Sixareen 'Vaila Mae' September Sail 2021
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- Sailing the sixareen 'Vaila Mae' in Lerwick Harbour, September 2021. Brian Wishart skipper with a fresh breeze and two reefs in. A very enjoyable sail, and lightsome crew aboard. Gerry Firmin a stalwart crewman of the ‘Far Haaf’ Unst sixareen joined us for a sail.
The Shetland music is by 'Haltadans'.
A set called TQ2 from the album, 'Light Ida Lum'.
The Tunes are:
Aald Cettin Roe - Shetland Trad
Up da Stroods da Sailor Goes - Shetland Trad
Deil Stick da Minister - Shetland Trad
You can buy Haltadans albums from www.haltadans.com
Listen to more tracks from the band on Spotify.
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Filmed by Maurice Henderson and Gordon Henderson.
Good sailing, good times!
An exceptionally weatherly sixareen.
I enjoyed watching her bluff bow cutting through the chop!
I loved how everyone is smiling, how could anyone have a better time than this? The editor did a great job with the music too- I watched it twice!
Thanks for the nice comment, we certainly had a very enjoyable sail that afternoon, it is fine to look back on in the winter months. The old Shetland melodies seem to fit well with the motion of the boat. The middle tune is “Up da Stroods da Sailor Goes” from the days of sail!🎻
what a fine old time all of you had. !!!
Loved the old salt at the tiller though the more vigorous part, the grin oh the grin, harkens back to a time ah yes, in the storm we become our best and we unite with purpose. Fair winds fellow travelers
Yeah, there he is, all ready for weather in his denim jeans and light parka! Having the time of his life - even when he wasn't at the helm.
That is sailing!!! Beautiful! Some technical questions though. How high into the wind can one sail? And during tacking, is the sail lowered to bring the yard to the other side of the mast?
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)