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INSIDE Shetland's Baltasound Caithness Issue 5 Northern Lights INSIDE Shetland’s Baltasound Caithness Horizons Charles Tait – a life in pictures PLUS Guide Dog Puppy Partnership Lighthouse Cover Story: North Ronaldsay NorthLink Ferries on board magazine Welcome A warm welcome to NorthLink Ferries and Contents to Northern Lights - our on board magazine. Welcome 2 A brilliant late autumn helped visitors enjoy the Northern Isles in their splendour, Guide Dog Puppy with some lucky enough to catch wonderful displays of the Aurora Borealis on Partnership their journeys north with us. Likewise we had some great cetacean sightings 3 during the 2016 season with Killer whales, Common dolphins and Minke whales Sponsorship included in our vessel reports, indeed there were a tremendous 122 recorded sightings for ORCA Ocean Watch in a nine day reference period last July! Highlights 4 Looking forward to 2017, we will be supporting Visit Scotland’s Year of History, North Ronaldsay Heritage and Archaeology. You can join their conversation under the dedicated (cover story) 6 #HHA2017 hashtag or look out for #ScotSpirit to experience all that Scotland has to offer in the North East and Northern Isles, with stories, hidden gems and Caithness Horizons 8 top tips available. Celebrating Scotland’s My Marine Manager colleague, Captain Stuart McCallum, recently awarded Year of History, the Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service over a lifetime career in the Heritage and industry, looks after all aspects of our safety obligations and it is fitting that Archaeology 10 Stuart has been recognised by the industry for his detailed approach and contribution to this critical aspect of business planning. With this in mind, on Charles Tait – board and ashore we are ready for the winter months – all pre winter season a life in pictures preparedness activity has been completed. Our haulier customers and key 12 port stakeholders are firmly focussed on delivery of a safe operation with co- Vikling colouring operation from all parties. page 14 It’s great to see our ‘Magnus’ logo getting out there and thanks for all the Meet the Team contributions to date from our far travelled Viking. Keep these coming in and 15 sign up for our newsletter to catch the latest in his travel adventures. The Granite City 16 Dry dock 2017 beckons, perhaps even past by the time you read Issue 5, Discovering however we are planning for M.V. Hjaltland to dock in January followed by M.V. Hrossey in March. No docking for M.V. Hamnavoe scheduled Shetland’s of course for 2017. Final dates will be communicated as soon as tenders Baltasound 18 have been concluded. Otters – Shetland’s As ever, enjoy your time with us and please, if you need assistance or require Nature 20 any specific help whilst on board speak to one of my colleagues. Holiday gift guide 22 Stuart Garrett Managing Director Serco NorthLink Ferries NorthLink Ferries Contact Stuart I would welcome your feedback at any time. If you Stromness Ferry Terminal, have any questions, then please contact me at Ferry Road, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, KW16 3BH [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.northlinkferries.co.uk Issue 5 Guide Dog Puppy Partnership As part of the company’s continuing commitment to supporting disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), NorthLink Ferries has partnered with the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Working closely with the organisation’s Puppies make visits to the terminal and training centre in Forfar, Angus, groups NorthLink Ferries’ passenger vessels of guide dog puppies and their volunteer on a regular basis to help familiarise walkers have been welcomed on board them with the sights and sounds of passenger vessels MV Hrossey and ferry travel. MV Hjaltland earlier this year, along with puppy training supervisor David Mackay. Ultimately this will provide an invaluable service to passengers who are blind or Familiarising the guide dog puppies partially sighted when travelling. with the Aberdeen passenger terminal and vessels is helping to strengthen the For further information puppies’ characters and making sure about the Royal Institute they become successful working of Blind People, visit guide dogs. www.rnib.org.uk 3 NorthLink Ferries on board magazine Sponsorship highlights Designed to support community groups, the NorthLink Ferries sponsorship programme awards ferry travel to island sporting teams, schools and individuals travelling between the Northern Isles and the Scottish mainland for competitions and events. Working closely with local island communities, Lerwick Amateur Swimming Club the most recent programme has allowed Lesley Hutchison, Treasurer of Lerwick Amateur NorthLink Ferries to help individuals, clubs, Swimming Club: “The Lerwick Amateur Swimming charities and events in Orkney and Shetland by Club and its members heavily rely on travelling to way of discounted fares and travel vouchers. mainland Scotland and