A quiet morning in Aberdeen harbour, with oil supply boats moored alongside. Oils on hardboard 24 x 24 inches Sold from exhibition at Catterline early 2008

The Fraserburgh dual purpose boat "Girl Pat", rigged for herring fishing, passing the Bressay Light on her way into Lerwick harbour

The MV "St. Clair", the third ship to bear the name for the North of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland Shipping Company, leaves Lerwick in heavy seas, on her regular run to Aberdeen. She was the last of the sideloaders, and would be replaced, in the mid 1970's, by the first ro-ro ferry

The wooden Danish trawler "Aldebaran", from Thyborøn, in fresh weather off Sumburgh Head

The scene looking up from the pier at Lower Voe, in Shetland's north mainland

The ketch-rigged converted old fifie-built drifter "Swan", sailing south of her home port of Lerwick

9pm on a midsummer evening, viewed from the ferry "Hjaltland", the headlands of Sumburgh and Fitful, split by a sunbeam

A Shetland Yoal drawn up on the beach at Ireland, Bigton, Shetland