Typhoon originally sailed, and remember seeing her in all her glory sailing up and down the channel into Fleetwood fish docks on numerous occasions, she always has a place in my memory.
However, you guys used to have another of our Fleetwood ships based in Capetown and I wonder if you ever came across her.
She was another Boston owned Trawler, called Boston Phantom, and was the first trawler in the British fleet to be fitted with PTFE expanding bags around bridge, masts and other areas of iceing where a vessel could be overcome in Icelandic winter conditions.
A friend and I built a large model of her during our woodwork lessons at high school so that the company could tank test the apparatus to shed ice build up in order to elliviate the chances of such trawlers capsizing in harsh winter conditions through "icing up".
The tank tests worked and de icing materials were fitted to the trawler.
However in real arctic conditions it didn't work as well on the full size ship as it did on the model.
One of the photos shows her in her natural environment off the North West coast of Iceland. You can see the black PTFE bags, which were electrically charged, fitted to the front of the bridge wheelhouse and other areas coloured black.
The Boston Phantom was sold out of fishing service as a rig stand by vessel, and eventually back into fishing in South Africa.
I believe she was scuttled a few years ago to make an artificial reef for divers and fishermen, off Capetown.
