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Sun 9 August 2009
Back Aboard
We resumed our summer cruise at Lochinver after travelling up by bus via Inverness and Ullapool. It was a fine, balmy evening and we met the first midges of the trip. A prawn fisherman gave us these four lovely whiting, which fed us for the next two days. We left on a fine, sunny but windless morning and motored down to Loch Gairloch, where we moored at Badachro. We left next morning in a S5 gusting 6, which gave us good sailing west across to the north of Skye and past Eilean Trodday. We decided to make best use of the wind and carried on across the Little Minch to the Sound of Harris, anchoring in Vaccasay Basin at Hermetray. It was low water springs and Dirt Rock was showing as a nasty row of rocky teeth. There is now a fish farm in the basin, but there is still plenty of room to anchor clear of it. The wind gradually died away to give a quiet evening.
Posted by skipper at August 9, 2009 07:48 AM