Spot The Ferry competition

I don't take it personally, sumph, sumph, other than to remind you (as appeared recently in another thread) that it is a statistical fact that every time somebody emigrates from Scotland to England, the average intelligence of bopth countries actually improves.

<hr width=100% size=1>My father was born in Govan. They had a ferry at the bottom of the garden.
 
You were close Claymore - got the first part right. It's a Westerly Fulmar, “Santa Vey”, Cumbrae NWSTC, when I was doing my Day Skipper in 1999. Started from Largs, calling at Millport, Loch Ranza, Campbeltown, Ballycastle, Rathlin, Ailsa Craig, Troon, Lamlash, Rothesay, and back to Largs. 201 miles and one overnight - great.

<hr width=100% size=1>My father was born in Govan. They had a ferry at the bottom of the garden.
 
Storm bound for 3 months (OK days but it felt like months) there a few years ago still have nightmares about it. My 1st mate tells me it's where gypsies go to learn to be untidy?? Great in the sunshine.

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I wish I'd been born rich instead of good looking ?
 
Know how you feel when you've had a bad experience - Craighouse is my nightmare, anchored there (yet again) while a gale howled. We managed to drag about 200 mteres over the kelp - and never heard the chain move either. Fortunately I'd put the GPS alarm on, otherwise we'd have hit the rocks. It took almost hour to clear the kelp off the anchor, and I swear some it was longer than the boat. Weighed a ton. I've narrowed down the GPS alarm distance subsequently. Also make more use of the fisherman's anchor these days.

Always enjoyed Rathlin however, despite being a bugger with the tides. Two years ago we turned north after Rue Point (I think), and spent over an hour battling against the tide. Sails + engine! So, last Easter I thought I'd be smart and time it to the tides to sail west past Ballycastle, then turn north and catch the current into Church Bay.

The best laid plans etc.. It would have been fine apart from the two walls of water about 1.5 to 2m high. The first one wasn't too bad, but the second one just spun us round. The sails were in tight, and of course as soon as they were side on the wind... Yet within minutes of turning north we were in a totally calm water. Strange place.

Greta music, singing and craic at McCuaig's though. Also, an unusually interesting folk museum. Poor people there were wiped out twice within about 100 years. First time was the gallant Sir Francis Drake, second time a Scots thug with an unfortunate surname.

<hr width=100% size=1>My father was born in Govan. They had a ferry at the bottom of the garden.
 
Craighouse

Go alongside the pier on the village side facing out. There's little rise and fall of the tide. We've sat out a gale happily there - the worst wind direction is NW ish and it seldom gets up enough of a fetch to make it untenable. Sat for hours watching people looking very uncomfortable on moorings. You'd need a plank - if you don't carry one there is a council yard by the pier where you'd find one. There is water there too.

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