Colour postcard photograph of four dipping lug-sail boats racing off Scarinish during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
Tag Archives: lug sails
2019.106.1
Model of a west coast fishing village in a bottle, including houses, a three-masted sailing ship and a dipping lug sail boat. Made by Sam Stevenson, Scarinish, in the 1940s.
2019.90.2
Account of the voyage of the traditional sailing boat An Sulaire from Barra to Tiree in 1998. By skipper Kenneth Morrison of Stornoway.
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2019.90.1
Colour photograph of the traditional sailing boat An Sulaire passing through Scarinish Harbour during a visit to Tiree from Barra in 1998.
Various teams crewed An Sulaire over the years, but on this occasion the crew was Kenny Morrison, Skipper, Stornoway; Angus Brendan Macneil, Barra; Elizabeth MacInnes, Barra; Alan Maclean, Mull; David Wilson, Glasgow; Melissa Macleod, New Zealand.
2014.115.19
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 451, 25/09/2009
Local news: Skerryvore perform in China and win A&B’s Young Entrepeneur of the Year; Alan Reid MP visits Tiree; An Iodhlann’s ‘Sheaves from the Stackyard’ – Tiree at war; Lunch Club remembers 1930s Tiree; new social worker for Tigh a’ Rudha; report of Strathclyde fire chief’s visit; policing Tiree Wave Classic; Tiree-Islay exchange; report of SWRI meeting; forthcoming visit by Tobermory lifeboat; school news – fundraising for Mod trip, healthy eating week, new rugby club; letters to the editor – damage to machair at Caoles; volunteers needed for Meals on Wheels; community Powerdown project – solar hot water; poem about wind power by Nik Rawson; sheep sale results; forthcoming boat restoration course.
2018.62.10
2018.62.9
Colour photograph of Dr John Holliday (b. 1954), Tiree GP during 1988-2014, in the ‘Ròs’, a traditional dipping lug sail boat at the 1988 Tiree Regatta.