KTL progress report

[dylanwinter]

Golspie http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=594

Brora http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=589

Helmsdale http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=576

Dunbeath http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=575

Wick http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=583

There's also Lybster http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=579

and JOG http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=537

There are a few others some look a bit interesting / difficult to get into http://www.ports.org.uk/area.asp?area=54

I would have thought you would have been using that site a lot to seek out all the known harbours along the way to explore. and I'm sure in due course you will explore them all.

excellent

someof those look wonderful


as I have newgees on board I thought that the first day we should have a shortish sail and a place with a walk on pontoon so that the young people can get used to life aboard. They can dissapear to a bar to get away from us

D

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[Kelpie]

Cromarty sounds like a good bet for a first short sail:
http://www.cromartyharbour.org/

It's a fantastic little place to walk around too.

 

[ProDave]

Cromarty sounds like a good bet for a first short sail:
http://www.cromartyharbour.org/

It's a fantastic little place to walk around too.

Not much room in the harbour, you will have to raft up with someone. Great pub right by the harbour.

That site is a bit out of date, there's now a pontoon down the middle of the harbour. Better pictures here http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=590

Balintore is another possibility, but again talk to hte harbourmaster first, you will probably have to raft up again. Not many of these harbours keep spare "visitor berths" http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=586

 

[Seven Spades]

Goodness me, what do you do if you have got a keel?

 

[Searush]

Goodness me, what do you do if you have got a keel?

Stay down south where it is safe & you don't need to lean on walls or fall over.

 

[Seven Spades]

Stay down south where it is safe & you don't need to lean on walls or fall over.

You needn't start that, you are on trouble now. Once Dylan has posted his videos you won't be able to keep anything secret anymore. Soon Dylan will be able to charge resorts for him to visit them! After all it works for the Clipper Race.

 

[Searush]

You needn't start that, you are on trouble now. Once Dylan has posted his videos you won't be able to keep anything secret anymore. Soon Dylan will be able to charge resorts for him to visit them! After all it works for the Clipper Race.

Fine, come & visit us in N Wales where most harbours dry out, sandbanks move regularly & are seldom surveyed accurately & a wall to lean on when the 36' tide ebbs is a luxury. There are many good reason why I think twin keels are the bee's knees for my chosen cruising area.

On the other hand, you'll be fine on the Scottish Western Island's coast where the waters are generally deeper, tides are around 10' and the hazards are rocks which are mostly charted & move somewhat slower.

 

[dylanwinter]

not going to make inverness

currentkly against the wall in stone-haven

hoping I can get to Peterhead thursday

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/harbour-wall/

 

[steve123]

Unfortunately the pool's no open until Saturday: http://www.stonehavenopenairpool.co.uk/

 

[Gordonmc]

Unfortunately the pool's no open until Saturday: http://www.stonehavenopenairpool.co.uk/

A good brisk walk up to Dunotter Castle will blow the cobwebs away, though.

 

[ProDave]

not going to make inverness

currentkly against the wall in stone-haven

hoping I can get to Peterhead thursday

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/harbour-wall/

That's a shame.

The wind seems stuck in the East for the next few days, so had you made it, you would have had a following wind along the Moray coast. It's more often a SW wind up here.

 

[dgadee]

not going to make inverness

currentkly against the wall in stone-haven

hoping I can get to Peterhead thursday

D

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/harbour-wall/

I thought I had caught up with you when I saw the lonely looking boat in Granton. Hopefully the easterlies will be gone when I get underway again.

 

[ProDave]

How far did you get Dylan? are you still on the move?

 

[dylanwinter]

just off aberdeen

How far did you get Dylan? are you still on the move?

pretty roly poly at the moment

one sick - three on sturgeron

D

 

[KenMcCulloch]

On the bright side, the tide will be with you soon, you should be in Peterheid in time for dinner.

 

[Gordonmc]

On the bright side, the tide will be with you soon, you should be in Peterheid in time for dinner.

A chippie tea from Zanre's will sort out that dickie tummy.
Were the charts of any use, Dylan?

 

[Georgio]

Hey Dylan,
How's my old anchor doing, have you had a chance to use it?

 

[dylanwinter]

excellent

A chippie tea from Zanre's will sort out that dickie tummy.
Were the charts of any use, Dylan?

I think we have used two of them so far

thanks you very much

just to say only one crew member suffering with the sickness

three of us on Stugeron

that three day easterly left quite a swell

D

 

[dylanwinter]

anchor is lashed to the pulpit sitting on a tesco's doormat

we used it twice in Chichester Harbour

a perfect match for the boat I think

D

 

[SimbaDog]

Are you using a value £1 doormat?