What a difference a day makes.

Day starts with sunshine and a yoga session in the cockpit, prior to
bacon butties. We set off looking at a poor unfortunate who had
anchored too close to the shore and with the wind shift overnight was
lying over at a perilous angle, a few hours tide will sort him out.
Going aground can happen to the best of people.
Back out into the Sound of Mull where we ran up to Loch Aline with the
SE wind yesterday which has now become a NW'ly 5 so a little bit of
genoa and we're off. Duart Castle flashes by and the south end of
Kerrera beckons within the hour. Up the Sound and we are tied up in
the marina at Oban for lunch. Wall to wall sunshine and a pitying
glance at those heading up the Sound hard pressed against the wind.
For those interested in Ardinmar Bay the outer starboard beacon has
become two right next to each other, the inner starboard one is
missing and there is a new port hand inner. A comprehensive survey
with me in the rubber dinghy shows that the outer reef extends way out
from the markers. When transiting keep well to the south or port hand
side, there is water up to 5 metres off the port hand mark, the
starboard hand mark needs a good 10 to 12 metres clearance.