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It was a bit of a bumpy night on our mooring buoy and the day started with rain and the wind in the wrong direction to go south. We mulched onboard most of the day, reading books, until, at around 4 o’clock, it brightened up. Emptied the rainwater out of the dinghy and quickly whizzed […]

Again set off early to catch the tide through the Sound of Islay with the intention of reaching Port Ellen towards the south of Islay. We set off in no wind steering through the rocks and then the wind annoyingly came up from directly ahead as we we entered the Sound of Islay. In fairness

Set off early again from Puilladobhrain to catch the south going tide with the intention of going to Colonsay. We had received a flyer saying that 6 new visitor buoys had been laid by Mowi https://mowi.com/uk/about/ in a bay on Colonsay. Mowi seems to be everywhere in Scotland we have visited and they seem to

Up early to catch the tide going down the Sound of Mull. The chart plotter behaved itself and worked straight away so we are keeping our fingers crossed! Once outside Lochaline the wind soon came up to over 20 knots so with one reef and a reduced headsail we tacked down the Sound with the

Woke up to a much better morning. Up early and ashore for showers and shopping and then we motored over to the fuel berth to top-up with diesel (62 litres) and water. Paid our mooring dues and bought a chart for Northern Ireland. As we left the chart plotter played up again and whilst Anne