The deep forefoot and straight keel made these craft steady on the helm for fishing, particularly when trawling and dredging and the forward sheer enabled them to stand hard driving to windward, though the comparatively low freeboard aft make them wet in bad weather which they and their crews withstood magnificently. The 15 to 18 ton size were much used in the second half of the nineteenth century as a useful general purpose workboat capable of fishing in rough conditions and of making passages around Britain and Continental waters. These are the first bawley lines to be published on the net and my thanks to Ted for allowing them to be shown. If you make use of them, and that is what they are here for after all, then please give a credit to Ted. Photos of Doris are here .
Plans are under way to convert the .gif to .dxf vector format.
Typical lines of a 38 ft. to 55 ft. long Colchester Smack circa. I was told that when the Aldous yard closed in Brightlingsea they made a huge bonfire of all the drawings and half models were taken away for firewood. I have managed to find a copy of a lines drawing of a ' Fishing Smack designed and built 1909 by Douglas Stone' of Brightlingsea. As vector files are needed for CAD work the bitmap scans needed converting. I joined the scans and cleaned them up in Paintshop Pro 4.0 then saved in TIF format.