Trawling on an appreciable scale only dates back a century and a half, and despite the horror stories that are eerily reminiscent of the ones we still hear today, the North Sea is still full of fish, but that’s another story.
My first summer in the wheelhouse of a 20m shrimper back in the 1980s was a far cry from today. There was a Loran C set that had an unnerving habit of freezing, as did the autopilot.
There was a VHF, a good Kaijo echo sounder and a radar that, even then, belonged in a museum.
