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Mystery oarsman, mystery boat, 1996.
Submitted 24 May 2017
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Mystery places or things or people
Mystery places or things or people
Alan Park
Added by Robert Thomson on 25 May 2017
The late Alan Park it is.
In the book The Far-flung Isles (Robert Hale 1961) the author Garry Hogg devotes a couple of pages to a description of a lively crossing from Hoy to Stromness in Alan's motor-boat. (Not the boat in the photo.) Hogg deploys an extensive, slightly purple, vocabulary; young Alan contributes not one word.
Any information on the double-ended skiff in the picture? It looks well supplied with oars but with room for just one rower (even allowing for the fact that Alan Park was a very big man)?
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In the book The Far-flung Isles (Robert Hale 1961) the author Garry Hogg devotes a couple of pages to a description of a lively crossing from Hoy to Stromness in Alan's motor-boat. (Not the boat in the photo.) Hogg deploys an extensive, slightly purple, vocabulary; young Alan contributes not one word.
Any information on the double-ended skiff in the picture? It looks well supplied with oars but with room for just one rower (even allowing for the fact that Alan Park was a very big man)?
Added by Ian Hourston on 26 May 2017
Stromness
