So, whauraboots is this then?

[Sgeir]

 

[longjohnsadler]

Deja vu

Claymore drops his trousers

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Deja vu

North Britain, left hand side, half way up, on the coast.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Re: Deja vu

that will be somewhere in Scotlandshire then.

 

[longjohnsadler]

Re: Deja vu

Claymore gets electrocuted..

 

[Epirb23]

the fault is in the picture.

 

[jerryat]

What do you think about my new cod-piece then....eh? eh? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Kilter]

Hmmm...we've got someone hoyin up over the stern, another doing the Funky Gibbon and they're being overtaken by a wee fellow in a flubber despite deploying the big green sail at the front...could only be scotland! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[claymore]

Weel noo
Ef yer travellin sooth doon ra Soond o' Jura an ye hong a leftie an then anither ye'd be there.

 

[Sgeir]

Hmm. Don't know then.

The only mainland bit where we've anchored in that area was in a gale in a recess between Eilean Dubh and another islet at Carsaig Bay (south side) near Tayvallich. So I suppose it could be the north side anchorage, or else somewhere in the Lochs Caolisport or Sween areas.

 

[claymore]

North side anchorage it is. If you go in and keep to port then you round a rocky headland and there's a tiny bay on the left. Its there. Sandy with a bit of kelp about.

 

[Sgeir]

We sat out a southerly F8 for a couple of days on the south side - laid two anchors, and not much room to swing. Been meaning to spend some more time exploring the mainland anchorages in that area.

 

[claymore]

There's a fish farm there and a multihull most of the time I think.

We had some 'interesting' times on Luing this year - near Pladda - back o' the pond.
Interesting.

 

[Sgeir]

Aye, two bays there - fish farmy stuff and a mooring (IIRC) in the inner, easterly bay, but cleanish sand/weed bottom in the outer one between Eilean Dhubh and Eilean Traighe. Would have been quite a nice spot if it hadn't been howling.

 

[DaveS]

"The Back o' the Pond"... That'll be at Cullipool. Ah, yes. The CCC pilot says something along the lines of "suitable for the adventurous yachtsman".

I spent the night in there about 10 years ago with the previous boat. Great once you're in, but getting in through the southern entrance was, yes, "interesting" is probably the best description. Fortunately the tide was running out, so I could motor gently against it making almost no speed over the ground so there was only the slightest bump when the keel hit a rock; throttle back, ferry glide across a few feet and try again; bump; repeat until finding the invisible gap.

The following day I hit another rock coming out by the supposedly simpler north entrance. And people ask why I now have a plotter and a FLS...

 

[claymore]

You know how in climbing books its common to read the phrase "it was easier to go on than it was to turn back"?

Thats very much how that felt to us!

 

[DaveS]

Quite!