Scotland – Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways

Ordering a herring boat, Voe, Shetland, 1881

Sarah Adie shares some fascinating insights into her family’s involvement in the Shetland herring industry. Her great grandfather set up[…]

‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]

This Pathé Gazette has evocative footage of yachts racing on the Clyde in 1923, including the King’s yacht, ‘Britannia’. The[…]

The stern Scot, Charlie Barr, was arguably the best racing skipper Britain ever produced. His most famous achievement must be[…]

This ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]

This Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]

This extract is from Tim Madge’s book ‘Royal Yachts of the World’. It includes the Queen’s rebuff during a storm[…]

9 – 10 June, 1938 finds ‘Robinetta’ sailing from Ornsay to Mallaig and through the ‘Small Isles’ of Rhum, Eigg[…]

This British Pathé archive newsreel shows the Duke of Edinburgh arriving in the Royal Yacht Britannia to race in the[…]

In this first part of an extract from the 1911 cruising log of W. F. Thompson, we find him sailing[…]