Escape from Clachan Sound - 3.5th time lucky
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:55 pm
1. Grevious Dinghily Harm as already documented.
2. Thursday afternoon 3/5/12 - Engine misbehaved. Got it ashore and fixed by Stoddarts but couldn't get it re-installed in time for Friday's tide.
3a) Saturday afternoon 5/5/12 - Dropped mooring and headed south but GPS issue left me with no track to follow. Picked up mooring again and pushed buttons with a increasing fear that I might be on some kind of Flying Dutchman mooring, never to escape.
3b) Dropped mooring again and with the help of the GPS and John's hand-drawn chart we made it safely out. One high point was, for a few seconds, thinking we would sail through someone's garden until I realised I was seeing floating islands of grass cuttings that some humourist had dumped into the Sound to drift across the channel.
2. Thursday afternoon 3/5/12 - Engine misbehaved. Got it ashore and fixed by Stoddarts but couldn't get it re-installed in time for Friday's tide.
3a) Saturday afternoon 5/5/12 - Dropped mooring and headed south but GPS issue left me with no track to follow. Picked up mooring again and pushed buttons with a increasing fear that I might be on some kind of Flying Dutchman mooring, never to escape.
3b) Dropped mooring again and with the help of the GPS and John's hand-drawn chart we made it safely out. One high point was, for a few seconds, thinking we would sail through someone's garden until I realised I was seeing floating islands of grass cuttings that some humourist had dumped into the Sound to drift across the channel.