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23 January 2011

Very well done Podium - was a masterclass in sail-racing!!

From AWoL: On to the western side of the country with the Inner and Outer Hebrides(old volcanoes formed consequential to continental drift), this was under Norwegian control for many centuries and although driven out, their legacy lives on in the place names, the people and boat design. Some clans(family groups) are more Gaelic, some are predominantly Norse, genetically, but all are Gaelic culturally.Despite the onslaught of mass media the Gaelic culture hangs on...just. However there are encouraging signs of a comeback.

It would be a great loss to lose music such as this and this


From AWoL: Breathes the man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said " This is my own, my native land"

Well, this is my patch and following the example of our Turkish friends in the Sail Around Turkey 2010, I will endeavour to enlighten you, but if in doing so, I leave lots of questions unanswered then I will have done my job.

As we start our race in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde here is a video of some old ladies strutting their stuff in the land of their birth, the Firth of Clyde. Best watched in full screen mode.


The Shetland Isles are a group of about 100 islands off the NE coast of the British mainland, as close to Norway as they are to Aberdeen in Scotland,. They have been inhabited for about 5000 years and have to this day retained many of the traditions and customs of those who lived there. Little is known about the original Pictish people as they appear to have been displaced when the Vikings arrived in the 700s. Over many years the Viking and Scandinavian influence was strengthened and it was only in the 15th century that rule over the islands was handed to Scotland by the King of Norway as part of his daughter's dowry.

The Up Helly Aa festival is intended to recapture a little of that Viking influence but is actually a relatively new tradition, first being celebrated in Lerwick in the 19th century. These days it is a fairly riotous and colourful fire festival and the streets of Lerwick fill with "guizers" - people disguised as Vikings!!

So... routing via Muckle Flugga, almost the northernmost point in the British Isles, we need to try and get ourselves round to Lerwick for next Tuesday evening!!

HU4741 : Up Helly Aa (2) - the Jarl Squad by Anne Burgess
click on image for larger version and attribution HU4741 : Up Helly Aa (6) - Setting Fire to the Galley by Anne Burgess
click on image for larger version and attribution.

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