The six boats consist of a seine boat, stop-seine boat, anchor boat, lurker and two dippers and are all made to scale using a lines plan that Education Officer, Debbie Rogers, found in a book in the Bartlett Library. The boats will be used to demonstrate to school children how shoals of pilchards were caught with seine nets as part of the ‘Hevva, Hevva’ living history workshop. Debbie says: ‘The model boats are a much needed visual aid and will give the children the opportunity to do some hands-on learning rather than watching me demonstrate the process with some rather ghastly laminated boat shapes!’
