No snow but plenty of wind

As the rest of the country gets a blanket of snow, here on the West coast we are having a good sunny day but backed up by a gale force 8 Easterly coming off the mainland.  Our sailing to Colonsay has been cancelled, in an Easterly the pier is completely exposed.  Looks like we may be in for this wind for 24 hours or more, the Mull sailings are continuing but we are running late as berthing is taking a lot longer than usual.