Wiser after the event.

Out boating this weekend, off to Troon on the Saturday then a great sail the next day up the West side of Bute, about 29' doing it in 5 hours with a wee bit of genoa out, same tack all the way.  Initially we anchored opposite Tighnabruaich but the wind got up from the East so I thought a move to the sheltered waters of Colintraive would be a better bet for the night.  We picked up one of the Hotel's mooring buoys and initially all was well but by midnight the wind was screaming down the hill straight of the shore.  By 7:30 in the morning I'd had enough, we let go and motored down the Kyle with the wind on the port beam, by Loch Striven it was 40 knots plus, but we persevered.  It was a rough old passage across to Great Cumbrae when the NE wind coming down the river met the East wind screaming down the hill at Largs and the seas were all over the place.  Got into the marina and amazingly managed to get onto the berth without any casualties, and minimal shouting, soaked with salt spray and our little legs had all gone jelly like.  Forecast was a NE 5 or 6 but the local conditions around Largs and Loch Striven funnel and increase the wind to gale force.  On our drive back at Kip we noticed a yacht out with full sail up, 6 miles further south he would have been on his beam ends.  From now on I'm not going out anywhere when the wind is from the East.