BLUEMOMENT

Tiree Community Development Trust has been working with Tiree Community Business and the local Harbours Steering group to improve harbour facilities on Tiree. We are delighted to announce that funding has been secured through LEADER and the Windfall Fund and in May 2017 ten 15 ton moorings will be installed at Gott Bay. More details will follow soon but please keep an eye out here and on the island website www.isleoftiree.com for updates as they are available.

The local inshore fishermen will be ecstatic

islecastle wrote:Hi Wully, that's good news.

I seem to remember blue HIDB buoys there in the 80's.

Were there 2 of? They were gone by the time I had a boat and anchored there. ( good holding on clean sand )

I hope to go back this summer and anchor of Hynish before sailing out to Skerryvore.

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Tiree is the only inner Hebride unvisited by Fairwinds, largely due to the terrible reputation of Gott Bay as an anchorage, but it does indeed look like clean sand and so bombproof holding for the Spade.

Have I been fretting unnecessarily, and will the anti-wind brigade have forgotten or forgiven my strident opposition to their opposition to the Tiree Array?

Is it safe?

I don't know why Tiree is so scary as an anchorage - like everywhere else it's good on it's day. You'd have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to go there in a big westerly...or easterly.

Or any kind of strong wind.

From any direction...

But I've seen a boat anchored off the Maze in a light easterly - next stop Canada if he'd dragged.

wully wrote:You'd have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to go there in a big westerly...or easterly.

Or any kind of strong wind.

From any direction...

It;s quite a long way from Gott Bay to anywhere else as well . . . apart from the anchorage in Gunna Sound, know anything about that?

islecastle wrote:Nice having a civilised chat with you two, But it looks like back to normal from now on!
Dave (Ruairidh, yes really))

It's always civilised on here, and politics rarely raises its head.

This is a sailing forum.

Nick wrote:

wully wrote:You'd have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to go there in a big westerly...or easterly.

Or any kind of strong wind.

From any direction...

It;s quite a long way from Gott Bay to anywhere else as well . . . apart from the anchorage in Gunna Sound, know anything about that?

The only things I know about Gunna Sound are:

1. I've been escorted by dolphins every time I've sailed through it, easterly or westerly.
2. I've foraged a delicious supper of partans from the shore line at LWS while staying in a rental cottage at Coalas.

Never anchored there.

islecastle wrote:Nice having a civilised chat with you two, But it looks like back to normal from now on!
Dave (Ruairidh, yes really))

Why ever would that change?

Nick wrote: . . . apart from the anchorage in Gunna Sound, know anything about that?

Well, the Antares chart for Caolas Ban looks interesting, but not tried it yet.

Loch Breachacha was solid jellyfish when we anchored there a few years back. Feall Bay was a pleasant anchorage in settled weather.

I've anchored in Gott Bay twice. Once in calm weather and once in a strongish easterly that was very unpleasant. Holding seemed good, though.

I've also anchored off Gunna once, just for a few hours to do the hill. Thick mist made that expedition seem remarkably pointless, but it did constitute a Haswell-Smith "tick".