Round Britain

[penfold]

Not any more there isn't. The scheduled service ended last year (or maybe the year before). You can still book a special charter flight ... at a price ...

He's still flying about regularly, so business must be good. If you used that service you could leave your boat pretty much anywhere there's sheltered water to land on!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Not any more there isn't. The scheduled service ended last year (or maybe the year before). You can still book a special charter flight ... at a price ...

Didn't realizr it was no longer a scheduled flight - we see the sea-planes going over practically every time we're put on the Clyde. I've no doubt it was never cheap!

 

[westhinder]

The signs and website for Mallaig are emphatic that no discount is given for longer stays; you're on the daily rate no matter how long you stay. That's £2.40 per metre per day, which for an eight metre boat for six months works out at a cool (and numerologically pleasing) £3,456.

I would never leave my boat for a longer period unattended at the pontoons in Mallaig. Strong northerly winds make the pontoons very unconfortable, even to the point of being untenable. In all fairness I have to add that the harbourmaster warns you to seek shelter elsewhere when a northerly blow is on the way.

 

[JumbleDuck]

He's still flying about regularly, so business must be good. If you used that service you could leave your boat pretty much anywhere there's sheltered water to land on!

Didn't realizr it was no longer a scheduled flight - we see the sea-planes going over practically every time we're put on the Clyde. I've no doubt it was never cheap!

Yes, both, I see a seaplane over Bute quite regularly. Which puzzles me a bit, because the only regular tour listed by Loch Lomond Seaplanes these days is over Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (http://www.lochlomondseaplanes.com/information/your-loch-lomond-tour-map.html) and doesn't go near the Clyde at all. I don't think there is another operator, so perhaps they are getting a lot of charter work to the West Coast.

From memory, a single to or from Oban was £125 or so. That didn't seem ridiculously excessive to me, and I rather fancied doing it by Waverley in one direction and Cessna in the other.