We left Oban fully fuelled overnight with Pizza Crunch at 7.00am on a beautiful still morning, only issue no wind to sail. Bound for a picturesque anchorage on the West coast of the island of Jura. Nothing there other than interesting navigation using old style navigation transit stones and wonderful scenery. Also raised beaches, an interesting Geography Higher/A Level question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_beach
We arrived at 3.20pm after 42 miles, motored most of the way as the wind was against us.
We attempted to anchor initially up in the smaller bay using the transits and plotter, but could not find a suitable place to rely upon the anchor. So we went back out to a bigger bay that already had a yacht at anchor. Our first attempt failed to find a hold and when we brought the anchor up we had hooked the largest amount of Kelp any of us have ever seen. Our new neighbour, who had been watching us closely remarked upon the size of our harvest!
After cleaning the seaweed off on attempt 2, The Scotsman aimed the anchor for a Sandy bit of ground and fortunately found it, so our anchor dug in and we were set for the night.
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| Goodbye Oban |
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| The Paps of Jura |
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| Raised beaches on the coast of Jura |
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| Our track |
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