Yoal

• Fishermen in the Shetland Islands
• bought kit boats from Norway.
• These clinker-built,
• three-man rowboats were build
• and every piece named
• in Norway, disassembled,
• and shipped to the Shetlands
• where they were reassembled.
• The six boards from the keel
• are the gabbard straik,
• the Hassen straik,
• the lower and upper sools,
• the sand straik,
• and the upper wup.
• The upper wups are joined
• by the hinny spot at the horn.
• The yoal came with a mast
• and a square sail
• for when the wind was fair.
• We’ll leave it at that.