Sailing in Sail Hebrides

July 15, 2007 on 8:27 pm | In Sailing |

The week has flown by here with The Hebridean Celtic Festival and Sail Hebrides, the boat has been reasonably busy, although as with the kayaking it seems everyone is here to party and not to do any outdoor stuff. Anna’s gig in the tent last night went well and everyone has been saying they loved the acapella Gaelic voices.

Brendon did some guiding for us yesterday and they went out from Crosbost and got as far as the Witches Pool on the other side of Loch Erisort. It was calm despite the odd bit of rain

I had a fantastic day on Wednesday when I was out for the two half day voyages, in the morning we went out under engine as there was no wind and had just put the lines over the side to see if there were fish for lunch and four or five harbour porpoises blew near, at this the surface of the water  started to chatter with the small fish being driven up. Then the Minke whales appeared and they were fishing the surface and then as we watched one ring with a bubble curtain and then breach to scoop up the fish, magic. If I can work out how I will try and get a picture uploaded - not of the breach as I was standing with my mouth open at that point.

In the afternoon on the way back, it was the sail in with all the boats attending Sail Hebrides, so we were treated to about 20 other boats and the MCA tug escorting us in with his water cannon spraying. Oh that every day was like that !

The boat is off to the Shiants tommorrow and I am over to Uist to work, I am getting excited about next week’s  sea kayaking expedition just need some half decent weather.

Tim Pickering
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