Mull and The Small Isles - UK Wayfarer Association
Mull and The Small Isles - UK Wayfarer Association
Mull and The Small Isles - UK Wayfarer Association
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Eigg <strong>and</strong> Rhum<br />
DAY S Satura 25 May these give up too. Unfortu- there been any wind for sailnately<br />
the swell makes the sails ing we would not have both-<br />
We have a rough plan to _ ~ ~ ~ slat annoyingly. ~~~~~~~~~rl So down they<br />
make for Soay initially. With come <strong>and</strong> out with the oars,<br />
ered th to go bot so close ove haw before<br />
moving on to find somewhere<br />
some boat rolling we are off<br />
at 1030 hrs. genoa <strong>and</strong> 1 reef.<br />
We get a lot of shelter from<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no tide, Tarscavaig a else. This black s<strong>and</strong> is tricky<br />
stuff to identify correctly untiny<br />
village on Skye is about ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Nral 2 less you are I gus almost ae walking ol on<br />
the hills on Eigg <strong>and</strong> it is;lo miles away, <strong>and</strong> according to it!<br />
going until we clear its<br />
shadow. Now we feel the full<br />
OS has a s<strong>and</strong>y beach. Tarscav-<br />
aig sits in a wide bay, from a It is difficult to recommend<br />
strength, F4 <strong>and</strong> we hard on distance we cannot find s<strong>and</strong>, this as an overnight stop, there<br />
the NW wind, I do not fancy just horrible stones. We perse- are large stones <strong>and</strong> rocks at<br />
a long beat to Soay which we<br />
cannot lay on one leg. Point<br />
vere. on the South East corner<br />
of the bay, just to one side of<br />
the top of the beach, which<br />
would have been difficult to<br />
of Sleat comes abeam,. after a a house almost on the fore- ri h ot vrhdw<br />
conference with Treacle Too<br />
on VHF we opt for loch Elsort<br />
shore we find our sanid- black<br />
again but nice <strong>and</strong> firm, very<br />
needed to move the boat<br />
above any breaking swell.<br />
on Skye which should be a<br />
fine reach,<br />
Almost as soon as we decide<br />
on a new destination the wind<br />
falls light <strong>and</strong> then to nothing.<br />
We drift slowly on for a while,<br />
gently shelving. A stream runs<br />
into the bay just here. <strong>and</strong> we<br />
use its channel to float the<br />
boats up the beach a little. No<br />
shelter from NW but for now<br />
it is flat calm. It is only when<br />
we are a few yards from the<br />
Nral us ae ol<br />
break on the beach <strong>and</strong> make<br />
anchoring uncomnfortable.<br />
It is abslutely flat calm<br />
through the night we float as<br />
the tide comes in <strong>and</strong> later<br />
gently ground in the early<br />
occasionally a light breeze fills beach that we can tell it is hours on a short anchor<br />
only to die away <strong>and</strong> soon s<strong>and</strong> rather than stones. Had line.<br />
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