Now’s a great time of year for volunteering: before the summer hurry starts, when local clubs and ships have time to do some training. I thought it’d be fun to crew aboard Shetland’s own tall ship, former fishing Fifie Swan, so I signed up to a weekend of training days.
It was blowing a hooley on the first day: Force 8 gusting 10 – not a day for taking her out, “But there
