The "Vikings" appeared at Largs 06 September 2008. No wonder the RIB was in attendance, due to the available freeboard of this particular "longship". Methinks if this is an authentic copy, the Vikings could never have left a Fjord without swamping!
Coaster Alholmen, photographed (07 September 2008) on a very overcast day at Campbeltown's New Quay is a 13.17 single hull cargo vessel of 2580 gross tonnage. She was built by Nieuwe Noord at Groningen in the Netherlands in 1984 and is registered at Jacokbstad in Finland. She is loading a cargo of round timber for Norway.
Pictured berthing this morning at the Campbeltown ro-ro terminal is the 27m RV Alba na Mara which, it is understood, was built by MacDuff Shipyards in 2006 (?) for Fisheries Research Services, better known as the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen.