1. Grevious Dinghily Harm as already documented.
2. Thursday afternoon 3/5/12 - Engine misbehaved. Got it ashore and fixed by Stoddarts but couldn't get it re-installed in time for Friday's tide.
3a) Saturday afternoon 5/5/12 - Dropped mooring and headed south but GPS issue left me with no track to follow. Picked up mooring again and pushed buttons with a increasing fear that I might be on some kind of Flying Dutchman mooring, never to escape.
3b) Dropped mooring again and with the help of the GPS and John's hand-drawn chart we made it safely out. One high point was, for a few seconds, thinking we would sail through someone's garden until I realised I was seeing floating islands of grass cuttings that some humourist had dumped into the Sound to drift across the channel.
Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
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Silkie
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Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
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ash
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
Glad to hear that you escaped.Silkie wrote: headed south but GPS issue left me with no track to follow........ ......... with the help of the GPS and John's hand-drawn chart we made it safely out.
I hadn't realised that you had parked 'Silkie' so far into uncharted waters. Were you hiding from the Revenue Men?
Where will you be based throughout the summer?
Ash
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Albin Vega "Mistral" is now sold
Albin Vega "Mistral" is now sold
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Silkie
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
Back home at Dunstaffnage - why would anyone want to be anywhere else?
different colours made of tears
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wully
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
Silkie wrote:Back home at Dunstaffnage - why would anyone want to be anywhere else?
It might be nice to keep your boat somewhere the locals don't eat their young....
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sahona
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
Is there a marina in Glespin?
http://trooncruisingclub.org/ 20' - 30' Berths available, Clyde.
Cruising, racing, maintenance facilities. Go take a look, you know you want to.
Cruising, racing, maintenance facilities. Go take a look, you know you want to.
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Clyde_Wanderer
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
There was a Hurley22 long keeler launched at the yard yesterday.
Very strong looking boat.
The owner was telling my mate that a female is currently sailing one across the atlantic.
Do any of you guys know of this trip?
C_W
Very strong looking boat.
The owner was telling my mate that a female is currently sailing one across the atlantic.
Do any of you guys know of this trip?
C_W
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ubergeekian
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
I think it's been mentioned in Sailing Today. Their tame surveyor, Nick Vass, is a big Hurley man ...Clyde_Wanderer wrote:There was a Hurley22 long keeler launched at the yard yesterday.
Very strong looking boat.
The owner was telling my mate that a female is currently sailing one across the atlantic.
Do any of you guys know of this trip?
C_W
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's Razor
But don't rule out malice - First Corollary to Hanlon's Razor
But don't rule out malice - First Corollary to Hanlon's Razor
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aquaplane
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Re: Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
He must get about a bit must that Vass bloke, he is prominent in the WOA too, often posts on the WOA forum.ubergeekian wrote:I think it's been mentioned in Sailing Today. Their tame surveyor, Nick Vass, is a big Hurley man ...
Seminole.
Cheers Bob.
Cheers Bob.