My View. Let's See Yours

[john_morris_uk]

It was a James that conducted our Day Skipper Practical, the night exercise was in really quite bad conditions going up Loch Long, vis was down to a few hundred meters and keeping to the channel and out of the restricted zone while being watched by the patrol boat certainly kept us on our toes. The other candidate took us there just as it was getting dark and I took us back. To my great relief the transits and marks we had plotted before the voyage all worked out quite well. Then we got back to Helensburgh and the Navy had turned off some of the navigation buoys and marks, made an interesting last few minutes of the trip.
Next day we did the final full exercise which was going to be a circumnavigation of the Isle of Bute but due to the weather James told us to cut it short and just go to the narrows and then back to Rothsey, it had got rough enough from the start of storm Amy that Rothsey was shut. Still we came back at 22knots in a 1m following sea, that little boat is quite nice to helm, we finished up the day with ferry gliding around the marina which was fun and quite different to how my own boat handles.

All noted and v interesting. I don’t want to hijack the thread but I’m in Helensburgh this Friday/Saturday. I’m on the train up to Glasgow tomorrow morning. Old sailing area for me. We kept our boat on a mooring off Rhu for a few years. We used to haul out at Silvers in Risneath.

Back to photos I guess.

 

[Alicatt]

All noted and v interesting. I don’t want to hijack the thread but I’m in Helensburgh this Friday/Saturday. I’m on the train up to Glasgow tomorrow morning. Old sailing area for me. We kept our boat on a mooring off Rhu for a few years. We used to haul out at Silvers in Risneath.

Back to photos I guess.

Last on this! We are in Helensburgh on Sat, an old sailing buddy and ourselves are going to a ceilidh

 

[john_morris_uk]

Last on this! We are in Helensburgh on Sat, an old sailing buddy and ourselves are going to a ceilidh

I’ll hopefully be finishing off the exams (three candidates YM Power) and catching a train back into Glasgow early/mid afternoon on Saturday.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Our view today.

 

[billskip]

Are you visiting Riggy?

 

[Bouba]

Our view today. View attachment 201126

Where is it ?

 

[Alicatt]

James Watt Dock from the far side

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Where is it ?

That’s Africa in the haze.

 

[Bouba]

That’s Africa in the haze.

It looks like the south of France...but you need really good eyesight to see Africa

 

[Zing]

It looks like the south of France...but you need really good eyesight to see Africa

Just like the SoF, except it's dark, cold, grey , windy and probably raining if only we could could define mist and drizzle as rain.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

It looks like the south of France...but you need really good eyesight to see Africa

It does look pretty similar. But it’s Spain. Costa del Sol, hence the view of Africa.

 

[Zing]

Yesterday, Stromboli at sunset

 

[Alicatt]

 

[Bouba]

View attachment 201158

That looks like the Medway

 

[Alicatt]

That looks like the Medway

As many sunken boats?

There used to be a big shipyard there where many of my forefathers worked

 

[SaltIre]

As many sunken boats?

There used to be a big shipyard there where many of my forefathers worked
View attachment 201161

This link gives a better image, and more maps/images you can play with...
Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Today, Gibraltar at sunset. Its there in the cloud and sun somwhere.

 

[Alicatt]

View attachment 201166
This link gives a better image, and more maps/images you can play with...
Side by side georeferenced maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

Thanks @SaltIre I use some of those old maps going over what has changed in the area
Dumbarton was where I was born.
Going back to 1735 my grt....great grandfather was an engineer at Denny's before it became Denny & Bros Shipyard, my father was a pattern maker there and my uncle was a marine architect specialising in engines and gearboxes
Today I was showing my wife around the area and had a lovely walk along the river and over the bridge to Levengrove Park.
Makes a change from last night at a ceilidh in Helensburgh which was fun in a different way
Renovations to the house are on hold so we are off sightseeing and then back to Belgium on Tuesday.
The Leven at Dumbarton as it used to be

 

[Alicatt]

In the above picture that is where the Cutty Sark was built and then completed at Denny's just across the water. Behind Denny's during WW2 was the Blackburn Aircraft Factory, they built the majority of the Short Sunderland Flying Boats there

 

[capnsensible]

Today, Gibraltar at sunset. Its there in the cloud and sun somwhere.
View attachment 201175

On a clear day, generally westerly winds, from up near Marbella you can see Gib and Jebel Musa on the south side of the Straits. The famed Pillars of Hercules.