A quick trip round the better parts of Scotland

[mm5aho]

Back Sunday night from a fortnight's trip round Scotland. Depart Rhu Friday night:
Rhu - anchor Burnt Isles- Ardishaig - Crinan - Pulldobhrain (dragged anchor)- Eigg (failed to drag anchor) - Kyle of Lochalsh - Tanera Mor, Summer Isles - Kinlochbervie - Stromness (and various parts Scapa Flow) - Wick - Inverness - Dochgarroch - Laggan Locks - Corran - Crinnan - Portavadie - Rhu.

Here's a few pix.



Cape Wrath, not being wrathful


Dolphins between Wrath and Stromness


Old man of Hoy


Hoymouth with the tide


Bagged a few more lighthouses while there


The ferry that seems to defy all weathers


Hoy sunsets


Fog in the Moray Firth - near Beatrice


Marina electrical connection, Norwegian style


Under the Kessock Brige at 9pm


This fog chased us south in Moray Firth, and overtook us! Zero viz for 4 hours.


wet crew on Caledonian Canal


playing chase with another yacht on Lochs


dead straight, no wind.


Rather "regal" looking yacht in Ft Augustus


One yacht with oversized flag


another sniffy yacht


This boat didn't seem to make it


another loch, another day


This lock is full, find your own!


The Crinan can be picturesque at times


beat you to the next lock!

I don't know why some of these seem embedded and others linked. All done the same way I think

[aquaplane]

Some nice pictures there, I hope you had a good trip.

[mm5aho]

"Bloodhound" was formerly a Royal Yacht, said to be the yacht that got Princess Anne interested in sailing.

[Telo]

Jings, you fairly covered some ground. All that in two weeks.....

Nice pics.

[claymore]

"Bloodhound" was formerly a Royal Yacht, said to be the yacht that got Princess Anne interested in sailing.

Nah - that wass me whit got her interested.....

[mm5aho]

I saved tracklogs from my 2 week whirlwind tour, converted then to text files to edit the bad GPS data points, then to GPX files to import into Google Earth, then saved a screenshot of that. So here's my track...

[Mavanier]

Thanks for sharing, looks like a great trip. Amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it!

[Fingal]

That's pretty impressive for a small crew in a normal yacht. Not much time for sightseeing, pub visits, sitting around doing nothing, though?

[mm5aho]

We were only two from Rhu to Orkney and south to Inverness where SWIMBO joined us for the Caley Canal and back.
We stopped many times, and didn't sail later than about 10pm, but started many days at 0600. We had thought to sail overnight northwards on the west coast, but favourable tides gained us time and we arrived Stromness a day ahead of schedule. OUr objective was to be at Graemesay lighthouse (Hoy High) for the saturday between our two weeks. We arrived Thursday night.
Spent some time ashore at many stopping places. Kyle rained a downpour. Kinlochbervie a ghost town, Stromness beautiful. Wick? nice harbour, too many Indian takeaways and only found one Chinese!