OWNER REPORT
Boysterous Round
Scotland
By Colin Hall, Oyster 53, Boysterous
About a year ago, I was sitting in the cockpit of our Oyster 53, Boysterous,
contemplating the world. We’d crossed the Atlantic four times, explored the
Azores and the Mediterranean, and wintered in the Caribbean and the
Canaries. ‘What’s next?’ I asked myself.
‘Not the world’, I answered, because while Oyster owners know that the world is
indeed our oyster, I thought the world would take too long. However, there’s a limit
to how often you need to cross the Atlantic and I had often thought that sailing
Round Britain is every bit as much of a challenge: tides, weather, rocks, oil rigs,
traffic, fog and other hazards that you rarely experience on the oceans.
So, the plan was hatched that after wintering in Lanzarote we would bring Boysterous
home and go round Britain, but unlike many others, we would go round Britain,
and Ireland, and all their offshore rocks and islands – outside everything. This part
of the story is our trip to and through Scottish waters.
WHO ARE ‘WE’?
Bernard Lightbound, Hamble resident and member of the Royal Air Force Yacht
Club, is a frequent crew on Boysterous including a win in the ARC Europe from
Bermuda to the Azores.
John Laczik is an Oxford University engineering Don and third time ocean voyager
on Boysterous.
As for me, Colin Hall, sons Alastair and Matthew announced in 2002 that they
wanted to sail across the Atlantic. And so we did in 2003, and I haven’t really
stopped sailing long distances since, first in our Oyster 406 Boysterous, and now
in the Oyster 53. My wife Naomi doesn’t do the long bits but joins us for ‘bays
and islands’ when we get there. >
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