The Peterhead pair trawler "Lapwing" is pictured in heavy seas, as she searches for the white-fish shoals.  The 80ft vessel was built at Campbeltown shipyard in 1973, and was the Fraserburgh-registered "Defiance" before being bought by the Buchan partnership of Peterhead.

The painting is 24 x 18 inches in size, and is in oils on hardboard. It was bought from the exhibition at the Creel Inn,. Catterline in early 2008.