Fishing

The boat Margaret and Dennis (SN6) was built in 1959 by Dawson & Sons of Seahouses, Northumberland, for Douglas (Dougie) Clark (b. 1923) of Cullercoats. She was 36 feet (11 m) long, had a 48 hp engine and a Hyland pot hauler and cost £2500. Later in her life she became the Guiding Star (LH194, Leith) and after retirement on 19 January 1994 was displayed outside the Visitor Centre in St Abbs.

Douglas Clark ordered his second Seahouses boat, the Margaret Clark (SN160), designed by Reverend Harrison, in 1966. She cost £15,000 to build. She was 48 ft (14.6 m) long and had a 16 ft (4.9 m) beam and was the first vessel built by Dawson and Sons to have a transom stern. She was fitted with a Gardner 6L3B 150 hp engine which was later upgraded to 172 hp, and had a hydraulic winch to aid with the trawl. She was sold from North Sheilds in about 1981 for £37,000. She subsequently became Dunns (KY208, Kirkcaldy), Southern Sun (AR83, Ayr) and then Venture (AR83) and was re-sold from Troon Yacht Haven, Ayr via eBay on 2 November 2009 for £6,206. Her last reported sighting was in 2012 as a houseboat in Southampton.

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