BLUEMOMENT

If it makes you feel any better, last time I was there it was thrashing with rain, and in the course of paying the requisite amount, I lefta sizeable puddle on their carpet.....

I'm very pleased to hear that your friend has now paid up.

We had a similar experience, arriving one evening long after the office had closed, and leaving early next morning under a cloak of thick fog. A bizarre experience, as we'd left ten minutes after another boat who must have been gamboling about like lost lambs because they suddenly appeared on our stern going rather faster than I thought was good for them in the murky conditions.

We thought it wise to let them pass and decided to follow them out of Oban's north channel, our theory being that if they ran into anything ahead of us, then we could probably slow down sufficiently to avoid serious mishap, and be able to provide immediate assistance should that prove necessary.

Anyway we emailed the company that day, and your post reminded me to check, but they hadn't come back to us. I've today paid by card over the phone. Compared to Tobermory, the facilities, including the free taxi service are good value, so I don't grudge it.

Hmmm
Is this related to the "Eloise, please furl your ensign as we are lost and cannot see where we should be going without your stern light to guide us" incident?

"...All ships, all ships, all ships!
This is yacht 'Shard, Shard, Shard'!

Sailing yacht 'Shard' shortly leaving Oban Bay by the North Channel.

All CalMac ferries kindly keep bluddy well clear!

This is 'Shard'.

Out!

I'm starting to see a picture emerging here.

Ah they were a sicht tae behold
There wiz Mummy Shard oan Klaxon and VHF - sutably lifejacketed and looking braw as ever
There wiz Baby Shard oan Point, lifejacketed- eyes sharpened tae fine points an keenly watching every move we made
An there at the back wiz th'auld yin hissel - lugs fair flappin in ra early mornin mist defyin' Goad an ra' elements tae pit him under.....
Sae close tae us, we wiz wonderin whether we should be lookin in ra'almanac tae see whit lights an flags we should be displaying fer a towin vessel

claymore wrote:we wiz wonderin whether we should be lookin in ra'almanac tae see whit lights an flags we should be displaying fer a towin vessel

Silly auld sod!

string failure, i think....edited out.