A very damp trip in mist and fog, again motoring all the way.
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| Leaving Sandside Bay |
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| The "Old Man of Hoy" as the mist and drizzle lifts. |
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| Bay of Skail from Skara Brae |
Entering Hoy Sound with 5 knots of tide, 1 day from a neap tide. Stromness 3/4 of a mile behind that headland.
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| At Stromness marina, "Puffin" and Sancerre had been leap frogging each other from Rassay and she was just behind me going round Cape Wrath but then went directly to Stromness. We will probably meet again at Kirkwall. |
Skara Brae
Puffin had left for Kirkwall when I got back from Skara Brea so I warped Sancerre over to the next pontoon so that I could have a go at cleaning some of the weed off of the starboard side having removed a lot from the port side on Thursday. Despite the adverts for the cleaning devise it’s very hard work and is only effective from a pontoon, not from the side of the boat when you can’t apply enough pressure.
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| After warping (moved with ropes not under engine) across the bay to the next pontoon Inshore survey vessel HMS Magpie behind. |
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| Fortunately the Rost (Roost) only forms on the west going tide. 31 miles in six and a half hours. |
37 pics and the video from Skara Brae
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