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, Bruichladdich Islay, The Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Lovely Lowlandmans Bay

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We walked the canal into the local town Lochgilphead and took the bus back.

We had hoped that by the time we got back the engineer would have sorted things out but unfortunately his verdict was not good. The engine is knackered and no remedies are available. Bad news indeed, and to cope with it we put to sea straight away (having to use use EasyStart to get the engine going.) It was nice passage down the Sound of Jura to ...

Scalasaig, Colonsay

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Another important tidal gate is in the Sound of Islay, through which we motored North today.
It divides the islands of Islay and Jura, is 8 miles long and narrows to 5 cables (that's half a nautical mile for any land lubbers) .

We arrived at Colonsay about half past nine.

We had expected a couple of visitors morring buoys but it was not very clear what ...

Craighouse, Jura

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Jura - Scottish island number five
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We departed Port Ellen with the flood tide, at 16:00.



The winds being light and on our nose were nonetheless chilly. We motored for 4 hours to pick up a visitors buoy in Chraighouse, Jura. At 22 miles by 8, Jura is longer and thiner than Islay, but is much more rugged and is home to 180 humans and 6,000 red deer. It has ...

Port Ellen, Isle of Islay

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... 7 July
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The electrical problem has been identified as a faulty fuse block, a spare has been ordered and will be fitted Friday (inshallah) so we should be on our way again Friday afternoon.


The opportunity presented itself to visit MORE distlleries. Although the basic process is the same for all distilleries, the details vary considerably and the end product also varies. ...

Ardminish, Gigha

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... we went ahsore and explored. For your own information I would recommend Wikipedia. I went south to Achamore Gardens, which were nice enough, though past their peak.

Monday morning we spent another couple of hours ashore before departing.
I was pleased to be able to identify several plants:

Pineapple Weed
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Tufted Vetch
Meadow Vetchlink
Meadowsweet
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