Sailing Scotland – Sound of Mull – Lismore – Oban – Ep. 259

15 thoughts on “Sailing Scotland – Sound of Mull – Lismore – Oban – Ep. 259”

1. You need to head south where the weather is alleged to be better. We only had 1 honker to sit out in Dun laoighaire. Our last sail John was minus most of his clothes. Only lousy weather at weekends since September rolled in.

2. Hi both, we use an anchor alarm too. Locating the anchor in the right place on the app is conducive to a good night's sleep and fewer "intense crew discussions" :). So what we do, when setting anchor, is note the bearing and distance to the anchor at the time of motoring astern to set the anchor. Bearing is easily taken from the ship's compass (the boat will be pointing directly at the anchor) and distance is known because the anchor rode length is known. Be sure to add the length of the boat from stem to where the app device is at the time of setting (don't ask me how I know that!) So by moving the anchor on the app to match the bearing/distance it can be set in the correct position – no more worries about swinging away from the radius of the actual anchor placement ……I hope that makes sense….another fun video, thanks girls!

3. HI Lasses, recognise your assessment of late summer/early autumn weather, buffeted around at anchor studying forecasts/charts for next step homeward …. your video captured it so very well! Been wearisome end to season that started so well. Hopefully the winter will be kind.
   Love the colour-bar interlude graphic BTW; ex-BBC Engineer here and not seen colour-bars for a good while 🙂

4. UK weather – as always – challenging! We spent August in Aberdeen, with the 21-23 degrees and the people over there were saying it is pretty warm. The August where you are does not look that warm, haha!

5. Thank you for sharing all your experiences for us newer sailors: firstly, it is nice to know that learning is a constant so we don’t feel as bad about making mistakes along the way: secondly, I remember some of them and I can be occasionally more proactive on some. Thank you for being so real!! What a pleasure it is to watch your episodes and my wife and I look forward to your new ones each week.🙂

6. It’s been a shit summer 💩here in Scotland 😩

7. New musical, starring Gaynor.
   The Sound of Mull.
   Picture it…. A camera swooping around SV Salty Lass, coming in. Gaynor, in full foul weather gear, emerges from the saloon, shaking her head and belting out, " The seas are alive, with the sound of OH! MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!"
   So glad that you're safe, somewhat dry and that you didn't drag anchor too much.
   Thank you for sharing and the vistas behind you were stunning to see. 🐧🐧🐧☔☔☔

8. From memory Loch Aline has always been a source of solid mud!! And the word for a "Long Tack" is "Wearing Ship" which is what the old ships of the line had to do most of the time – which meant they were very easy to get "embayed" by an onshore wind. There was a tall ship in recent memory that got embayed on the North Cornish coast – and his engine didn't work (or he left it too late) and ended up on the rocks – I think it was one of those cadet training ships – there was loss of life and the skipper got taken to court for it. (just done a search for it – it was the Maria Asumpta in 1995 off Padstow) – the skipper was found guilty of manslaughter and got 18 months. Don't know where that one came from – should have warned you to pull up a bollard before I got started!!

9. August 20 and summers over – THANK YOU – I remember why I left 🙂

10. Another good one , I admire your honesty

11. We had a lovely stay on Loch Aline (Loch Alainn – pronounced like ah-leen, stress on first syllable) on anchor in July. The name means 'beautiful loch', and so it was on that day. Calm airs, a quiet peaceful anchorage, evening sunshine.

    I saw you were thinking of going on to Loch Spelvie before deciding on Oban. Wise choice! We took our boat, Súil Eile, to Loch Spelve and we just couldn't get our anchor to hold in the mud there. In the end we had to sail to Oban, anyway!

12. Well no better here in the antipodes with a terrible wet mid-spring and rains and floods forecast all summer, all courtesy of our 3rd consecutive annual La Nina event, amplified by climate change. Its more like Scotland here again this year, so plans like yours in tatters 😢

13. Great video like always. Just wondering when you lasses think about heading to warmer weather?

14. I watched this on the big screen in the bedroom. Such a different experience, particularly when Salty was swinging on her anchorage in Loch Aline! Then it got even better when you were between Mull and Lismore! ⛵️

15. Beautiful sailing ⛵️ ❤️ Watched from London 👌 👍

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