I can vaguely remember, a few years ago, having a problem when anchoring in Salen Bay on Mull. Anyway, we intended to call in there the other say, carefully "feeling" our way round the piers to the anchoring area. We were about 200m SW of the westerly ruined pier (between Antelope Rock and the drying rocksmarked in the SE corner of the bay) when Mme S at the bow indicated submerged rocks ahead. Before we were able to make sternway, the depthometer dropped to 7.2ft. There should have been over one metre of tide on top of the charted depth. We didn't stay but went and had a great sail up to the Sàilean Mòr anchorage on Oronsay, Loch Sunart.
Anyone else experienced any problem at Salen?
Anchoring in Salen Bay, Mull.
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Daveanmucker
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Visited Salen Bay a year or two ago, didn't have any trouble anchoring, but went ashore t get some bread and called for a pint in the hotel. Its the ONLY time in 9 years sailing in western Scotland I have felt like an outsider.
The bar was unfriendly bordering on rude and threatening.
Never been back since.
The bar was unfriendly bordering on rude and threatening.
Never been back since.
We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
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DaveS
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Salen
Sounds like not much has changed. From my September '98 Yotblog entry:
We picked up one of the now abandoned HIDB vistor buoys then paddled ashore. I had read something about a charge for landing on the jetty so we used the beach. This, unfortunately give us quite a circuitous walk round the outside of gardens, etc. before reaching the road to the pub. We ate there, but it was distinctly odd: more like a pub in a lowlands council estate than the highlands.
One of those places where, on your entry, all conversation stops and everyone looks at you...
We picked up one of the now abandoned HIDB vistor buoys then paddled ashore. I had read something about a charge for landing on the jetty so we used the beach. This, unfortunately give us quite a circuitous walk round the outside of gardens, etc. before reaching the road to the pub. We ate there, but it was distinctly odd: more like a pub in a lowlands council estate than the highlands.
One of those places where, on your entry, all conversation stops and everyone looks at you...