BLUEMOMENT

Craobh used to be a secluded anchorage in a pristine bay, now it's a marina and you can't anchor. That's a retrograde step.

Essential services in an anchorage are 0, that's why you go anchor there.

Essential services in a marina vary, many of the ones you list are at best handy to have.

I never gave it a second thought with the Centaur (3' draught) but I'll have to pay more attention in Seminole (5' 4" draught). We usually got there towards high tide, having caught the flood up the Sound of Mull. Or left through there at about high tide, to catch the ebb down the Sound of Mull.

Happy new boat.

Don't worry about getting a berth in Tarbert, they will have anyone, I know this

Mum is downsising and today I was sent home with a lightly used Freiberger Drum sextant. It looks like the first one in this article: https://sextantbook.com/category/freiberger-sextants/ It is in a wooden box with a manual an some sighting notes. I have had a look through it but have never taken a ...

I'll raise a glass to that, slainte.

Happy new year folks.

The canal times are published online but vary according to season, it depends when you are transiting. In high season it's something like 09:00 to 17:00 but they shorten the hours and stop Sundays first then the whole weekend. From Tarbert if you leave @ 07:00 you may get in when they open, it's abu...

The plans I saw looked promising.

The bod showing me the plans seemed to think it would happen soon.

Continuity isn't their strong point. Just because the bay came after Corryvrechan and before George Orwell's place may not place it. Having said that there is bay just north of there which looks promising on Google maps. I thought it may be the bay, that I can't remember the name of, which is sort o...

Some knob was on R4 putting the case that we should ignore the Scots and stick with BST. They don't seem to realise that all Europe has daylight saving time and it's not just Scottish crofters to blame. I somtimes dispair for my fellow countymen. Please don't get independence and leave us Northerner...

claymore wrote:One post on the twatfaetroon thread and he gets it shut down

About bloody time too.

'appen they are public servants, and serve the public?

Naaaa, can't see that.

Me and Ash had to make a minor course adjustment on Monday morning as we exited Kip heading for Toward. I had a feeling they could be about as I saw a couple of boats heading down river through the murk as I came back from dropping the kids off at the pool.

You have probably considered an Eclipse 38 already?

wully wrote:

claymore wrote:We cycled through there a couple of weeks ago - it wisnae tha' bad.

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Did ye nae get awfae wet?

I tried to teach him how to keep dry, but the lesson didn't go well.