Summer 2012. 4 Across the Minch and Stornoway

July 12^th

Left Loch Inver and sailed across the Minch towards Stornoway .

July 13^th :

Enjoyed sailing a real boat ! , a traditional , wooden open fishing boat in Stornoway harbour :

Stornoway

 

Summer 2012. 3 Loch Inver

July 10^th :

Sailed around the point of Stoer and arrived at Loch Inver .

Old man of Stoer

Crew at watch !

Stoer Lighthouse

Entrance to Loch Inver

 We enjoyed our walk in the woods and pebbled beach at Loch Inver

Summer 2012. 2. Lochan Saile

July 7^th :  Left Kinlochbervie and sailed to Badcall islands and anchored at Lochan Saile. 

 

Enjoyed walks at Badcall bay:

Escapade anchrored in the bay.

 

Prepared a birthday cake for Elif the next day,  July the 8th :

Happy Birthday Elif !

Summer 2012. 1. Back on board, sailing in Scotland

After spending fall in Stromness fitting a new kitchen at Ness, then winter in Canada with daughters and cats, and spring in Turkey , we are finally back on Escapade , enjoying sailing on the west coast of Scotland.

3^rd and 4^th of July :

Left Stromness on July the 3^rd  in the afternoon , heading to mainland Scotland.  

Old man of Hoy

 

 

Arrived at Kyle of Tongue, next day at 3:15 a.m ,  anchored at Talmine bay .  

 

Left on the same day sailing towards west to Loch Eribol and enjoyed seeing some dolphins and a big whale ( approx. 5 meters ) on the way.

North Coast of Scotland

Entrance to Loch Eribol

Loch Eribol

Clearing Fog at Loch Eribol

 

5^th of July:

Sailed towards Cape Wrath in thick fog ( about a 100 meter visibility ) for 3.5 hours and arrived alongside the pontoon at Kinlochbervie harbour. 

We are now at Kinlochbervie harbour , preparing to leave soon towards Badcall islands.

Summer 2011. Sailing back home 8.Arrived, Back in Stromness,Orkney !

We arrived back in Stromness today , after sailing 1.717 miles this summer. 

We had a lovely day sail from Long Hope to Stromness today with strong winds , 25-30 knots from southeast, and just celebrated our arrival with my boat made fruit cake and our ginger beer !

Long Hope, Orkney

  

We first sailed from Kirkwall out to the east and around South Ronaldsay and into Scapa Flow and decided to spend a night at Long Hope.

Copinsay lighthouse and Horse of Copinsay

Pentland Skerries

We had a nice sunny afternoon in Long Hope and spent the night moored alongside the lifeboat.

Summer 2011. Sailing back home 7. From Peterhead to Kirkwall, Orkney

When we had a break from Gale force winds, we decided to sail up to Orkney. So we left Peterhead with the tide in Saturday afternoon and arrived in Kirkwall after 24 hours of sailing.

It was very nice to see beautiful lands of Orkney again, despite low visibility due to misty weather.

Summer 2011. Sailing back home 6. From Egersund, Norway to Peterhead, Scotland

Another North Sea crossing, almost 52 hours at sea and this time I was able to do a pleasent night watch.

We left Egersund last saturday morning with southerly winds when we saw the suitable weather forecast for the next few days, otherwise we would be staying in Norway for the winter as more depressions were coming.

First hour was through Nordesundet, a narrow channel, where we enjoyed a lovely typical Norwegian scenery.

Then went out into North Sea in strong, near gale force winds for the next 24 hours , then wind died and we had to motor rest of the way to Peterhead.

Oil platform in the North Sea

Approaching Peterhead, Scotland

Dinghy sailing in Peterhead marina