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The result is \u003cem\u003eShetland’s Boats: origin, evolution and use \u003c\/em\u003e– it’s a pretty impressive work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening chapter sets the scene for us, outlining the very earliest settlement of the isles, and the sparse boat-related evidence from archaeological and saga sources, into the Norse settlement era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe settlers from western Norway obviously brought their boats with them, boats of a style that endures to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce the realms of recorded history are reached, the bare bones of the story are soon clad in an increasing volume of archival detail – which represents a testament to the huge expansion of archives and their accessibility over the past seventy years or so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis access enabled the author to explore in great detail many aspects of the centuries of importing boats from Norway into Shetland, of the kinds of boats from whillies to “great boats” pulling eight oars, along with the four- and six-oared craft in most common use, and all the accessories such as oars, spars, scoops, cordage, tar and whatnot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBesides their use for fishing, boats were essential tools for travel between isles for many centuries until the creation of roads from the 1840s onwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Earl Patrick’s day the system was governed by statute, with fares prescribed for the multitude of routes between islands, and also between many mainland places in order to avoid steep hills or shorelines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen native Shetlanders filled the trading vacuum after the retreat of visiting German traders in the early 18th century, we learn of their triangular trade route – fish to Hamburg, then domestic and fishing-related goods of every kind homeward, including a diversion along Norwegian ports to top up the cargo with timber goods – especially boats and boat parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaval blockade during the Napoleonic wars stifled this trade and expanded the practice of building the necessary boats in the isles using native skills; skills often developed and honed through the earlier need to assemble the partly-built or even kit-form boat imports. A later chapter provides an intriguing comparison between Shetland- and Norway-built boats and the contrasts in design, building practices and materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Custom House records reveal the extent of the boat-import trade over time – and in combination with merchants’ letter-books reveal the extent to which avoiding import duty was a common practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt confirms that fourareen imports generally outnumbered sixareens, and the sheer quantity of boats involved is an indicator that haaf sixareens had short working lives, seldom lasting  ten seasons before wearing out. As the 20th century came in, of course, the last fishing sixareens were retired for ever, leaving only a few to survive as flit-boats over the following decades – or as roofs for sheds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso from the Custom House, the Register of Fishing Boats dating from 1869 is a valuable source of information on individual boats, a virtual census giving owner, dimensions, rig and location. Again, the author’s detailed analysis of the register confirms the predominance of fourareens and shows the slightly uneven distribution of sixareen ownership which contrasts markedly with the ubiquitous fourareen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twentieth century brings much more archival detail, with many builders’ and fishermens’ accounts of boat construction and use – and photographic illustration aplenty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the well-known boatbuilders from the late nineteenth century onwards are still subjects of living memory, and many of their boats have happily survived, with some of  their memoirs preserved  in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis enabled the author to produce a detailed account of the progressive evolution of the “Shetland Model”, including an overview of the boats developed and kept purely for racing, right up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of the rise and fall of country regattas and the fleets of Maid class boats will evoke fond memories – and probably some regrets – in an age where the dinghy rules and the “Shetland” boat is an expensive sailing machine for a well-heeled few.    Although wooden boatbuilding is a career no longer, the author’s recording of the memories of its last professional practitioners and their teachers are worthily recorded for posterity – and not before time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll in all, as I said before, Marc Chivers has produced the first comprehensive all-embracing account of our Shetland boats and is to be congratulated along with his far-sighted sponsors and its publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI remember being of the opinion when the project was first promoted that there was enough stuff on record already, which ignored the fact that it was dispersed piecemeal throughout a huge number of archive sources here at home, along with all the others in Scotland and Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis gathering of all this material together into a coherent big-picture narrative is nevertheless a commendable achievement, and although there are – as expected perhaps – no startling revelations, the analysis is painstaking and thorough, and the end result a very welcome addition to the bibliography of its vast subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shetland Times Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39928729534534,"sku":"978-1-910997-41-3","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2996\/3458\/products\/Shetland_sBoats_2.jpg?v=1648035268"},{"product_id":"the-ponies-at-the-edge-of-the-world","title":"The Ponies at the Edge of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call this archipelago home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and routines that characterise life at the edge of the word. 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He now \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eadvises two International Seafood Investment Funds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohn’s first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Cod Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by the Shetland Heritage Publications in 2018. 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