What are these? does anybody knows? thanks.....

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Hello all.

Portuguese fishermen might still use something similar, not to say the same at least at the end of the stem of the galliot bow.

From the photos I guess that, either they were using something made of rope like the "baggywrinkle", or they might would  cover a proper wooden shape, with a sheepskin. That would explain what it seems like heavy load at the edge of the yards.

What remains, is to ask a Portuguese fisherman, about the name or even the construction of that.    

Thx

 

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many thanks Thanasis......one would expect to be widely used, even in present day, in the Mediterranean area, but I dont recall to have seen it anywhere.