Festival of the Sea: Harbour Voices Podcast Two

As part of Aberdeen’s Festival of the Sea 2024, we’ve created a special series of our Harbour Voices podcast. The second episode in this series features an interview with Willie Deas, skipper of The Reaper – a former Fifie Sailing Herring Drifter. 

This type of boat was the most popular design of fishing boat on the East Coast of Scotland for the greater part of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Today The Reaper is the flagship of the Scottish Fisheries Museum, and is berthed in Anstruther harbour outside the Museum. She is now equipped as a floating museum of the herring industry and sailed to Aberdeen to be part of the Festival of the Sea programme. 

In this episode Willie shares his lifetime of knowledge of The Reaper, fishing industry and the sea.