Thursday, 19 January 2012
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Monday, 24 October 2011
49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011
Vintage Trailing winner at the 49th Scottish ploughing championships 2011 at Tore Ross-Shire was Michael MacKay of West Greenland Farm Castletown Thurso. With is 1929 International 10.20 Michael restored this tractor over twelve years ago after finding at a farm in Wick. The tractor was originally taken to the county when it was new by Michael great great grandfather.
49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011
49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011
Richard MacWilliam (Muir of Ord ) with is grandson Callum Matheson (4) Inverness sitting on is Grandads 1940 Fordson M
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011
Dauntsey's is a leading independent co-educational day and boarding school in the heart of Wiltshire. Unusually for a land-locked school, Dauntsey's has a long association and passion for sailing. The School Sailing Club was founded in 1970 and its association with the Jolie Brise began in 1977.
The world famous gaff pilot cutter was the last boat to carry the Royal Mail under sail and has won the Fastnet Race three times, including the first race in 1925. She has twice been the overall winner of Tall Ships Races, including the Transatlantic Races to the USA and Canada in 2000.
This Summer 2011, Dauntsey's pupils will be joining Jolie Brise to race with the Tall Ships fleet around the west coast of Ireland, through Orkney and the Shetlands to Stavanger in Norway.They will then race on to Halmstad in Sweden followed by an extensive cruise of the Baltic visiting Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Poland
Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011
The Royal Netherlands Navy has owned a sail training ship, Urania, since 1830. The name comes from Greek mythology where Urania was the muse of astronomy. Her crest represents this with the signs of the zodiac and her motto means ‘vigilance without fear’.
The current Urania is the sixth and was built in 2003/2004. The lines of Urania are based on the lines of the former Urania to a design of Olivier van Meer, but built to the 2004 standrds. She has accommodation for a crew of seventeen and is rigged as a ketech. Urania is used as a training ship for training of midshipmen.
Urania competed in the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009 and won the Firendship Trophy for this race series.
Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011
The Gloria is the official flagship and sail-training ship of the Colombian Navy, and her home port is Cartagena. Purpose-built in 1968 as a sail-training ship in the Celeya shipyard in Spain, the Gloria is over 56 meters (257ft) long - one of the biggest tall ships still afloat. She is steel-hulled, but there is plenty of polished wood and brass and her four masts and 23 sails give her an appearance of being even older than she is (every step on the ship has the name Gloria embedded in the solid brass escutcheon scuff-plates). Her figurehead, coated in glittering gold-leaf, is called Maria Salud, reputedly after the sculptor's daughter.
The Gloria has a full crew of 176, of whom up to 120 can be cadets. Our guide told us the last voyage, completed just a few months previously, was an anticlockwise circumnavigation of the South American continent via the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan; on that occasion the Gloria carried 6 female cadets.
Although from the outside the Gloria appears to be somewhat outdated, once inside the guest will be amazed. The Gloria can motor under her own power with her MAN diesel engine if so required. Computer monitors and electronic navigation instruments are used in the steering room, and air-conditioned coolness is but one surprise awaiting visitors to the officer's mess at the rear. Around the beautifully polished wooden bar, set into glass display cabinets like museum exhibits, are scores of pre-Colombian gold and ceramic artefacts. Since the ship is often invited to Tall Ship regattas around the world, the Colombian Government uses the ship to showcase its history to the foreign dignitaries who step aboard.
The Gloria has a full crew of 176, of whom up to 120 can be cadets. Our guide told us the last voyage, completed just a few months previously, was an anticlockwise circumnavigation of the South American continent via the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan; on that occasion the Gloria carried 6 female cadets.
Although from the outside the Gloria appears to be somewhat outdated, once inside the guest will be amazed. The Gloria can motor under her own power with her MAN diesel engine if so required. Computer monitors and electronic navigation instruments are used in the steering room, and air-conditioned coolness is but one surprise awaiting visitors to the officer's mess at the rear. Around the beautifully polished wooden bar, set into glass display cabinets like museum exhibits, are scores of pre-Colombian gold and ceramic artefacts. Since the ship is often invited to Tall Ship regattas around the world, the Colombian Government uses the ship to showcase its history to the foreign dignitaries who step aboard.
Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011
Wylde Swan Wylde Swan is the world largest topsail schooner, rebuilt in 2010. She will be a potential winner of Tall Ships Races, fitted out as a sail training vessel and crewed by sailors who have been professionally prepared to act as sailing tutors. She is bought, rebuilt and managed by the same team as the Swan fan Makkum. There are also little sloops on deck to sail when it is possible when she is in the harbour or anchoring close to a beach or nice isle.
Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011
De Gallant was launched in 1916 under the name Jannetje Margaretha in Vlaardingen. She served as a herring lugger in the North Sea until 1936. In 1982 she was used as a cargo vessel by her Danish owner. Then in 1987 she returned to the Netherlands and was fully restored by a teaching and work experience project for youth in Amsterdam.
She now sails in the North Sea, the Baltic and the English Channel as a sail training ship. She is a regular participant of the Tall Ships Races.
She now sails in the North Sea, the Baltic and the English Channel as a sail training ship. She is a regular participant of the Tall Ships Races.
The Christian Radich is a 241 foot, 676 ton, full-rigged ship built in 1937 in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1938 she sailed to New York for the World Fair.
In design she has the moderate sail plan of the modern training ship, with a total area of about 11,700 sq. ft., while her hull profile follows that of the traditional sailing ship, although on much finer lines since she carries no cargo other than her own stores and equipment. Her normal complement consists of a captain, three mates, six schoolmasters or instructors, a doctor, engineer, steward, cook and 100 cadets.
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