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A grey day . From start to finish really. First turn on of the plotter told us we were in Senegal ?!?! She sorted herself out and settled down to a new normal. Bounced out into the wind and waves under motor at about 0830. The wind had threatened to change direction and at leastContinue reading “Wednesday 4 May. Badachro to Lochinver 40 nm”

A day sorting stuff. Weather gloomy and a bit windy even in Badachro which is A very protected area. We got the dinghy off and the motor… a process we do time after time and which has a particular routine that we’ve developed. Over the years we’ve watched other people doing these things and graduallyContinue reading “Tuesday 3 May. Badachro.”

It had been a peaceful night and the water was calm. We let go our big friendly orange mooring buoy and headed for the bridge. Some bridges you have to work out lots of maths to make sure you’ll fit under, but this one is high enough not to worry. Heading out from this pointContinue reading “Monday 2 May . Lochalsh to Badachro in Gairloch. 30 nm”

The wind had gone completely by the time we rose at 6 am . Arisaig harbour once more restored to peace and calm. We made our way out at about 0730 high tide, into the sound of Sleat. The wind …what there was was as usual from the N. we went a few miles inContinue reading “Sunday 1 May Arisaig to Kyle of Lochalsh 30 nm”

In the middle of the night, the wind we knew was forecast, arrived with a vengeance. This morning dawned wet and windy. Even though we were expecting it, it is a little disappointing! Glad that we’d made the sensible decision to put the motor on the dinghy whilst the water was still flat! After aContinue reading “Saturday 30 April. Arisaig”

So .. first job of the morning, try to source camping gaz to replace the “ leaky” canister. We dinghied over to the pontoons and very fortunately the little garage just near the harbour office, had the gas we needed. J thought he also needed a new regulator and he could probably get that stContinue reading “Friday 29 April. Tobermory to Arisaig 26 nm”

A reasonably early start as we had to get to the station in Oban for the 0857 train for Alice. We were all very sad to see her off as it’s been such good fun being together. Her journey to Troon passes through some beautiful countryside so hopefully that’ll be part of a memorable holiday.Continue reading “Thursday 28 April Oban to Tobermory 25 nm”

A lovely day doing chores. Alice and l went to farm foods whilst Julian endeavoured to fix the clevis pin situation.!! Fortunately there was no wind , so He could put the main sail up to take some weight off the boom and Eventually he was pleased with the result …..but we have ordered aContinue reading “Wednesday 27 April. Oban”

A very cold bright day. It was a mainly peaceful night but Trixie ( our on board windmill) did start whizzing at one point when the wind got up . These days we usually set the anchor drag feature on the little plotter which beeps if you drift too far outside the designated range. HoweverContinue reading “Tuesday 26 April. Loch Spelve to Oban 7nm”

Bit of a lazy day! Woke to grey skies and hardly any wind! Blissful. Had a brunch of bacon Scrambled eggs and beans ( Alice had halloumi and quorn sausage 😳) with pan toasted muffins. Sorted the stern line for the dinghy before putting it on board so that’s another job done. Even sowed aContinue reading “Monday 25 April. Puilladobhrain to Loch Spelve 7 nm ( not far)”