7 Old Trawlers From the 80s That Are Better Than Anything New

Number 7 — The Arctic Corsair, Hull's Last Sidewinder. Built in 1960 at Cook, Welton and Gemmell in Beverley for the Boyd Line, she spent the early 1980s laid up at Hull after a 1978 conversion to midwater trawling, then was dramatically pulled out of retirement in 1985 and reconverted for standard fishing. Under Skipper Bernard Wharam she set world record earnings for a side trawler across five consecutive three week trips. She had already made history in 1976 by ramming the Icelandic gunboat Odinn during the Cod Wars, a confrontation both sides remembered well into the 80s.