Selkie Dancer, Inverness - 15th May 2006
Hello again! Realise I made a complete hash with our web address on the first update I sent so the link wouldn't have worked. It is http://web.mac.com/selkiedancer and as before the user name is xxxxxx and the password xxxxxx. That said we are not managing to update the site - these e mails do that. However our programme is there and we do seem to be following this with a few little swerves along the way.
We had some fantastic days in lovely OBAN. The washing was making a colourful dance around the boat and was dry in no time - a contrast to here where our cabin resembles a Chinese Laundry and is officially the drying room.
We had a beautiful sail up to Fort William, sails out both sides, gliding up the Loch with Ben Nevis as I've rarely seen her snow topped against a blue blue sky.
The Caledonian Canal has been interesting. Went up the first part, a series of eight locks called Neptune’s Staircase, with a fishing boat from Peterhead and for a lot of the time one of their crew was on our boat as he was so taken with it. We stopped at Laggan and went and had a drink on a barge moored there. You can also get meals there and it looked a fun place. At the Fort Augustus locks with the sun still out we became a tourist attraction as by now there were four boats going through, two motor boats, a navy survey ship and us. I descended the four or five locks there for the first time completely alone on the boat while Andy walked the lines down. We stayed there for a day and then left early on Sunday to pick up a friend at Drumnadrochit. Very nervous approaching this bit, not because of the monster but it is quite shallow and there was little space to manoeuvre in the tiny harbour.
Coming here feels very close to home and we are catching up with some friends. It will be strange to be in the Moray Firth in the coming week.
That's all for now and we'll keep you posted.
Jinti and Andy
Hello again! Realise I made a complete hash with our web address on the first update I sent so the link wouldn't have worked. It is http://web.mac.com/selkiedancer and as before the user name is xxxxxx and the password xxxxxx. That said we are not managing to update the site - these e mails do that. However our programme is there and we do seem to be following this with a few little swerves along the way.
We had some fantastic days in lovely OBAN. The washing was making a colourful dance around the boat and was dry in no time - a contrast to here where our cabin resembles a Chinese Laundry and is officially the drying room.
We had a beautiful sail up to Fort William, sails out both sides, gliding up the Loch with Ben Nevis as I've rarely seen her snow topped against a blue blue sky.
The Caledonian Canal has been interesting. Went up the first part, a series of eight locks called Neptune’s Staircase, with a fishing boat from Peterhead and for a lot of the time one of their crew was on our boat as he was so taken with it. We stopped at Laggan and went and had a drink on a barge moored there. You can also get meals there and it looked a fun place. At the Fort Augustus locks with the sun still out we became a tourist attraction as by now there were four boats going through, two motor boats, a navy survey ship and us. I descended the four or five locks there for the first time completely alone on the boat while Andy walked the lines down. We stayed there for a day and then left early on Sunday to pick up a friend at Drumnadrochit. Very nervous approaching this bit, not because of the monster but it is quite shallow and there was little space to manoeuvre in the tiny harbour.
Coming here feels very close to home and we are catching up with some friends. It will be strange to be in the Moray Firth in the coming week.
That's all for now and we'll keep you posted.
Jinti and Andy
