Two part question. Identify this boat and location

[BlueChip]

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[jimi]

USS Hunter Sonata just south of Kerrera with a couple of fat git yankee sailors?

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[Sybarite]

A fuel crisis in Holy Loch?

John

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[Sgeir]

Ye Canna Muck about wi\' Rum and Eigg

Jimi's got the boat methinks. Looks a bit like like the SW side of Rum.

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[Sgeir]

Re: Ye Canna Muck about wi\' Rum and Eigg

or is it off Burg on Mull?

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[1114C]

For what it is worth my guess is off Mull too but not sure where - keen to know though

Great photo

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[StugeronSteve]

Looks like Capt. Jack Sparrow, approaching Port Royal.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[Goodge]

Alex Thomson in the Vendee wishing he'd fixed that hole in the coach roof a little earlier.

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[jfm]

Dont know location, W Scotland could be. Or South Wales. Total wild guess, boat is an Yngling, sail number GBR1, the one sailed competitively by Nicole Johnson, Jane Norris and Jo Line?

 

[claymore]

Could be west coast of Mull - maybe down Bunessan way?

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[sailorman]

WELL THE RIG SEEMS TO WORK, LETS SAVE-UP & BUY THE HULL .

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[BlueChip]

Well done - it was somewhere round the NW tip of Mull.
We were sailing in a friends boat from Tobermory to Iona in the summer and there was a race with maybe 50 yachts out of Tobermory going anticlockwise around Mull.
I took quite a few photos and if anyone knows who organised this race I would be happy to send them copies

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[GeoffW]

Sunsail use a similar model in the Solent.

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[Magic_Sailor]

Das (sailing) Boot! .nm

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[jfm]

Protest!

Hang on, you only answered half your own question. What boat was it? Yngling?

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[Sgeir]

Sure it was NW Mull? The "somewhere" is a bit worrying. Are you the navperson?

Still think it's Burg. And Claymore agrees - it's the big headland opposite Bunessan.

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[TLOM]

You were probably watching the Round Mull Race organised by Oban Sailing Club - www.obansailingclub.org.

The boat is an H-boat - this one has a red hull! You'll find GBR1 listed in the results list on the web site.

Entry forms for 2005 available online. Send me a PM if you want more info.

TLoM

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[claymore]

Hmm
I tried to make it fit with the headlands behind Gometra and Ulva but I think there is more evidence of habitation around there and the darker land to the left doesn't fit there - also the outcrop running out from the shore would seem to suggest (from my ailing memory) that area above the Ross of Mull and due East(?) of Staffa

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[claymore]

Oh well - everyone knew it was an H boat, pretty obvious really - we were concentrating on the location - so go on then - which bit of Mull?

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[Sgeir]

I think we're on to something here. There's a long bit of coastline from the farm at the foot of the NW side of Ben More (is it Cruban - need to check the OS), and the white cottage on the SW side of Burg. I think it looks awfie like that area, near McKinnon's cave, or is it McCulloch's tree (the old petrified one) - or both.

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