Now the cat's away...

[Telo]

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It Kathy's Cove sounds good to me.

Isn't that yourself? Sounds like a unusual case of vanity nomenclature.

[Nick]

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Finally made contact with Rob Whelton, Vega owner from Stornoway, via YBW PM so hoping to meet up in Gairloch tomorrow.

[Telo]

Thinking about it, I'm sure I lost a fiver each way on Kathy's Cove.

[jim.r]

Thinking about it, I'm sure I lost a fiver each way on Kathy's Cove.

jings that's an expensive water taxi, hae ye no goat a dinhgy?

[Alcyone]

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No blog this year, will write up the cruise when we get back.

Pity, I enjoyed reading your exploits of your two week trip to Lochaline last year.

[Telo]

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No blog this year, will write up the cruise when we get back.

Pity, I enjoyed reading your exploits of your two week trip to Lochaline last year.

[Nick]

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Last night a 110 year old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter 'Dolphin' pulled into Acarseid Mor and dropped anchor. Apart from a 6 hour stop in Kinlochbrvie they had come non-stop from the Lofotens in just six days. Real Tilman clones in old-fashioned clothing, a battered old clinker pram dinghy and partial to a healthy dip in the briny in the morning.

Lovely gentle close reach in bright sunshine across here from the top of Rona this morning. In the Old Inn in Gairloch listening to an Irish band.

Racing round the cans tomorrow.

[Mark]

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Last night a 110 year old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter 'Dolphin' pulled into Acarseid Mor and dropped anchor. Apart from a 6 hour stop in Kinlochbrvie they had come non-stop from the Lofotens in just six days. Real Tilman clones in old-fashioned clothing, a battered old clinker pram dinghy and partial to a healthy dip in the briny in the morning.

Lovely gentle close reach in bright sunshine across here from the top of Rona this morning. In the Old Inn in Gairloch listening to an Irish band.

Racing round the cans tomorrow.

I've swum in Acaisaid Mor on a freezing April morning. Glad I did.

Wonder if the Pilot cutter bloke have a blog. Doubt it, which is a shame in some ways.

[DaveS]

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It's got a name on the chart I used - Sailean something-or-other, can't remember, more if I ever get internet access while on board. Kathy's Cove sounds good to me.

A month late, but Martin Laurence's sailing directions calls the V shaped bay to the E of Sailean Mor, Sailean an Docha.

On a similar theme, last week I had a quick look in to the wee bay at the entrance to Upper Loch Torridon called Camus an Leosa. The OS map calls it Camus an Leim (with an acute accent mark above the e, but I don't know how to do that). Wonder which is right?

[claymore]

Some people are just plain unlucky - fancy sailing such a long way to a beautiful wee anchorage tae find yer sharin' it wi webcringle