Hello chaps and chapesses

[Gordonmc]

Just a quick line to say hello. Apart from an item in the sales forum, this is my first post on this site. Good, innit?
I've not had a great deal of time up to now thanks to the weather gods deciding the boat's time ashore should be extended from the planned two weeks to a month. But now she's back on her mooring looking refreshed.
I took her down to Troon over two days mid-March having booked a week off work, the plan being to have her hauled the following week, then get stuck in on the last week of the month.
Remember, this is after a consistently cold but dry few weeks. Sods law dictated as soon as I started work a series of depressions came over. Wind, rain every day and a growing frustration.
I did get the job finished, but the last coat of pain went on the topsides on the Friday... to late for a lift in that week.
On Good Friday I arrived back from Rome in the early hours, a couple of hours kip and down to the boat. Filled her water and diesel tanks and off.
First night was in Kilchattan bay after playing horse and hounds with a hunter-killer sub off Wee Cumbrae. Second stop at Colintraive moorings for no better reason I was fed up with my own company and fancied the idea of someone cooking for me. The Colintraive Inn salmon and scallops were fine.
Next morning was gusty with the wind all over the shop. Onto the mooring and a few mending jobs. Home in Ayr for tea-time.
Hopefully that will be her settled for a couple of years at least before I need to experience the dread Troon chop again.

Yours aye,

[Superstrath]

Our paths must have crosed on Good Friday, we sailed to Lamlash out of Ardrossan. Assuming it was the same sub, it was to the East of Holy Isle when it had to alter for us.
So where is your mooring?

Alistair

[Gordonmc]

Our paths must have crosed on Good Friday, we sailed to Lamlash out of Ardrossan. Assuming it was the same sub, it was to the East of Holy Isle when it had to alter for us.
So where is your mooring?

Alistair

Mooring is on Loch Riddon, East side.
I don't know what the sub was up to. It was off Corrie when I first saw it, and lost sight when I went between Wee Cumbrae and Portencross. I was North of the isle when I saw it again... it may have been submerged or in the shadow of the headland but it appeared very quickly. It weaved about a bit before heading South again. There was no ensign up so he may have been planning to dive again.
The coastguard subfax made no mention of dived operations 'tho.