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What a difference a day makes! Peaceful night and woke to water as flat as a pancake . Got up and went to find the bakery. Needed to post some cards so found postbox too. On my way back I came across the “Wee picture house” , apparently a famous art nouveau architectural design. NextContinue reading “Wednesday 26 August Campbeltown to Lochranza( Arran) 26 nm”

Storm Francis awakened us at about 4 am. Trixi is so smart that she has an inbuilt sensor to tell her when the wind is too strong to be safe …. and she brakes automatically. Without us having to do anything! The boat was rocking and reeling and the wind was howling. We knew weContinue reading “Tuesday 25 August Campbeltown”

Video won’t upload atm …. will try again if get good WiFi. Also ignore the last post if you got it. ( 22 nd) for some reason the original entry deleted itself! So I’m reloading out of order.

Now we are on a bit of a deadline to get to Troon ( I bought my train ticket yesterday), we have planned our route south, round the Mull of Kintyre and back into the Clyde. Trouble is the tides through the sound of Luing run in the right direction only from 7 am thisContinue reading “Saturday 22 August Oban to Craighouse (Jura)”

I’m not really an early morning person so it does help if the sky above is dawning with an apricot hue in an otherwise clear sky. Not a breath of wind and the feeling of settled weather….. at least for today. The weather forecast is for light winds all day from a north and westContinue reading “Monday 24 August Gigha to Campbeltown 36 nm around the Mull of Kintyre”

Today we woke late. Despite it having been blowing a hooly still ,as we finally went to bed,we had an incredibly peaceful night. as we only had 15 miles to Gigha, we didn’t have to rush which was lovely . Read a bit and looked at forecasts etc. Finally got the anchor up ( withContinue reading “Craig house to Ardminish ( Gigha) 15 nm 23 August”

Another rest day. I went shopping! Lovely. Julian did cleaning on the boat and then we went for a little walk round to the castle which was shut. the wind is still blowing. We helped another boat who was having trouble berthing. Our plans over next few days are …. down to Jura, then GighaContinue reading “Friday 21 August. Oban”