Want to get involved in maintaining and operating a traditional wooden sailing vessel? There are a number of different ways you can volunteer to safeguard, care for and sail this unique heritage asset.
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Captain Michael Gray, who retired from the post of chair person of The Swan Trust after 10 years.
Michael has been very dedicated to The Swan Trust, and has successfully steered the group through good times and bad over the years.
He was presented with a half model of the swan, hand-carved by Terry Atkinson, at a celebratory dinner in November 2009. Mr Allister Rendall now takes up the post of chair.
Want to get involved in maintaining and operating a traditional wooden sailing vessel? There are a number of different ways you can volunteer to safeguard, care for and sail this unique heritage asset.
Learn more
Shetland’s traditional tall ship Swan, LK243, is scheduled to arrive in the Western Isles this week, for a month of youth sail training and public trips around the isles. The sail training taster days will highlight opportunities for taking part in The Tall Ships Races which is returning to Scotland in 2023. While the seven- and nine-night public trips, leaving from Ullapool and Stornoway, will explore the Western Isles, including St Kilda.
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Classic sailing vessel the Swan, LK243, is to visit Orkney in May 2022 to offer sail training days for young islanders, and a day trip for the public, exploring the coasts around Kirkwall.
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