Stay curious. I spend a deal of time around sea-ports and what caught my eye here was the unusual profile of this pilot boat's prow. Inverted bows ~ sloping the wrong way ~ have a longer history than you'd think and this appears to be a combination of two types to produce what's called a 'wave-piercing' hull.
Such profiles drop in and out of fashion among large naval ships, but here the work (and the fabulous photo) is that of Frank Kowalski and his ship-yard in Ireland that appears to have sown up the fast and rugged boat market with innovative GRP hulls born of his own experience.
So take a bow, Frank Kowalski. The takeaway from all of which is that markets can be cornered by an innovative design stemming from the single-handed actions of a pioneer that will evolve to form a team involved in ongoing production.
Not always sure that's a good thing, as it requires me to do something about it.
Pilot boats are used to transport those with local knowledge of their own harbour to assist in the docking of altogether larger vessels.
