Shetland Museum Sixareen Launch

[shetlandlive]

We have added your video to the Shetlandlive website - the social networking site just for Shetland.

[pollobionico]

Isn't there a story to be told about a crew who had seen many winters and a craft that had seen none?

[Sjofugla]

Oh, and I wish they would stop flying the scottish saltire at the museum. It's an insult to us.

[Sjofugla]

Good to see our Shetland heritage being preserved but the names they gave the two boats were very poor.

It should hav been old sea words or something.

[vikingskipdotcom]

Very interesting video! The term sixareen/sixern is the same as "seksring" in Norway - a traditional wooden boat with three pairs of oars. "Seksring" is a contraction of seksaering, or six-oaring in English.

[jamesmacgregor]

Glad I found this little film. It looks like it was a big day out in the Shetland Islands.

Was there anybody left in town or was the whole of Lerwick there? :-0

[sgoudie]

ye it was a big day. That weekend is one of the biggest weekends of the year with the Johnsmas Foy,Simmer Dim bikers rally and the street Carnival.