JumbleDuck
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Spend three days there in F6 - 8 and continuous heavy rain a few years ago. Nice spot.
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Kelpie
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Moidart is magical. Riska itself was a great place to explore with my wee boy. And in the evening went out in the dinghy to drift on the tide. Got within a few feet of some otters who never heard me coming. It was so still that you could them crunching on crab shells before you saw them.
RJJ
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Downwind in F5 with a decent swell to surf on. Enough power to catch a wave for a ten second ride...averaging double-digit knots SOG...but not scary.
...and inexhaustible energy so that I can handsteer for as long as it lasts, day or night.
...and inexhaustible energy so that I can handsteer for as long as it lasts, day or night.
maggie2
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dropping anhcor in one tree bay in the peleponese greece
JumbleDuck
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We had a lovely evening there, just like you describe with with fewer otters and more illegal visits to the castle.
Kelpie
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Did you manage to get in? I'm pretty skinny but the gap under the gate is not *quite* big enough...
JumbleDuck
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My crew assures me that we didn't go in, so it probably wasn't as illegal as I thought.
After three days of gales there - and no information from the outside world - we stuck our noses out and went across to Muck for a most uncomfortable night. So uncomfortable, in fact, that at 4am I snapped, went across to Eigg under sail and fell asleep again. I didn't wake the crew, who was most puzzled by the morning view from the forecabin window. "I don't remember a castle!"
Ah, happy memories. I had the second best burger I have ever eaten on Eigg for lunch. (In case anyone cares, the best burgers I know are at the Tafern Dwynant, in Escairceiliog near Machynlleth.)
Metabarca
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Arriving in the late afternoon at my favourite bay in Dalmatia, loud with crickets, and finding no-one else there! Dropping anchor and seeing it bite 7 metres down, while the fish swim around the chain. Then a swim, a glass of friulano and contemplation of the horizon.
ctva
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Eh? We always go for a wander round and in the castle, think there was a sign but not sure...
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Close reaching at night, F3, warm dark night, no clouds, sailing by a star, as the naked, buxom wench dances on the foredeck. Reality wave slap in the face and it's beating to windward in the North Sea, rain, reduced visibility, with a short angry chop and 8 hours until daylight.
My best crusing experience was my first transatlantic. Calm, sails down, gentle swell but sea like glass with no ripples, night time and every star in the firmament reflected in the sea, quite a magical moment.
My best crusing experience was my first transatlantic. Calm, sails down, gentle swell but sea like glass with no ripples, night time and every star in the firmament reflected in the sea, quite a magical moment.
Quandary
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I share the appreciation of Loch Moidart, particularly last year when we were keeping to ourselves, The keep is indeed gated and not many signs of intrusion when you peer down in to it, the gillies path along the cliffs is a very pleasant work out too, but for 2020 the best moment was approaching Ardnamurchan from Moidart surfing in the sunshine on a very fast broad reach after a week of motoring nearly everywhere.