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In the morning we took the dogs for a walk, Sue did some packing and cleaning and at 0930 we moved to the fuel berth. Just prior to...

We’d decided we might revisit the pool which looked like a good place for lunch but after breakfast it was looking a little gloomy for a...

We left about 0930 and motored through the narrows at the head of Loch Lochy then set the genoa and sailed lazily down the loch at 2-4...

I’d omitted to mention an episode with Smudge on the first day. Smudge is a lovely dog, a cross poodle and Spaniel rescue dog, she has a...

A dreich morning greeted us, we were in no hurry but because of this it was after 0900 before we got away having done nothing much other...

With the lock due to open for us at 0845 we just had time to squeeze in a bacon and egg breakfast before weighing anchor. We set up for...

Those wind gods were happy. We didn’t tack once and sailed past Buckie before finding that the wind was losing it’s oomph. When I went to...

After some time we saw fog banks and presently were in fog. This continued for a couple of hours but by 1130 we had a breeze from astern...

It’s a beautiful morning although there’s currently no wind and we’re motoring. We’re off the Southern tip of Norway and getting a signal...

After our evening with Manus the girls spent the morning showering and cleaning, I put some laundry in the machine, up at the showers,...

We had tea and a potter in the morning and the couple on the little motor boat ahead of us came for some water from us which we gave them...

My alarm awoke me at 0545 and I got up, started the engine and weighed the anchor, setting course through the mid Vanern Archipelago. By...

Having climbed the ladder of locks at Berg the night before and feeling pleased for having got ahead of ourselves we had showers in the...

Having showered and breakfasted we left at about  ten to nine to be at the bridge a few hundred metres away at 9 O’clock for the...

I went for a walk around lunch time in the park opposite the toon, up the 70m mountain. I took the precaution of taking the pamphlet with...

I tidied up a bit in the morning and put on a couple of washes in the machines. The washing machine had three controls; an on / off...

We had a comfortable night with the anchor and line across the bay holding us off the rocks. I omitted to say in my blog yesterday that a...

The wind and rain arrived some time in the night. I awoke to a truly disgusting, Argyll, kind of day with continuous heavy rain and wind...

Landsort Museum Final rock berth in the Skargard In the morning a boat had left from one of the berths upwind of us. The space had a...

Once a morning dip had been had we prepared to leave and, indeed, left the most beautiful bay in the Skargard, according to our...