west highland yachting week
Jump aboard for West Highland Yachting event after the Scottish Series. The regatta circumnavigation of Lismore.
Week! has a distinctive blend of competitive racing
combined with a varied après sail social The fleet splits into the Tunnocks’ Spinnaker
Why not take part in West Highland programme of family events which includes Fleet and the Argyll Fleet for restricted sail
Yachting Week from 30th July to 6th August swimming and cinema nights, headline bands, classes, particularly popular with charter
2010, a historic and unique sailing regatta rugby, football, barbecues and a formal boats and families. There is a mid-week
measuring up to a fun-filled week on land Skipper’s reception. passage race to Tobermory, the sailor’s
and sea? Top class racing, great camaraderie favourite destination with the next day’s
and a fantastic social programme all set Feeder races from the Clyde, Gigha and Oban racing set against the backdrop of the Inner
amongst spectacular scenery – it is an event bring yachts to Craobh Marina where the Hebrides and the Ardnamurchan peninsula,
not to be missed. Entries to this popular regatta starts. Over 750 competitors enjoy before a final passage race back to Oban
event have steadily increased in recent this migratory event where the first passage where the regatta finishes.
years, particularly from charter and visiting race is to Oban with racing thereafter in the
boats, and as a result WHYW has evolved Firth of Lorne. This is a mix of Olympic style See www.whyw.co.uk for full details.
into the west coast’s second biggest sailing and inshore sailing and, when tides permit, a
birds of prey
It was Laura that saw it first. ‘You should see find out, and was soon rowing quietly between
the bird over there. It swooped down and the islands. ‘No question about it, and there’s
lifted a fish out of the water’. She and her two a pair’ I whispered excitedly as a second bird
fellow students from Abertay University had soared overhead, ‘and there’s the nest’. I
been rowing around our idyllic anchorage. We had seen the original osprey nest at Boat
were just one days sail from our base in Craobh of Garten some years before, and this was
Haven, and we were due to return there almost identical, built on the top of a dead tree.
the next day. It was the first chance we had
had on our new Sun Odyssey 44i ‘Kea’, and Following our return to Craobh I did a little
she had to be back for her next charter. research; fellow charter operators confirmed
that they also knew of osprey nest sites along
We had been lucky. It was sunny and a fresh the Argyll coast, as well as sea eagles, golden
wind had given us a cracking sail. ‘It sounds eagles and buzzards.
like an Osprey’ I replied, not quite believing
myself. I thought ospreys lived inland, and Muir Anderson, Flamingo Yacht Charters
fished in fresh water lochs. I couldn’t wait to www.fy-charter.co.uk
www.sailscotland.co.uk
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