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2012-01-31 11:03:11 - Re: Up Helly Aa 2012
Time Lapse of UHA Galley Building

this is marvellous!

and...

UHA 2012 Bill

BBC pre-event

BBC News Pics

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Just bringing this thread back to the top for the 2013 race!!
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SOL Fleet + AIS, 26jan14 - 1630utc

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2015

Homepage blogpost

The Bill in Market Square

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2015-01-26 20:32:56 - Re: Up Helly Aa - Links and Info from 2012 to date
Last year stoertebaeker and me decide to do our own race by building a longship for the 2015 Up to Helly Aa race, and burn it as people fro these marvellous islands do every January with a real size one, record it on video and send it to SOL to see which one was more nice, and burns better.

Maybe any other SOLer want to join this new competition for the next time.

Here I link some pics from my boat, ready to burn in less than 24 hours









I hope you like it :-)



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What a lovely model!!! I wonder what the real Up Helly aa boat will be like and what colour the uniforms will be this year :-)
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2015-01-26 21:31:13 - Re: Up Helly Aa - Links and Info from 2012 to date
and here's the wrecked hull of a Footy belonging to Rod which will also be burned!! Rod grew up near Lindisfarne, which was the site of the first Viking raid on an English monastery... they do remember...




It is a curious shape because "I (Rod) was experimenting with methods to make Footy hulls with excessively cheap methods and materials--the Footy is not supposed to cost a lot of money, but it is supposed to be highly advanced in design.....This one was designed on a CAD program, the stations made of paper with foam blocks sanded to shape then glued together into a hull shape, covered in paper and piaint, then foam dissolved."
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2018




2018 Intro Blogpost


Fire Festivals VIDEO

Useful Links

Check out the following links:

Visit Shetland info
Up Helly Aa organisation
Up Helly Aa Beginner's Guide
Shetland Marinas
Shetland Webcam Network
Lerwick Port Info
Up Helly Aa .com

Please add any pics or others links that you feel will add to folk's knowledge and enjoyment of this year's race!
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