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Thanks @conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720

Thanks @helenjes

The Humpbacks have become fairly regular visitors to Shetland waters in November and early December on their migration. This was a particularly memorable day of whale watching. Glad you liked the music, thanks.🐋

Thanks @rogerpeppe glad you enjoyed the tunes🎻😊

Thanks @richardashbee1477 Happy New Year!✨

All the best to you across the pond! Merry Christmas🎄🎻✨

Nice to hear the music it is being enjoyed in NY State Robyn. Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the New Year. We are away out for more tunes tonight 🎻✨❄️

Glad you enjoyed the music @naomhfermin All the best to you.🎻😊

We shall surely try da Peerie Christmas Spree again another year. 👍🏻 It really was a splendid weekend of music and much hilarity.🎻

Hi, it wis certainly a memorable day up around Tangwick. The fiddle tune is one of me ain called ‘Haal in da Drogue and Gie da Boys a Biskut’. 🎻 (Fiddle is tuned AEAE)

@ Ah, super! Cracking tunes!

Well, you’ll not point as high as a fore and aft type rig but probably higher than you would think. With the peaked sail and bowline attached to give a bit of shape afore the mast, it does help her point a bit higher than a more square type sail. If you are beating and against the tide in a narrow channel you have to be pretty efficient with your tacking to make headway. In that situation the fishermen would have probably had the oars out. Here’s a link demonstrating tacking and lowering and turning of the yard. th-cam.com/video/A32Oerky8v4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Nw3PGQqCMaj62OUD You can square the sail off and she performs very well and stable downwind, as seen here with the squaring reef. th-cam.com/video/Mr9exxXZJco/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LQGto_3Tjytw4web

@@MauriceHendersonShetland Ingenious. hard work though but good fun! Not for the single handed sailor! Thanks, love it!! (saw those two video's)

Thanks @sparksagain, we will definitely look at a longer video next time we are down along the Crofthouse. 👍🏻🎻

Thanks @jeleth🎻

Thanks @RobbsHomemadeLife the sound is fine in the old Crofthouse as well. Just a stereo mic in the room.

That wid be great @williamhannah5275 maybe win doon there on a peerie tour sometime. 👍🏻

Thanks @Mark.G475 there’s a link in the description to a tutorial for the Shetland Reel if you want to give it a go. We still have a strong living tradition of fiddle music and dance here, and many a good spree!!

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Thanks for subscribing, I hope you enjoy some of the Shetland music and videos.🎻

That one fairly gets the crowd going😄🙌🏻🎻

With a bit of practice the crew get quite slick with the tacking😄

Here’s some tacking aboard the Sixareen Vaila Mae. th-cam.com/video/A32Oerky8v4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ys6Rt_H9-q_p-5nA

@@MauriceHendersonShetland Thanks for that, wow what a performance, way more involved than I thought ! I was actually expecting a windward jibe. I learnt something today 👍

@@MauriceHendersonShetland Maurice I crew on a Trimaran in the Swan River Perth Western Australia. I don’t think our sailing experience could be more different ! Cheers, 🍻

Thanks for the nice comment 🎻@patrikcalloch7953

Thanks for your comment @tombristowe846 here’s a demonstration of some tacking aboard the sixareen. th-cam.com/video/A32Oerky8v4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hPaQdP9_nP9fsEeS

@@MauriceHendersonShetland Thanks very much for taking the trouble to get back to me with that. It was interesting to watch. Not for single handers ! I also watched the video of a Sixareen square reefed and running; what a sight ! Historically, have they ever been decked over?

@tombristowe846 the Sixareens were historically always fished and sailed as open boats. The Haaf fishing declined and the use of open boats, such as sixareens, for deep sea fishing towards the end of the 19th Century. The Gloup disaster of 1881 where 56 men were lost, the move to larger decked in vessels, as well as the herring boom of the early 1900s saw the Haaf fishing come to an end. Sailing drifters soon gave way to steam drifters and then the diesel engines and outboards pretty much the end of commercial and inshore sail fishing. Some Shetland boat builders continued to build craft based on the sixareen, more commonly with smaller dimensions and designed to accommodate an engine, forward shelter or wheel house and engine aboard. Also the smaller ‘Shetland model’ class boat saw the traditional craft used in sailing for leisure as well as inshore fishing, landing fish for the table. There are still some small clinker build boats working creels and some traditional boat builders in Shetland making fourareens, yoals and other traditional craft. The sixareen however, as you can see, really performs when under sail. I can recommend this book, Shetland’s Boats if you want to read more. There exist the lines of a few more of the old sixareens and hopefully someday soon we might see replicas of these built for sailing and out on the water again. shop.shetlandtimes.co.uk/products/shetlands-boats-origin-evolution-and-use?_pos=4&_sid=350a6715a&_ss=r

@@MauriceHendersonShetland Again, thank you very much for getting back to me. I was surprised, when looking up Sixareen on Wiki, to see that they were apparently originally imported from Norway in kit form, until the middle of the 19th Century. I hadn't imagined such commercial subtleties existed in those days. A diversion online into the history of trade had to be abandoned as it was threatening to turn into an all-nighter ! All the best and I hope you have a good summer's sailing.

Thanks for the lovely comment, glad you enjoyed the footage and you got to visit the Voe, it was great to meet you. Stenness in that weather really is amazing to experience.

Thanks @jeleth I enjoy trying a few tunes on the single row box in the house but Fullsceilidh allows a rare stage appearance😄

Thanks @tizziejames9040 , a spectacular sight.

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for your comment 👍🏻

Because it’s not really a square sail.

It is a dipping lug, in Shetland we speak about it also as a square sail. The reason being that in the older form of the sixern sail it was less peaked and more of a square sail. This one has a squaring reef in the sail that allows you to take the peak out and put the yard more square across, you also move the tack further aft. This gives a very good downwind rig, that performs well improving how the boat handles. You can see us putting in the squaring reef for the downwind leg in this clip. th-cam.com/video/Mr9exxXZJco/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-MhURaqoCBhsELtB

Jim certainly loved a good session. @richardwemyss4336

Thanks for your comment Marc, much appreciated. That is nice to hear about Tom Anderson sending you the book. He did so much to keep the Shetland tunes and fiddle tradition going, and it is still going strong today thanks to his foresight to start teaching the fiddle to the youngsters. That book is a good source of Shetland tunes. You have maybe seen this book by the late Dr Peter Cooke on the Shetland fiddle tradition. An interesting read. All the best, Maurice www.drpetercooke.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Shetland-fiddle.pdf

Thanks for your kind comments, glad you enjoyed the music and video. All the best for 2024🎻