Mull and The Small Isles - UK Wayfarer Association

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The manouevre works very sweetly. Clare and I take two long ropes. one from the bow Appendix | one from the stern and work the boats through the saltings and onto the more level grass closer to the road. Rob and Caroline do likewise with Treacle Too. Then onto the trolleys and safely clear of the COOKING Epigas butane/propane stove with 3 spare "250" canisters. MSR multifuel stove and l litre of petrol, this wil also burns parrafin. series 1:50000 No.s 32,39.40,47,49 covered our cruise. COASTGUA RD It is good practice when going water. By 0500 hrs we have the boats safely on their trailers well clear of the tide. Water in two 10 litre plastic water containers fitted with taps. Note we are on the ex. to sea to inform the coastguard, we sent our details to Oban coastguard and gener- Back at the cottage we have some tea and breakfast. Rob and Caroline go back to their sleeping bags. cessive side with both fuel and water - cooking proper meals and heating water for washing salt off in the evenings. ally kept in touch throughout the fortnight. It is not neces- sary to log the start and finish of every day, make it clear Clare and i are awake and not in the mood for going back to sleep, there seems little point in putting off the 10 hr drive back to Shropshire. With the boat loaded onto the trailer and strapped down we leave Arisaig at 0600 hrs our cruise and early morning excitement over. CHARTS & PILOTS & NAVIGATION lmray Laurie Norie & Wilson - The Yachtsman's Pilot To The West Coast of Scotland - Crinnan to Canna by Martin Lawrence covered our cruise except for Skye which is covered by the same series pilot" y w day t he th every few days. it helps the CC to know you are sailing in the area. The CG transmits the marinecall forecast on VHF ch67 (announced on chl6 first). Check the times. We picked this up as far as Eigg on our handheld VHF. The CC FOOD Castle Bay to Cape Wrath-. could not receive us from the Imray C65 &C66 West coast islands on VHF, so use the Oban has big supermarkets. of Scotand phone instead. We took dried and long life of Scotlan. foods - lentils(we are vegetari- Ordnance Survey landranger ans). rice, smash, cous cous. noodles. pitta bread, peas. sprouted wheat bread. vege. BOAT & EQUIPMENT tarian pate, tomatoe paste and Whimbrel 9001 is 6 years old mklA GRP Porters a few tins. and some pasta. * Sails; main with 2 deep slab reefing points & sail head buoy- Plus margarine, jam. marmite. ancy, genoa, jib, storm jib. tea & coffee. some fresh veg- * I plough 101b anchor with 2m chain & 30m anchorplait. grapetables onions, carrots which nel 101b with 2m chain would keep. We took squash * Flares: 2 parachute distress, 2 white handheld to make up into drinks. We * Ughtweight mkl tent also had a water purifier since * 2 long fenders for boat rollers we reckoned that a lot of the * Oars and paddle time we would be taking wa- * Ist aid box ter from streams, well this may * Head torches & 1 maglite torch have made the water safe to * Bag of assorted rope ! drink but it also made it horri- * Waterproof handheld VHF radio & spare battery, GPS ble to taste so we drank tea or * Radio (for shipping forecast) coffee when we were uncer- * Ortlieb waterproof bags for clothing and sleeping bags tain of the water! * Musto oilies, Musto pile. Buffalo. Trax, North Cape thermals * Hamesses for us both 24
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Page 1 and 2: Mull and The Small Isles Four Wayfa
Page 3 and 4: Wherever you sail there is a specia
Page 5 and 6: Oban to Loch Aline Day 1 Saturday 1
Page 7 and 8: DAY E _ _ X, 0 t _ Loch Aline to St
Page 9 and 10: Breezy lunch stop at The tides ebbs
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Page 13 and 14: To the open sea at last DAY 6 Thurs
Page 15 and 16: the dark Cuillin mountains on below
Page 17 and 18: ~*. Eigg and Rhum DAY S Satura 25 M
Page 19 and 20: anchoring is the best option below
Page 21 and 22: they are all somewhat mysteri- down
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