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scotland

outer hebrides & skye

Gillie and Robin Whittle

“Bumble Chugger” and our four wheel trailer needed a good check over before braving the currently gale lashed West Coast of Scotland. Inevitably the wheel bearings, brakes and brake cables needed attention. A very messy operation but we have found it to be quite essential. The first year the garage did it, but we decided the expense was too much for us, so after finding a trailer centre that could provide all the parts we have carried out the work ourselves since then. The weather forecasts were distinctly bad for the few weeks leading up to the trip. Just in case we were to get good weather we embarked on a course of Marmite, which one of the magazines had said will keep the mosquitos at bay.

freya in the western isles

In the first of a number of logs, Clive Woodman relates the glories of sailing up the west coast of Scotland weeks after taking delivery of his new Shrimper.

clachan to connel

Underneath the Arches from Clachan to Connel by Heather & Billy Howard We spent a happy week in and around Loch Melfort during August 2000, where the locals were complaining of a prolonged drought, while the rest of Britain languished under grey skies, high winds and lashing rain. Having explored all the local lochs and creeks that could be reached by the day, we decided to move on north, in the general direction of Oban after a meet of the Royal Cruising Club. "Jubilate" was the smallest boat by a factor of two or three, but the subject of admiration and even some envy on the part of owners of large and splendid cruising yachts. Many of them had sailed up from various homeports in England, while we quietly cruised up the motorway. We had been eyeing the Clachan Bridge....

Largs to Tobermory + 2007

A trip by two Solent based boats in 2007..