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The Loch of Houll is home to the
Whalsay Model Yacht Club, which has a boathouse on the shore. Members of the club sail yachts with a waterline length of 60 cm in twos throughout the winter, and stage an event on Christmas Day, known as the "Yule Dee model yacht race". Locals join in with the
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averaging 8-10 oz and some over 2 lbs." On the western side of the loch is Peerie Roonie House, a ruined stone house, which still has traces of the inner face of a drystone wall and drain. Archaeologists excavating at the site discovered stone tools dated to the
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festivities during which sailing is followed by
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244:"Scarfmoor Burn, HU 554 644 GB Grid"
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97:60.359242°N 0.993337°W
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687:Huxter Fort
682:Benie Hoose
586:Setter Hill
521:Linga Sound
396:Settlements
210:brown trout
202:Setter Hill
156:Max. length
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75:Coordinates
813:Categories
661:Falsa Burn
576:West Linga
531:East Linga
488:Vats-houll
443:North Park
408:Challister
346:1 February
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230:References
164:Max. width
85:60°21′33″N
711:Buildings
506:Geography
468:Symbister
433:Marrister
215:Neolithic
88:0°59′36″W
766:Shetland
653:Streams:
478:Tripwell
473:Treawick
453:Sandwick
448:Saltness
438:New Park
428:Isbister
418:Hamister
194:Shetland
142:Scotland
60:Location
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389:Whalsay
190:Whalsay
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413:Clate
184:is a
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770:stub
551:Mooa
458:Skaw
348:2013
335:ISBN
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301:ISBN
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114:Type
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