Port Bannatyne

[JumbleDuck]

I'm heading to Port Bannatyne today(Saturday 2st March) for what I expect will be my last visit for some time, to check the boat and bring some things home to work on. If anyone else with a boat there would like me to check anything for them, please PM me.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Blimey. It's a lovely sunny day and the Bute ferry is leaving with just five cars and one ambulance. On the other hand, the coast on the way up and Largs were both very busy - looks like a lot of couples and families taking the chance of a walk in the sunshine by the sea.

 

[FlyingGoose]

Blimey. It's a lovely sunny day and the Bute ferry is leaving with just five cars and one ambulance. On the other hand, the coast on the way up and Largs were both very busy - looks like a lot of couples and families taking the chance of a walk in the sunshine by the sea.

There heading for the hills with all the bog paper and noodles

 

[davidpbo]

We trailed our boat up the Clyde last May and had a lovely 3 weeks including a visit to Port Bannatyne.

There was a small boat there on the pontoon by the walkway bridge with some very unusual rigging made out what looks like steel.



It's the boat in the foreground. Any idea what that is all about? I thought at first it was some mast raising tackle, but it looks like the rig.

 

[Skylark]

I was planning to be on The Clyde this weekend. The event planned for Sunday was cancelled earlier in the week and yesterday my marina closed its office and is discouraging visits to the yard.

Can’t imagine getting down my to-do-before-launch list any time soon. Still far too early to know but the season risks becoming a write-off ?

 

[JumbleDuck]

It's the boat in the foreground. Any idea what that is all about? I thought at first it was some mast raising tackle, but it looks like the rig.

Hello David, She's been there and like that for some time and goes out regularly. Basically a tripod mast supporting a roller reefing luff and a light boom - I don't know what the rig is called but the end result is like a furling lateen sail. The spars seem to be made of aluminium scaffolding poles.

All seems well at Port Bannatyne. Quite a bit of work going on in the yard, and at Largs - in both cases I gather a fair number of people want to get launched soon, some to ride out the medical storm somewhere remote but most to be ready when restrictions are lifted. My boat, I am glad to say, is fine, and the food for two people for a month which I keep on board is now at home where I hope it won't be more use.