The Broughty Ferry Dook — which is organised by Ye Amphibious Ancients' Bathing Association — gets under way at 11:00 on Sunday. The detailed programme is as follows:
11:00 Arrival Music by Bruce Whamond
12:00 noon Horn's Carnival Start
13:00 Boath Highland Dancers
13:20 Discovery Twirlers
13:50 Boath Highland Dancers. Fancy Dress Parade/Competition
14:30pm Welcome from YeAABA President Joyce McIntosh, Dook Sponsor Steve James of John James Roofing and Lord Provost Cllr Bob Duncan
14:45 Pipes and Drums of the 44th Boy's Brigade
15:00 Dook Start via Hooter
16:00 New Year's Day Raffle Draw at the Fort Hotel, Fort Street, Broughty Ferry.
All Welcome.
Despite the deteriorating weather, at 2:30 sharp, on New Year's Day over three hundred intrepid dookers took to the chilly and choppy water in Broughty Ferry harbour.
While many dookers were dressed in novelty outfits, some proved that their swimming was not compromised by their costumes. Several swimmers demonstrated their confidence in open water by swimming right across the harbour and back, while a good few swam from the slipway right down to the end of the pier.
If the swimmers were intrepid, so too were their supporters and the spectators who turned out in very good numbers to witness the first major event on The Broughty Ferry calendar.
The dook is very well established as a major spectator event attracting crowds in their thousands to Broughty Ferry harbour every new year's day. All credit to The Phibbies for organising another safe and successful dook.
It's 1st January 2014 and the event of the day is the famous Broughty Ferry Dook, reputedly Scotland's biggest, at the harbour!
Swimmers in the water at 2:30pm
Fun events leading up to the dook.