other parts of the UK to take part in competitions and to develop its athletes. We hear from some of the groups and individuals who have benefitted from the “Without the support of the sponsorship programme programme and their recent successes. we wouldn’t be able to attend the 12 swimming competitions we compete at each year which Netball Orkney encourage different levels of swimmers to progress Catherine Johnson, Netball Orkney Chairperson and enter new categories. and Coach: “As an organisation which travels frequently to the mainland to take part in “We have been very lucky to receive travel tournaments, our players have really sponsorship from NorthLink Ferries for as long benefitted from the NorthLink Ferries as the programme has been in place and the sponsorship programme. funding makes a huge difference to the affordability of the club.” “Our players range from primary school age to seniors and it’s great to offer people Marshall Wishart of all ages the experience of competing Marshall Wishart, motor sport driver: “Motor sport in tournaments and matches at a national is a six-round championship in Scotland which level. Not only has this boosted the players’ aims to find the fastest drivers in the country. As a confidence but representation of the club at competitor, travel to the mainland is essential - after higher level competitions also gives us better competing in all of the championships this year I links with other clubs, coaches and our National came second in a class of 16 cars which is a great Governing Bodies. This in turn has raised result for my first year. I couldn’t have done this the standard of netball locally which has led without the support from NorthLink Ferries. to a number of players being selected for national honours.” 4 Issue 5 “The sponsorship programme application is really Bringing some of the Northern Isles’ rich history straightforward and the website is full of useful to the local area, the company contributed information. I’ve found the process really easy to the Festival’s Viking-theme by sponsoring – everyone at NorthLink Ferries has been very Shetland’s Jarl Squad with ferry travel as well as a approachable and helpful.” harbour side marquee which brought the islands’ fascinating past to life with a glimpse of how Local Events people once lived and worked at sea. A number of local events both on the Northern Isles and Scottish mainland have benefited from NorthLink Ferries is continually developing its NorthLink Ferries sponsorship. sponsorship programme to be more inclusive. As requests for sponsorship are always extremely A unique wildlife cruise hosted in associated with high, the company has two structured tranche RSPB Scotland as part of 2016’s Orkney Nature periods – 1 April to 30 September and 1 October Festival offered nature lovers an experience of a to 31 March – helping maintain a streamlined lifetime on board MV Hamnavoe. award and allocation process. Sailing from Stromness, the cruise was attended NorthLink Ferries appreciate that not all travel by more than 400 people who enjoyed views of and fundraising events are known or planned far the scenic island of Hoy, the opportunity to spot in advance, so please get in touch if you wish to birds and marine life, local island produce and discuss a particular requirement. live music. More than £2,700 was raised from the event which is now supporting the wildlife charity’s Visit www.northlinkferries.co.uk/sponsorship education programme which is offered free of for further details. charge to schools in Orkney. Another event which was supported by NorthLink Ferries was the annual Scottish Traditional Boat Festival at Portsoy. 5 NorthLink Ferries on board magazine North Ronaldsay A towering light Sleep in a lighthouse- With striking horizontal nautical stripes and keeper’s cottage unrivalled in height, North Ronaldsay’s lighthouse holds the title of tallest land-based Two of North Ronaldsay’s lighthouse keepers’ lighthouse in the UK. cottages are now available as self-catering holiday rentals through The National Trust At 138 ft the lighthouse towers over the most for Scotland. Perfect for those looking for a northerly point of the Orkney’s island of North rural windswept island retreat, each offers an Ronaldsay, taking in spectacular views of open roaring fire and both are adjacent to the Shetland’s Fair Isle to the north and the vast celebrated striped lighthouse. Orcadian landscape to the south. With weekly self-catering rates available for Built in 1852 at a site known as Dennis these two-bedroom cosy cottages, it is easy Head, the lighthouse was a replacement to imagine the history contained within their to an earlier lighthouse erected just along walls, helping make these houses truly unique the coast. It was at the recommendation of lighthouse retreats. Alan Stevenson, of the famous Stevenson engineering family, that Edinburgh-based To check availability visit William Kinghorn was appointed to build www.nts.org.uk/holidays the structure.
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