Common Fishing Crafts

Plate: St. Martin. 

Fishing craft or fishing boat is a boat or craft engaging in fishing. It can be engaged in the activity of catching freshwater or marine fish, aquaculture management or such activities as investigation, guidance, training^, and inspection.

There are many kind of fishing ranging from mother board of a whale fishery to a very small boat (one man operated). The capacity of the boat depends-upon the kind and scale of the fishery itself. Sometimes, the scale of fishing and the fishing plan are regulated by the capacity of the boat, but in both cases the boat itself is the means of production, therefore, it can be said that the fishing boat is in a broad sense, part of the fishing, gear.

Actually, the fishing boat is the most valuable item of fishing gear in commercial fishing.The fishing boat should be constructed to meet the fishing objectives.

Types 

Fishing crafts are different types (on material based).

• Rafts made of floating wooden log, branches of bamboo, hollow plastic pipes, banana tree (very temporary and simplest) etc.
• Wooden boat without sail
• Wooden boat with sail
• Wooden boat made of plywood
• Non-wood construction - ferrocement boat, fiberglass, iron/steel structure etc.

Fishing crafts (on engine power based):

•  Boats without engine, e.g. simple wooden boat with or without sail
•  Boats with engine (either inboard or outboard engine), e.g. trawler.

Common and technical term for various Parts of fishing Boat:  

A boat is not a ship. The difference between a boat and a ship is quite vague, but as a rule we can say that a boat can by hoisted into a ship, whereas, a ship is too large to be hoisted into a boat or another ship.

However_, traditional boats are made generally without any plan and proper design and therefore. It is not named its parts accordingly.

Roughly, the main body of a boat can be divided into 3 parts:

1. Fore part
2. Mid-ship part and
3. After part

And can be divided bilaterally by a centre line to the port side which is on the left and starboard side which is, on the right when we stand at mid-ship or mid boat and face the fore part or stem.

Direction on boat is divided into 8 sections on the horizontal or on deck,

forward is ahead, behind is astern, Perpendicular from both sides are abeam, between ahead to abeam on the port side is the port bow, on starboard side is the starboard bow, the sections between astern to abeam on both sides are port quarter and starboard quarter.

The actual shell of the boat is called hull". The "stem" is the sharp edge for cutting throu^gh the water and the -stern" is the other end which does not normally have to cut through the water.

Common Parts of Ship

The common terms of the hull and compartments are as follows:

• "Bearn" -the width of boat/ship
• "Decks" –The flat or horizontal surfaces upon which one walk
•  "Ship sides” –up and down or vertical surfaces of the hull
•  "Bow" –the shipside’s that curve inward toward the stem
• "Quarter"–the shipside’s that curve toward the stern
• "Waterline"– the line between the wet and dry part on the ship sides
• "Free board" – the distance from the waterline to the deck
• "Draught" -- the distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the bottom
• "Compartments" — the rooms in the hull
• "Bulkhead" — the wall which divides the hull into compartments 
• "Longitudinal Bulkhead" — the wall along the center line