Gigha/Lamlash viz moorings

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Planning a trip around the MoK, does anyone know if the viz moorings are still available at Gigha and Lamlash please?
 

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Call the Gigha hotel to check? They should know. If they have been lifted (which I doubt) then anchoring just to the south is perfectly do able.

As are several other good anchorages around the islands..

No idea about Lamlash moorings..

The only time I’ve anchored in Lamlash I picked up a massive steel hawser that needed the very kind assistance of a RIB full of divers to get off the anchor. Getting it to surface needed many applications of rolling hitches on the genoa winch..
 

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I much prefer anchoring near the monastry on Holy Isle rather than the roly visitors' moorings closer to Lamlash though as always it depends on the wind. As for Gigha, if you can't get an anchor to set in Ardminish Bay you really have a problem, though I would not advise either anchoring or sitting on a mooring there in an easterly.
Anyway, you can't leave your local authority area until Nicola says so.
 

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There is no restrictions to move around Scotland they have been issued as a guideline ,and not the law, as stated by Ms sturgeon , “it would be to hard for the police to regulated this but hopes we all do the right thing”
This is not to create an argument about the merits or moral thinking on the matter so spare me , it is to point out the facts to allow people to make their own decision about sailing in Scotland
 

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The OP appears to be domiciled in Devon. Plymouth is running at 170/100k Covid cases over the last 7 days which would probably place it in Tier 3 of the Scottish system cf Argyll and Bute at 52/100k. Whether a trip north to sail round the MoK is legally proscribed or not, many people would rather he postponed.
We have always been free to make our own decisions on all matters including sailing - acting on these decisions may not always be wise.
 

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There is no restrictions to move around Scotland they have been issued as a guideline ,and not the law, as stated by Ms sturgeon , “it would be to hard for the police to regulated this but hopes we all do the right thing”
This is not to create an argument about the merits or moral thinking on the matter so spare me , it is to point out the facts to allow people to make their own decision about sailing in Scotland
Yup. Some folk will always choose to act irresponsibly unless/until forced to do so. It is the society we live in.
I'm glad you'll be doing the right thing.
 

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Yup. Some folk will always choose to act irresponsibly unless/until forced to do so. It is the society we live in.
I'm glad you'll be doing the right thing.
Who me , conform to the right thing , no way hosey I’m off:ROFLMAO:
As usual the goody too shoes wife is not on board and I have to stay home:(
 
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