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Tobermory the third time
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 11:45 pm
by Nick
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Sailed (motored!) up to Tobers yesterday aboard Fairwinds with Catherine, having promised to take her there. She loved it. Sailed ALL the way back today in just 6 hours pontoon to mooring in Balvicar, including sailing through Easdale and Cuan sounds.
Apart from the boom falling off in Tobermory Bay when we took the main down on arrival (broken gooseneck) it was a trouble-free shakedown cruise. We sailed all the way home with the boom lashed on with dyneema - great stuff.
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 4:20 pm
by wully
Since Im just over the hill from Groovee Craobhee it would be rude not to come and say hello...
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:17 pm
by claymore
Nick wrote:.
Sailed (motored!) up to Tobers yesterday aboard Fairwinds with Catherine, having promised to take her there. She loved it. Sailed ALL the way back today in just 6 hours pontoon to mooring in Balvicar, including sailing through Easdale and Cuan sounds.
Apart from the boom falling off in Tobermory Bay when we took the main down on arrival (broken gooseneck) it was a trouble-free shakedown cruise. We sailed all the way home with the boom lashed on with dyneema - great stuff.
I would have thought hemp rather than Dyneema fer an auld cludgie like yersel'
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 2:07 pm
by Mavanier
What are your plans for this year Nick? We hope to make it to SY as usual but have yet to try sailing with the wee one. On the plus side, we are both free of work commitments for the whole year so, for once, that won't stop us.
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 11:49 pm
by Nick
Mavanier wrote:What are your plans for this year Nick? We hope to make it to SY as usual but have yet to try sailing with the wee one. On the plus side, we are both free of work commitments for the whole year so, for once, that won't stop us.
Catherine has taken three weeks off work to sail to Stornoway with me and I have purchased two tickets for the whole of HebCeltFest. Sadly she is a wage slave at the moment, so the remainder of my sailing is likely to be restricted to long weekends and maybe the occasional skippered charter for money.
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 5:45 pm
by wully
BlowingOldBoots wrote:wully wrote:Since Im just over the hill from Groovee Craobhee it would be rude not to come and say hello...
Indeed it would be because so many do not understand oil men, the drinking, the huge incidents of colossal financial encumbrance for the want of an O ring, alimony, young woman and foreign climes and dark nights of loss and lonelyism; been the ruin of us, I say, so lets drink to that.
Nobody said it would be easy in the patch..
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 5:47 pm
by claymore
Wullyum
are you around next Mon- Wed?
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:15 pm
by wully
claymore wrote:Wullyum
are you around next Mon- Wed?
Nup..30th. Slumming it in your favourite place until then.
Re: Tobermory the third time
Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 12:13 pm
by DaveS
BlowingOldBoots wrote:
So when I get to Craobh Haven, I hope I don't have to drink by myself, although that wont stop me. Look for the small, bald, fat Scotsman with a drink in one hand, a zombie novel in the other and wearing a tinfoil hat, you are all welcome for a cup of tea or a glass or 2 of Uisge beatha.
As a Craobh berthee I will take you up on that - and reciprocate. Avilion is berthed on D16.