Home to Glasgow
A two and a half hour bus ride back to Glasgow and I'm home again.  Good to be back in the dear green place.
We had a wee problem on the ship yesterday with the forward ramp, no pressure on the engineers but we arrived in Craignure with 60 odd cars all facing forward and the ramp wouldn't go down.  All eyes on the Chief Engineer as he struggled away to get the damn thing to work.
Half an hour or so later and we managed to get the cars rolling again.  Unfortunately the automatic system was defunct and it was 00:30 before it was back in full operation again.  Late night all round.

Back to Normal

I find that when the weather is good, as it has been the last couple of days, I don't enjoy the job on here as much as when it is overcast and wet.  I think that it is my inbred Scottish sense of pessimism that knows there are only going to be so many good days in a Scottish summer and I would rather be on leave when they come about, than on here working and watching those lucky enough to have a fair wind and tide to sail up the Sound to Tobermoray, with a quiet night at anchor to look forward to.

Nothing to worry about though, back to normal today, strong easterly winds with rain.  I had some American visitors on the bridge today, unfortunately they were dressed for a North Carolina June day not the West coast of Scotland.

Across the Bay

It was such a lovely day today, which you would normally think would be great but I could only think about what a fantastic day it was to be to be out sailing.  The photo is of our ferry peeking through the rigging of the Jubilee Sailing Trust Lord Nelson.  There are also a couple of super yachts in the Bay and then we had an unexpected visit from the Islay ferry tonight, unfortunately the new vessel Finlaggan has broken down and blocked the mainland ferry port at Kennacraig so the other ferry came here to discharge and load up.

Half way through the week tomorrow, the second week always seems to go much quicker.  Busy days as ever nearly always full, so if you were thinking of travelling to Mull on here I would encourage you to book.

Oban Bay

Any more of this and we'll be starting to expect it every day!

Shock Horror!

I am very pleased to report that for the first time, that I can recall in the last month or so, there was no rain.  Indeed the sun has been shining since I started this morning and there has been a gentle breeze from the south.

Fantastic sailing weather, certainly there was plenty of yachts out and about today, all well behaved I must add.

Bit of an irony that on the day a drought order is announced in the East coast they have some of the heaviest rain in months.

On the water again

Hi Folks, Joined the Isle of Mull at lunchtime today and set off in the sunshine for Mull.  Seems that the number of passengers over the last few weeks is down on previous years, lets hope that things pick up. Maybe people are wondering if they want to have electricity & gas or a trip over the water, the cost of both isn't possible.