Musings Around Eddie's Noost
If you go down Sundibanks and look right, you see a little böd right at the beach. That’s Eddie’s böd. Walk down to it and there’s ...
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- Apr 19, 2020
- 5 min
Ness Yoal builders: chips and shavings by Dr Adrian Osler
Bare mention of the Ivy LK237 is quite sufficient to throw this author back over forty years in time, to a couple of days of dank summertime
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- Feb 19, 2020
- 3 min
Ness Yoals
The Ness yoal is a type of six-oared boat, originally designed and used for commercial dorro (handline) saithe fishing. ...
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- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min
Learn About Fishing Boats of Viking Origin.
...Whilst in Eastbourne I became interested in the comparison between vernacular fishing boats from nearby Hastings with those from ...
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- Jun 3, 2019
- 2 min
Boats in sheds on Whalsay
An amazing, fun day out on Whalsay looking at historic boats that are resting in sheds.
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- Mar 22, 2019
- 4 min
Stop the Rot!
In my opinion there is nothing sadder than seeing a traditional Shetland boat lying in its noost, slowly rotting away. Sadly many of...
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