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Welcome to the Lord of the Isles Galley Trust |
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The Lord of the Isles Galley Trust is a charitable trust set up to promote knowledge of the maritime history of the Celtic galleys in Scotland. The Lord of the Isles Galley Trust owns Aileach. She was built in 1991 and has sailed as far as The Faroes in the north and Southampton in the south.  Galley Aileach is the first replica of a Hebridean birlinn Galley Aileach Galley Aileach is the first replica of a Hebridean birlinn (or West Highland Galley) ever built. She is forty feet long, clinker built in larch on oak frames. Her beam is ten feet and she draws two feet. She has sixteen oars and one square sail, hoisted on a yard and controlled by sheets and braces. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 August 2008 )
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