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Piglet is our 4 metre long RIB (rigid inflatable boat) powered by a 40 hp Mariner 2 stroke outboard. Ideal for learning basic boathandling and seamanship skills she is also a very useful versatile craft in skilled hands. |
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Like most craft of this size she is fast and extremely manoueverable and is an ideal introduction to learning safe seamanship. She’s also a lot of fun. |
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Stewart MacLellan going solo
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Coming alongside a stationary Badger to transfer passengers during a recent trip to the sandbanks in the middle of the Tay.
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Stewart “practising?” skelping through Badger’s wake..
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Piglet coming under hostile fire from treacherous Fifers on the south shore of the Tay.
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OK. this is a fake, but we still got prisoners.
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Fifer prisoner
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As well as training our members in rib handling on the Tay, Piglet has been used as a safety boat, escorting swimmers, rowers, and sailing dingies. She can be towed behind Badger and proved extremely useful when MVS Tay escorted David Winch on his sponsored row from Perth to Broughty Ferry. She has also been used (due to her small size and manouverability) for conducting structural surveys from the water.
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David Winch being met by his wife (and Broughty Ferry Lifeboat) at the Tay Road Bridge. Taken from Piglet.
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Piglet sometimes acts as escort to the safety boats during the longer Phibbies swim from Balmerino to Broughty Ferry. This was at Balmerino just before the start of the swim.
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MVS Tay gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of H. M. Revenue and Customs, The D. C. Thomson Charitable Trust, The Bell's Nautical Trust, Mrs. M. Robertson-Black, The Tay Charitable Trust, The St. Katherine's Fund, The Robertson Trust, The Lang Foundation, Historic Scotland, Port of Dundee, Mr. David Clarke and the Tay Salmon Fishing Co. Ltd., Awards for All Scotland, The Mathew Trust, Mr. Clive McKeag
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