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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 2:59 pm 
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Looking at the possibility of basing the boat at Linnhe Marina in Shuna Sound, next season. Any reports of experience would be welcome.

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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:33 pm 
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Ghillie and Shard, maybe some others, have been there for a while. It can be a bit bumpy in a northeast wind, otherwise good shelter. Paul, who runs the moorings, is very friendly and attentive and provides a water taxi service until about 5:00pm each day. After that time, if you don't wish to use your dinghy, Linnhe Marine's boat(s) are available for your use.

New facilities are being built, but there is presently a shower available and there is a toilet about 150 yards away. I like the place, Paul and his son Nick couldn't be better. In terms of the exposure to the northeast, if it's a bit rough you can always sail round and anchor at Airds Bay, a south facing bay about a couple of miles to the south. We've been there several years and don't plan to move, but there is not much in the way of spare capacity. If you're interested, give Paul a ring.


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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:11 pm 
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Silkie spent her first season with me there and the exposure to the northeast didn't suit my novice sensibilities but I dare say I could cope now and it is a pretty reasonable price.

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:54 pm 
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I would fully endorse Shard's comments. Paul and Nick are exceptionally helpful and cheerful. The moorings too are good. During the May storm last year, no boats parted their moorings, but quite a number did so elsewhere on the west coast.


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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:51 pm 
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Thanks, Shuna Sound it will be then.

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 11:44 pm 
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Ghillie wrote:
During the May storm last year, no boats parted their moorings, but quite a number did so elsewhere on the west coast.

Don't you think that might have been good fortune because of the direction of that particular storm?


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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:10 am 
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Green Boat wrote:
Thanks, Shuna Sound it will be then.

It's Dallens Bay. Shuna Sound is at the other Shuna next to Luing.


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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:35 am 
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My mistake, it must have been the phrase 'Sound of Shuna' on the chart that confused me :?

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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:34 pm 
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Green Boat wrote:
My mistake, it must have been the phrase 'Sound of Shuna' on the chart that confused me :?


I keep on telling her, but you know what it's like......



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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:16 am 
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Alan_D wrote:
Ghillie wrote:
During the May storm last year, no boats parted their moorings, but quite a number did so elsewhere on the west coast.

Don't you think that might have been good fortune because of the direction of that particular storm?


answer ... yes, but on the other hand no.


My recollection of the storms passing through central Scotland is that the strongest winds have been from the SWest/West or so. Had the fetch into Linnhe Marine been from the southwest instead of NNE then I think that the moorings as moorings might in general be untenable.


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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 7:01 pm 
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Ghillie wrote:
My recollection of the storms passing through central Scotland is that the strongest winds have been from the SWest/West or so. Had the fetch into Linnhe Marine been from the southwest instead of NNE then I think that the moorings as moorings might in general be untenable.

I have never been there in a gale but would have thought the shelter from that quarter pretty good. All the wee islands and stuff at the N end of Lismore will surely break seas from the SW and then the very shoal S end of The Sound of Shuna (as I am teaching myself to call it) will take care of what's left, surely? Admittedly there's not much shelter from the wind from that direction but so long as the gear is adequate, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. I once spent a night on a mooring, in a full SW gale, at Armadale in the Sound of Sleat. Lively but perfectly tolerable. Given the choice of there or Dallens bay I know which I would choose.

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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:39 pm 
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Oops.

I'm sorry, I didn't really convey what I meant to say....an embarrassment on a forum full of brilliant communicators! I was trying to craft a clever reply to the notion that it was fortuitous that the storm wind was from the southwest at Dallens Bay last May (2011).

Your comments cannot be faulted, indeed I too have been moored at Armadale in strong south-westerlies and would rather have been, as you note, in Dallens Bay from a wave point of view.

All I was trying to say was that in Dallens Bay, if it were to be as wavy at the moorings as it is with a NE wind, when South-Westerlies are blowing.....hmm bad start, try again.......the northerly winds create waves in Loch Linnhe which go straight into Dallens Bay (and even amplify?) when they reach the moorings. The waves from the South-Westerlies don't make it into the bay at all...(for your reasons). So if you either turned the wind rose through 180 degrees, or turned the whole of Loch Linnhe and its bays and islands through 180 degrees in plan leaving the wind where it is, then given that the S-Westerlies are more frequent and stronger than the Northerlies, the moorings would be a little more uncomfortable more often.

Yours in obfuscation,
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 11:40 pm 
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Well done Roger. I suspect that approximately 50% of readers understood what you really meant in your second post on this thread so it is to your credit that you have returned to elucidate further and have managed to reduce this fraction to 25%. :)

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:18 am 
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Not for the first time, I find myself in a minority I think.

Whassallthisabout then? Cannot understand a word of it. Completely Bonkers to suggest that this anchorage is better than that in a storm. Clearly the only place to be is at home with the doors and windows shut.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:56 am 
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I wouldn't worry Ken, nowhere can be as damaging as Port Edgar when the tide turns in a blow. And anyway there's another 39 years before the next "once in 40 years" storm and that'll see out at least 2 of your triumvirate.


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