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Tobermory lifeboat called to yacht agrojund at Arinagour
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:16 am
by Nick
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A yacht with three people aboard dragged its anchor in strong SE winds early yesterday morning and went aground at Arinagour.
Tobermory lifeboat passed a rope and towed the yacht off, saw her secured to a mooring and, after checking there was no water ingress, returned to Tobermory.
Personally I always prefer to pick up a mooring now they have been replaced with new ones. The anchorage is very exposed in strong winds from almost any direction and even on our meagre budget £10 does not seem like a lot to pay for a good night's sleep.
Re: Tobermory lifeboat called to yacht agrojund at Arinagour
Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:30 pm
by wully
Arinagour isnae the best place for a night at anchor- or on a mooring - with east in the wind..
I hope their boatie isn't badly damaged.
Re: Tobermory lifeboat called to yacht agrojund at Arinagour
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:12 pm
by Telo
wully wrote:Arinagour isnae the best place for a night at anchor- or on a mooring - with east in the wind..
Agreed, but the funny thing is that it's almost as bad in a NW wind, particularly at half flood and more. The land to the NW is very low lying so doesn't provide much wind shelter anyway, but, as the head of the loch fills with the tide the increase in fetch can be quite dramatic with very short steep waves resulting in some quite violent pitching. We lifted the anchor one evening and headed for Ulva rather than put up with that. Not recommended in strong NWs either, imho.
Re: Tobermory lifeboat called to yacht agrojund at Arinagour
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:57 pm
by mm5aho
I took a mooring last time in there, but thought that some of the moorings seemed to be in pretty shallow water (on the north side). Weren't many in that night, so had a choice of them.
Is that right or did I imagine that? Are some in water that's only about 1m deep at LT?
Re: Tobermory lifeboat called to yacht agrojund at Arinagour
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:50 pm
by Ghillie
Shard wrote
"agreed, but the funny thing is that it's almost as bad in a NW wind, particularly at half flood and more. The land to the NW is very low lying so doesn't provide"
(sending this from a not so smart phone)
Many many years ago, (before acquiring my undoubted skills as a brilliant skipper) we rode out a NW gale there on a mooring. I had looped 3 lines through the ring only to be called up by the boat in front to tell me that two of them had chafed completely through, (with the sheering about).....a bight of the anchor chain was then threaded through the ring. We could not get off the boat for 24 hrs. It was not comfortable.