Archive For June, 2012
A still morning saw us leaving Lochinver for Kinlochbervie at 09:00. We were catching the tide up and around the The Point of Stoer and the famous ‘Old man of Stoer’ sea-stack. The forecast was again NE F5/6 but with no sign of it then. As we sailed up towards Stoerhead the wind picked up […]
The wind is howling outside and has been blowing all night we are staying in Lochinver today (Friday) and plan to leave for Kinlochbervie tomorrow. Weather calming down to F4/5 NE. Lochinver pontoons – the sun just coming out after the blow We had breakfast in the Lochinver Seamans Mission – a brand new building […]
We left Ullapool in bright sunshine and a flat calm which of course meant that we motored for the first hour. Once out into the Summer Isles – which are a picturesque group of islands just outside of loch Broom – the wind picked up and we sailed for an hour before the wind dropped […]
A day off in Ullapool to do boat jobs and buy supplies for the trip over the top to Orkany. Joe spent most of the morning repairing the spray-hood which has started to come apart. The stitching has rotted in multiple places. A trip ashore resulted in new supplies plus a chance to visit a […]
Left Aultbea in Loch Ewe at 10:00 – sailed off the mooring in light winds towards the entrance which we were told would be lumpy. It was. On leaving we had a chance to look at some of the World War 2 buildings which remain around the edge of Loch Ewe. Aultbea in Loch Ewe […]
Set off for Loch Ewe some 30 nm up the coast and the next sealoch north. We managed to refill our water tanks before we left from Flowedale as the pontoons there have both electricity and water. Loch Gairloch the evening before The plan was to get going before the weather picked up as the […]
Left Portree in light winds after the early morning gusts had subsided. NE F4 to 5 with F6 later the forecast. The plan was to get across to Loch Gairloch, 25 nm to the NE, before the F6 came in. Sailed off the mooring and out into the Sound of Raasey. We then tacked up […]
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