Holiday Images + Puilladobhrain - Identify the Wrecked Boat

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We did a charter holiday on the West Coast of Scotland last week.

Route was: Croabh Haven->Play in Correvreckan->Fairy Isles->Biggars Gut/Port Lunni->Tayvallich->MacCormaig Isles->Craighouse->Gigha->Easdale->Puilladobhrain->Eilean Dubh->G of Correvreckan->Croabh Haven.

On the off chance that someone is interested, there are some images here:

http://fattie.freehostia.com/Scotland_April_2010

More importantly we noticed the wrecked boat in the SW corner. I'm pretty sure it was there last time we visited 5 years ago.


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Ronald Faux in "The West" says he was there when a vessel hit the rock in a similar location so it may be the same boat:

"the bad rock at the southern end of the pool was more emphatically marked, the first time I sailed in here, by a fishing boat that had stranded upon it. Now those remains had drifted off into the reef to the West." (Published '82).

Can anyone reliably identify this wreck and explain what happened to it?
 
Last time i was there 3/4 years ago we lifted a snag off the bottom that another boat had caught its anchor in.
In the end we had to cut the chain. Few weeks later a fishing boat came in and lifted the snag, (snag was the mooring of the motor boat that was beached on the shingle on the island in the entrance).
In the snag there was 5 anchors, complete with chain, a motor bike, the rope riser was 3 1/2" thick, the riser chain and the chain that the anchors went into was easily 30mm diameter, onto two fisherman style anchors that were about 6 feet long and 4/5 feet accross.
We did mark the snag but the local fishermen that come out of the bay cut the bouy off the snag.
 
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The East coast saltings are full of boats like that - somehow it seems OK to let a wooden hulk end it's days that way and, strangely, it is not unattractive - good job we don't allow cars to be dumped by the road and left there for years.
 
Old fishing boat- there are several round the Mull coast, decommisioned and abandoned, including the much-photographed trio just north of Salen.
 
Double your money & identify this one too

From the 1970's. Can't remember exactly when. Scanned slides, hence poor quality and muck on them. Outside the Puilladobhrain anchorage. (Coincidentally I have a couple of shots of your one too - I think they are exactly the same as yours in fact.)

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Amulet said:
From the 1970's. Can't remember exactly when. Scanned slides, hence poor quality and muck on them. Outside the Puilladobhrain anchorage. (Coincidentally I have a couple of shots of your one too - I think they are exactly the same as yours in fact.)
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Thanks for posting those, really interesting.
 
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