Crane Vessel to Shiant Isles

[Alan_D]

Has anyone got any idea why the 60 metre long crane vessel Lara 1 is currently heading for the Shiant Isles, having come from Gourock via Oban? Is there anything heavy around there that needs lifting?

[marisca]

She is supposed to be carrying the old Calmac linkspan for disposal.

[Alan_D]

Lara 1 having circumnavigated Skye is currently anchored in Loch Ceann Traigh (Kentra) on the north side of Ardnamurchan, allegedly heading for Glenarm in Northern Ireland.

[SteveN]

Neither the linkspan nor Glenarm it seems:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksqMIV ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1joGpH5 ... sp=sharing

[marisca]

It looks like the linkspan is still on board. All very serendipitous.

[wully]

It’s in Oban Bay now. Wondered what it was as I drove past.

[Alan_D]

Neither the linkspan nor Glenarm it seems:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksqMIV ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1joGpH5 ... sp=sharing

Thanks for that. So there was something heavy at the Shiants that needed lifting ...

[Mavanier]

Watched this one unfold with some alarm. That landing craft is a couple of lochs over from my own mooring. Not ideal to have an unlit, unmanned boat drifting around the area.
I saw the dive video from before they lifted it, very odd looking inside the wheelhouse and seeing lifejackets pinned to the ceiling. I don't know what the prognosis is for the boat, from above it looked fine, bit of a bash at the stern, but something clearly made it sink.

I actually sailed quite close past the Shiants the day after it was located, but before the recovery teams got there. I didn't see anything, but then again it was just a VHF aerial sticking up so if I had seen it I would have been a bit worried.