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In August 2013 we set sail from Stromness on our second Sea Change expedition, aboard Lerwick community boat The Swan, with a crew of 27 artists, scientists and informers. More ›

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By Ruth Little
26 August 2013, 10:31am

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By Ruth Little
26 August 2013, 10:27am

Coastal forms

Pelamis wave energy infrastructure

By Jennifer Wilcox
26 August 2013, 9:14am

Links of Noltland

Links of Noltland, Westray
  On one side of Westray pier the Swan tucked in among fishing boats, heaps of creels, ropes, crates. On the other side three Westray skiffs, a century old, their narrow masts perfectly reflected in the still waters of the bay. Up on the hill a community wind turbine, spinning a local resource out of... Read more ›

By Ruth Little
26 August 2013, 9:09am

John Cumming Sketches

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By John Cumming
26 August 2013, 9:07am

The Swan Diary Extract

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The boat is a like a spider’s web, held in place by expertly spun threads in their necessary positions. They can move with the wind until fixed by the crew, or sweated into position. Each crew member is a leg of the spider, the skipper perhaps, the head. What does this spider catch? Or catch... Read more ›

By Ruth MacLennan
26 August 2013, 9:03am

Westray skiffs

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Arriving in Westray one of the first things that I notice in the fishing harbour is a small wooden boat. Only fifteen feet long, it sits on the water at a mooring looking perfectly at home. Sheltered behind the pier, moored in the bay are three more boats, almost, but not quite identical. ‘These boats’... Read more ›

By Ben Duffin
26 August 2013, 8:46am

Ring of Brodgar Stone-cam

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By Andy Crabb
26 August 2013, 8:35am

Swan Portraits

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By Ruth MacLennan
23 August 2013, 6:41pm

Rackwick, Hoy

Hoy Cliffs
On deck on the Swan on a choppy grey morning, sitting by a bucket of mackerel caught just now by our engineer Ian. We’re at Lyness in Hoy, waiting for the tide to turn before we head out through the race to sail to Kirkwall. Yesterday we walked up to the Old Man of Hoy,... Read more ›

By Ruth Little
23 August 2013, 6:28pm

Walking the cliffs with Morag

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Morag MacInnes invited us to visit her in Quoyloo, north-west of Stromness, to follow up on a conversation we had last year, when she talked of the disconnection between developers, policy-makers and local people around the industrialization of new renewables – wind and tidal energy – on Orkney. ‘I want to say to everyone who... Read more ›

By Ruth Little
23 August 2013, 6:19pm

Cape Farewell

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I start noticing stuff as soon as I am in Kings Cross waiting for my train….the cab I’ve just used and its petrol, the whacking great lit notice board, the train…particularly my sausage roll and offer, with its tinfoil, plethora of service totes, greaseproof paper, curly thing to carry hot coffee with… Then I’m in... Read more ›

By Bryony Lavery
20 August 2013, 9:31am
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