Shetland Boat Week

The range of tours, trips, activities, talks and exhibitions is impressive and will keep the whole family entertained. To keep up-to-date with the latest news and event announcements follow Shetland Boat Week on facebook.

The atmosphere around the Dock is one of enthusiasm and excitement as visitors old and young enjoy the programme of events.

Event website:  shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/boat-week

2017 Event Classic Sailor report: Shetland’s annual Boat Week, 7-13 August, proved a wonderful attraction for hundreds of people of all ages, locals and visitors alike, attracted to the 19th-century quaysides of Lerwick’s Hay’s dock, home to Shetland’s Museum and the epicentre of a seven-day celebration of Shetland’s maritime heritage.
Besides fascinating exhibitions on nautical themes and displays of Shetland boats, originals and reproductions, there were boaty activities of all kinds. Children rowed in the safe waters of the dock, adults around the harbour, while adventurous souls took trips in the dipping-lug rigged sixern, Vaila May, replica of the open boats that fished many miles offshore in Victorian times. Others sailed more sedately on trips in the 1901-built Swan, Shetland’s restored sail herring drifter. Star of the classic boats on display was the Shetland-built yacht Brunnhilde, copied from the Nova Scotian Tancook whaler.
Onshore events included the construction by two expert boatbuilders of a Shetland model rowing boat in the museum’s boatshed.