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The Royal Yachting Association Scotland and SPLASH children's sailing
programmes were a huge success in 2005 and we're delighted to say that,
working with the Portsoy Parent Support Group and Banff Academy, we are holding two weeks of
sailing training in the lead up to the
Festival. We're hoping to get as many children as possible (and some adults
too) onto the water for Stage I and Stage II sailing training.
We also piloted a boat-building project in 2005 and in cooperation with
Banff Academy and Ballindalloch Estate, James Crombie, Bert Reid and Pete
Danks will work with a group of children to build a faering. (For the
uninitiated, the faering is a traditional Norwegian design almost identical
to the boats imported to the north of Scotland in the 16th/17th centuries,
and the forebear of modern types like the foureens and sixereens of
Shetland, or the Ness yole.)
Starting with the kids selecting the trees for felling, seeing the wood
being milled and then building the craft including making the sails and
ropes (and even the tar), it will be an exciting project for the team and
they look forward to showing the progress they've made at the Festival. It's
all part of the Festival's support and partnering with Sea Vision UK, the
national programme to create greater awareness of our great maritime
heritage. More ...
As ever, there'll be a mass of things to see and do on the water and
around the harbour. A host of traditional craft from all over
the country; rowing; kedging; fast and furious; craft and heritage
demonstrators; Artsability; Sea Cadets; HM Coastguard; North 58°; Puffin
Cruises and much, much more. Watch out too for local school children
who will be repeating their super street theatre, but this year on the theme
of smuggling.
