A former Cape Town-based boat builder, Maritime Industries (Pty) Ltd, built seven 83 foot glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) purse seiners in 1966 and 1967. They were nicknamed the “sewe wit olifante” by fishermen, not because of financial implications, but because of their sheer size and white resin pigmentation. They were once the largest GRP vessels to be constructed in the world. (Part 3)
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