Aberdeen maritime museum

[[2574]]

I’ve been to the museum today and thoroughly recommend it to you. Most engaging for a couple of hours. Lots on the oil industry but also historic stuff. Well worth the effort to attend - and no entry charge either. The other half of your day you can easily spend having a look at the city centre - significant investment has brought a very smart modern look to the business district. And if you’ve never seen the harbour it’s worth a drive round if only to see the scale of the operation there in support of the offshore industry.

 

[ProDave]

+1

Filled a good bit of a wet day when we were thee earlier in the year.

Walk out past the harbour and there is an interesting "village" of old fishermans cottages, no doubt a conservation area now.

 

[Kukri]

I’m going to put in a plug for an excellent book, written by an old friend.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aberdeen-Line-Thompson-Incomparable-Enterprise/dp/0750978511

 

[alan_d]

+1


Walk out past the harbour and there is an interesting "village" of old fishermans cottages, no doubt a conservation area now.

Footdee (pronounced Fittie). See the Wikipedia entry for more information.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Footdee (pronounced Fittie). See the Wikipedia entry for more information.

For those who were wondering fit tae dee?

 

[jamie N]

You can also pilot a very small ROV!

 

[[2574]]

You can also pilot a very small ROV!

Yes...my wife crashed it on the sea bed...!

 

[jamie N]

Send me her CV; she sounds over qualified!!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

The only snag is that Aberdeen isn't welcoming to yachts, to the extent that it doesn't even have a page on Visit My Harbour, and the harbour web-site doesn't even mention leisure use of the harbour.

 

[[2574]]

Send me her CV; she sounds over qualified!!

Well I'm not sure - she has history as she also caused the toy nuclear reactor to explode at Sellafield - she left the plutonium rods in for too long.

 

[[2574]]

Send me her CV; she sounds over qualified!!

Well I'm not sure - she has history as she also caused the toy nuclear reactor to explode at Sellafield - she left the plutonium rods in for too long.

 

[jamie N]

Just as I thought; a natural project manager!

 

[JumbleDuck]

The only snag is that Aberdeen isn't welcoming to yachts, to the extent that it doesn't even have a page on Visit My Harbour, and the harbour web-site doesn't even mention leisure use of the harbour.

Wasn't Aberdeen the place which insisted that a yacht under tow by the RNLI be set adrift outside rather than come into the harbour? On the other hand I have heard that if you do go in they are perfectly friendly, if a little surprised.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Wasn't Aberdeen the place which insisted that a yacht under tow by the RNLI be set adrift outside rather than come into the harbour? On the other hand I have heard that if you do go in they are perfectly friendly, if a little surprised.

All I know is that the various pilots all say "Don't even think about it" (or words to that effect ) And judging by the harbour's web-site, it's difficult to see where they'd put you!

I can't recall whether we ever went in there when dad kept a boat at Dunbar; we certainly went into Peterhead, long before the marina was even thought of. I have been to Aberdeen for a medical at the Robert Gordon Institute, and also to join a survey vessel! I definitely recall us going into Arbroath and Stonehaven.

 

[JumbleDuck]

All I know is that the various pilots all say "Don't even think about it" (or words to that effect ) And judging by the harbour's web-site, it's difficult to see where they'd put you!

Well, if they do find somewhere to put you, it costs £31.25+VAT per day. I'm sure I've read and account - probably here - of someone who went in and was treated well, although there are no concessions or facilities for small craft at all.

 

[Humblebee]

I live near Aberdeen and knew the harbour quite well. Even had a wave from HM the Queen in the days when she arrived by Royal Yacht on her way to Balmoral.
Only time I've been in in a sailing boat was when I was on the Ocean Youth Trust 70 footer and we were made welcome enough but it's not an appealing harbour for pleasure craft. Golly, there isn't even a fish market at Aberdeen harbour nowadays, it is all taken over by the oil industry. The north east corner of Scotland is a bit of a void for sailing vessels, with little if anything between Stonehaven and the marina at Peterhead.