Orkney boats is a leading uk manufacturer of sea angling, commercial and leisure craft. we've been building boats for well over 40 years having earned a reputation for tough and seaworthy boats that can be found all round the world.. Orkney boats have been building small working and leisure boats for well over forty years and our tough seaworthy craft can be found in harbours from iceland.... It is a family run firm that has been producing boats for nearly a century and a half. it specialises in producing wooden inshore fishing boats. there are three other boat builders on orkney- two in stromness and one in kirkwall which is a branch of an english firm producing glass fibre hulls..
Orkney boats. new horizon yachts of guernsey are delighted to have been appointed as orkney agents in guernsey. orkney boats have been building small working and leisure boats for well over forty years and our tough seaworthy craft can be found in harbours from iceland to the south pacific.. The scandinavian influence affected boat building long after the viking period came to an end. yoles from the orkney island of stroma were built in the same way as the norse boats. early scottish boat builders copied the scandinavian designs with their clinker planking and characteristic sharp stems and sterns.. In the 1980s, malakoff started building small aluminium boats to provide for shetland’s nascent aquaculture industry, particularly the new salmon farms that were popping up across the islands. the commissions have gradually become bigger and more ambitious, and in 2016 ryan led the creation of a new specialist boat-building department..
