I have been watching your blog ever since i saw the photo on the header…The boat and the place looked familiar
We most certainly have seen it going up the river with the powerboats from Mountbatten water centre during the University of Plymouth Recreation Service sessions

I enjoyed reading this post. The preservation of some of these boats is an issue that is not met positively in Greece as well (which is where i am coming from originally)

Only for the last year or so there has been a society formed for the preservation of these boats but things are moving very slowly.

The boat you are showing is “lucky”. It has not been swept away because of a political decision to scrap it, like this one:
http://www.greektube.org/content/view/21126/2/

More pictures and another video over here:
http://aegeanwoodenwalls.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_29.html

The government (prompted by some EU financial analysis) is trying to decrease “Professional Fishing” by giving money to fishermen to give away their older wooden boats. So, what do you do with a wooden boat once you have “bought” it in this way? Well, you scrap it in the most hideous way.

Some people have found ways to convert the bigger old fishing boats to recreation vessels for small tours and things like these but the majority of these boats end up chip wood.

The way i see it, these boats are products of a tradition that goes way back. Looking at them is like looking at a compact form of knowledge and experience…The boat is like a library but it has the fate of the Library of Alexandria. I suppose i do not need to explain this any further, this place (UK but also Plymouth in particular) has a long enough naval tradition for us to have a mutual understanding on the “…Love of a boat” issue

(More “sailing in the breeze” videos please )