KenMcCulloch
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A Big Rock (wherisit)
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AntarcticPilot
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One of the Torran Rocks?
KenMcCulloch
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Could you be more specific
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AntarcticPilot
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I prefer not to get too familiar with those! You're closer than I'd fancy 
A1Sailor
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Could you be more specific
One of the Torran Rocks, under a seagull, beside another two; one of them is awash.
KenMcCulloch
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You are both in the right part of the country but this is a very particular rock.
A1Sailor
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All my own work!
By "right part of the country" do you mean it is in the West Coast of Scotland, or off the Ross of Mull? Has somebody famous run aground on it; or set foot on it?
KenMcCulloch
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All my own work!
By "right part of the country" do you mean it is in the West Coast of Scotland, or off the Ross of Mull? Has somebody famous run aground on it; or set foot on it?
Well you don't want me doing your work for you, do you
? It is certainly within the MoK to Ardnamurchan Point area.
A1Sailor
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Enormously helpful - thanks!
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None of the other 27 photos you have on Photobucket seem to help... The timber ship in the Sound of Mull kind of drove up the beach rather than hitting a rock. 'tisn't Cleit Rock in Cuan Sound either.
Is it Cleit Mhor?
EDIT:
None of the other 27 photos you have on Photobucket seem to help... The timber ship in the Sound of Mull kind of drove up the beach rather than hitting a rock. 'tisn't Cleit Rock in Cuan Sound either.
Is it Cleit Mhor?
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richardsn9
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Is it the one off Duart Castle on Mull which the chief chained his wife to when he became fed up with her?
KenMcCulloch
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Ah, that must make it Dubh Sgeir then?
There are many of that name and as the photograph shows this is more of a Liath than a Dubh. It doesn't have a formal name but is extremely well known.
West Coast
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My comment was agree with A1Sailor, need more clues. I can think of any number of rocks that look like the one in the photo in the region MoK to Ardnamurchan! With, or without, seagulls.......
KenMcCulloch
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My comment was agree with A1Sailor, need more clues. I can think of any number of rocks that look like the one in the photo in the region MoK to Ardnamurchan! With, or without, seagulls.......
OK, it's not one of the Torran Rocks but it's very close and I believe part of the same geological structure. Pilot books specifically draw one's attention to avoiding it.
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Rankin's
A1Sailor
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Well I vote to award the virtual bottle of malt to AntarcticPilot, for his early spot. Ken is just splitting hairs:
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Is it Bogha nan Ramfhear (dr 1.4m) in position 56deg 15.6N 6deg20.24W with a N card. buoy 1c N of the rock?
Can we have a difficult one next time?
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KenMcCulloch
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Well if I were to respond to that with any kind of warmer/cooler type feedback the cat would truly be out of the bag. Rather, the Tinker would be out of his/her Hole. 'Tis the notorious rock at the S end of Eilean Dubh that on has to be sure to avoid when entering Tinker's Hole. It was very foggy.
A1Sailor
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OK. So who was Rankin then?
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It may be named after this bloke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Macquorn_Rankine who is a bit famous and not thick at all. I reckon he knew the Stevenson family who built light houses, as they would all have hung out at the same places; indeed they were all celebrities, how times change. The young Robert Louis Stevenson actually visited the Light House construction when his father was trying to man him up into a life of engineering. It is known that the young Robert used his experiences of this visit in his book "Kidnapped". So, I think the rocks are named after John Rankine through some connection. Perhaps the boy was touched up by the older gent and he wished he was marooned on these rocks, they were a weird lot back then, productive, unfazed, but weird. Its just a guess though."
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A1Sailor
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OK - sound plausible. Thanks.
In the absence of any other suggestion consider yourself correct!
In the absence of any other suggestion consider yourself correct!