BLUEMOMENT

Chaps & chapesses, can you promise me excellent weather for the last 2 weeks in August?

"Ba ba second man, have you any rope?"
"No sir, no sir, not a bloomin hope"...

jim.r wrote:Chaps & chapesses, can you promise me excellent weather for the last 2 weeks in August?

I believe the pattern of the year so far with rain in the south and dry bright weather in the north is to be reversed with torrential rain in the north especially through the great glen, northerlies on the west, southerlies on the east and balmy warm gentle breezes and sunshine in the south.

Enjoy!

aye, i'm managing my expectations! Having spent my youth climbing in Glen Coe and the Bill escaping occasionally to the balmy climes of Dunkeld, Newtonmore and the Shelterstone, I've a fair idea of what to expect!

Re climbing, is anchoring or mooring feasible at Ballahullish with a 6'6" draught and 60' ish air draught. Daughter is dead keen to do some of the Glen Coe classics on this trip. Otherwise I suppose we could just stay at Corpach for a few days and drive down.

jim.r wrote:Re climbing, is anchoring or mooring feasible at Ballahullish with a 6'6" draught and 60' ish air draught. Daughter is dead keen to do some of the Glen Coe classics on this trip. Otherwise I suppose we could just stay at Corpach for a few days and drive down.

I think you would be lucky to get into Loch Leven. The clearance under Ballachulish Bridge is 16 metres at HAT. (HAT Oban is 4.5 metres above chart datum.) The least depth in the entrance is about 2.5 metres.

jim.r wrote:aye, i'm managing my expectations! Having spent my youth climbing in Glen Coe and the Bill escaping occasionally to the balmy climes of Dunkeld, Newtonmore and the Shelterstone, I've a fair idea of what to expect!

Re climbing, is anchoring or mooring feasible at Ballahullish with a 6'6" draught and 60' ish air draught. Daughter is dead keen to do some of the Glen Coe classics on this trip. Otherwise I suppose we could just stay at Corpach for a few days and drive down.

If you can get under the bridge (you could always try that swinging ball trick that gets posted from time to time ) then there is a pontoon at the Isles of Glen Coe Hotel, Ballachullish. It used to be free if you ate at the hotel. As is often the case, the local fishing boats tend to monopolise it (and I wonder how many of them eat in the hotel?) There's another man-made bay beyond the hotel which was supposed to get a pontoon, but that never happened. Anchoring there might be possible, but might be deep and the bottom is probably slate. There is an anchorage on the north side, past the bridge, but that's getting less convenient.

60ft?

I make that 18.4m air draft - nae chance.

There are visitor moorings at the Holly Tree Hotel, but Dallens Bay and get a bus may be the best option.

Nick wrote:60ft?

I make that 18.4m air draft - nae chance.

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18.288m akshully, but to be fair the 60 foot was "ish" so maybe 18m-ish would be better. However, unless extreme measures are attempted (see previous post) I entirely agree with the conclusion: nae chance.

Of course I can.
I believe the weather will be hot and sunny in the Sahara. Have you thought about a sand yacht?