Summer Sailing on the West Coast

[claymore]

Today’s photo…

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You could have got a triple word score if you'd gone north a couple of squares. ?

 

[ctva]

You could have got a triple word score if you'd gone north a couple of squares. ?

I’ll tell the wife, but you’ll need to duck…

 

[ctva]

Summer has returned. View from the cockpit…

 

[ctva]

A lovely sail across to Loch Stockinish, no one else here so the YBW burgee is redundant. Dolphins as we left Dunvegan and the sky looking like a good sunset later.

 

[Kelpie]

A lovely sail across to Loch Stockinish, no one else here so the YBW burgee is redundant. Dolphins as we left Dunvegan and the sky looking like a good sunset later.
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Glad you made it over the Minch, enjoy!

 

[zoidberg]

We like playing a game called "How many signs saying who won the Battle of the Boyne can you find in the castle?" I think we got to twelve. Oddly enough, none of them say "The side supported by the Pope".

Is this political? Off wi' his head!

 

[awol]

Is this political? Off wi' his head!

Political? Not at all! It's obviously an ecumenical matter ..........

 

[ctva]

… ecumenica….

Far to big a word for here.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Is this political? Off wi' his head!

Not at all. Just suggesting an interesting game to play when visiting a popular Northern Irish marina by boat.

 

[zoidberg]

As the bottle of merlot is near-empty, and there's no excommunication for 'thread drift' yet, I'd chust like to remind Honourable Tcheuchters of what they're missiing....

And no midges....

 

[zoidberg]

Not at all. Just suggesting an interesting game to play when visiting a popular Northern Irish marina by boat.

My maternal grandfather, I'm told, was notorious for being 'the first to jump through the Lambeg Drum' - frequently. They have long memories in those parts, and I don't go within 100 miles of Carrickfergus.

 

[ctva]

As the bottle of merlot is near-empty, and there's no excommunication for 'thread drift' yet, I'd chust like to remind Honourable Tcheuchters of what they're missiing....

And no midges....

Maybe nae midges but that anchorage looks crowed! Two boats… ?

 

[zoidberg]

Och aye, but they're the local equivalent o' MacBraynes, and go home at 4 o'clock.

 

[penfold]

Sailed round the sugar boat today, none of these exotic locales for me. The firth was deserted for some reason; was it something I said?

 

[awol]

Sailed round the sugar boat today, none of these exotic locales for me. The firth was deserted for some reason; was it something I said?

No, just the dreich weather and sub-zero temperatures. It is nearly the end of June, after all.

 

[penfold]

It was 20C and sunny spells, I was in shorts and t-shirt?

 

[awol]

It was 20C and sunny spells, I was in shorts and t-shirt?

Shhhhhh!

 

[Iliade]

As the bottle of merlot is near-empty, and there's no excommunication for 'thread drift' yet, I'd chust like to remind Honourable Tcheuchters of what they're missiing....
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And no midges....

No, no no! Tell them about the unbelievably treacherous crossing strewn with unmarked pots and shipwrecks, the five seasons in every day (in particular the 11:00 snowstorm.) the killer puffins, sandflies, hidden rocks, outrageous anchoring fees and quarantine hospitals.

 

[penfold]

Sorry! Ahem, I was wearing two guernseys and was still getting windchill. The dog complained of hunger.

 

[awol]

No, no no! Tell them about the unbelievably treacherous crossing strewn with unmarked pots and shipwrecks, the five seasons in every day (in particular the 11:00 snowstorm.) the killer puffins, sandflies, hidden rocks, outrageous anchoring fees and quarantine hospitals.

A post after my own heart! I do not understand the desire to encourage others to enter one's own pleasure spots and spoil what makes them good.

Sorry! Ahem, I was wearing two guernseys and was still getting windchill. The dog complained of hunger.

That's much better.