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1. Is the nearest Distillery?
2. Is it?
2. Is it?
Where...
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Charlotte Anne
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Craighouse, Jura? From West Loch Tarbet...
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Answer to 1.
The answer to "which is the nearest Distillery" depends whether you plan to go ashore immediately and walk - or sail, then go ashore.
Let's go sailing, shall we?
The answer to "which is the nearest Distillery" depends whether you plan to go ashore immediately and walk - or sail, then go ashore.
Let's go sailing, shall we?
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I think it's Puilladobhrain going by the wee hillock just off the starboard bow and the cairn on the big hill behind the hillock.
Oban Distillery by Sea but it could be one on Mull.
Oban Distillery by Sea but it could be one on Mull.
Lakesailor
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That's not a very nice way to describe him.
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My mate Duncan isn't a hillock! And it does look a bit like the hill to the north of Puilladobhrain but it ain't there.
Nearest Distillery is on Islay - but which one?
nevis
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1. Is the nearest Distillery?
2. Is it?
Talisker
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Not Talisker.
Charlotte Anne was almost right with "Craighouse" and "West Loch Tarbert", although she probably meant Loch Tarbert. (West Loch Tarbert is to the west of Tarbert on the mainland on the Kintyre Peninsula).
The picture was taken near the head of Loch Tarbert, on the west coast of the island of Jura - Loch Tarbert, Jura.
(Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
We entered near the top of the tide along the course of the red line, carefully with a lookout(!) and the picture heading north-east at the tip of the "entry line".
Later we anchored at the red dot just out of the stream - which ebbed quite strongly south-east and revealed some interesting rocks! We didn't use an Ordnance Survey Map lol...
The nearest distillery is a bit of a hike to Craighouse - but much better to sail to here:
Charlotte Anne was almost right with "Craighouse" and "West Loch Tarbert", although she probably meant Loch Tarbert. (West Loch Tarbert is to the west of Tarbert on the mainland on the Kintyre Peninsula).
The picture was taken near the head of Loch Tarbert, on the west coast of the island of Jura - Loch Tarbert, Jura.
(Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
We entered near the top of the tide along the course of the red line, carefully with a lookout(!) and the picture heading north-east at the tip of the "entry line".
Later we anchored at the red dot just out of the stream - which ebbed quite strongly south-east and revealed some interesting rocks! We didn't use an Ordnance Survey Map lol...
The nearest distillery is a bit of a hike to Craighouse - but much better to sail to here:
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Two more pics:
Looking west back towards "the narrows", before turning to port to head north. There is a shoal off the port quarter which is best avoided!
Looking south, once anchored
What was the point of doing it? Well none! Why do folk climb mountains..?
I simply wanted to follow "Blondie's Transits" described in the Pilot Book, which are well described.
(There is a "pool" to the north east off the map, which we did go up to then came back)
Looking west back towards "the narrows", before turning to port to head north. There is a shoal off the port quarter which is best avoided!
Looking south, once anchored
What was the point of doing it? Well none! Why do folk climb mountains..?
I simply wanted to follow "Blondie's Transits" described in the Pilot Book, which are well described.
(There is a "pool" to the north east off the map, which we did go up to then came back)
dunedin
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RESPECT !
We took the dinghy into the narrows at about half tide under oars, and got only part way along your red line route before we bailed out and tried to get back out. Lots of vicious side currents pulling us over shallow rocks, and took a while at full throttle to make any progress back against the flood tide (I guess ebb would be worse).
Marked in logbook "NEVER EVER EVER ..... EVER" take the yacht in there
But with 2m draft and slim-ish fin keel that would not like knocks I appreciate my rock-hopping appetite is less than others
We took the dinghy into the narrows at about half tide under oars, and got only part way along your red line route before we bailed out and tried to get back out. Lots of vicious side currents pulling us over shallow rocks, and took a while at full throttle to make any progress back against the flood tide (I guess ebb would be worse).
Marked in logbook "NEVER EVER EVER ..... EVER" take the yacht in there
But with 2m draft and slim-ish fin keel that would not like knocks I appreciate my rock-hopping appetite is less than others
A1Sailor
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RESPECT !
We took the dinghy into the narrows at about half tide under oars, and got only part way along your red line route before we bailed out and tried to get back out. Lots of vicious side currents pulling us over shallow rocks, and took a while at full throttle to make any progress back against the flood tide (I guess ebb would be worse).
Marked in logbook "NEVER EVER EVER ..... EVER" take the yacht in there
But with 2m draft and slim-ish fin keel that would not like knocks I appreciate my rock-hopping appetite is less than others
It was a pretty straightforward piece of pilotage, which in retrospect probably wasn't a good idea; but we didn't see (feel!) any rocks and it was a day not to be missed - or ever repeated... It took a couple of hours of equally careful pilotage to escape out to the open sea the next day!
Here's one last image - taken from the centre point in the narrows looking southwards down the shallow inlet which runs south. Anybody contemplating doing it can give me a shout!
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