We visit Tobermory and get back into practice at anchoring after our winter break, but first we have to dodge the jellyfish - and they are everywhere..

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this rather large rock do not show up on

any of our charts or our pilotage notes

or our electronic charts

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supreme gator silliness lesson 94 storm

seal I'm just experimenting to see

whether my idea for a storm sale is

actually viable what you're gonna make

it out of a shower curtain possibly no I

just want to make I just want to make it

first in my call well I have a loofah

and some suds up there as well no I'm

just trying to make it out of shower

curtain because I have this idea in my

head and when I have ideas in my head I

always try and make them templates or

some kind of you know cheap materials

first and then once the cheap materials

work then you go to manufacture don't

you wait what you're saying is this is a

prototype

it is a prototype and yes I am making it

out of a shower curtain so how's the

storm curtain work a night is actually

gonna work you know basically I'm

thinking obviously I've gotta make it

into a triangle somehow and but

basically I think it could work

you know just using the hoist as the bit

that you Hank on the lift is the bit

you're lifting and then you're just

gonna make a little storm sail it might

work yeah it's worth an experiment

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well this is Tobermory and and that's

another story

apparently they stopped filming barren

more about Balamory about ten to twelve

years ago so but i'm sure it's still

airing somewhere but anyway we're

tobermory with the beautiful little

houses with all the paintwork we've got

a tall ship coming in and it just looks

fantastic

Tobermory sports a little Chandler which

is always useful when you're sailing

along with a ironmongers which also

sells wines and spirits exactly what you

need in a an mungus and of course the

normal toy see things like little tea

rooms and restaurants and all-important

co-op just in case you need to do your

shopping so a rather very picturesque

little place and certainly somewhere

that I would recommend people to come

yes it can be a bit touristy but do you

know what this is June and there's not

that many tourists the only problem with

doing the washing is when it's raining

outside and there's nine of room in the

boat to dry it

we've just had a little shower what

absolutely beautiful rainbow to finish

off after getting the shopping and

laundry done we moved the boat to marine

bar light in the bay as this was half

the cost of the pontoon then we went

exploring in salty sauce

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one thing we could not avoid heading was

the jellyfish we've never seen so many

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then we went to a close look at the Lord

Nelson

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we made some time to go in some of the

walks around Tobermory and enjoy the

view

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even the little industrial units but

eventually it was back to salty last

night time to go

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say this wrong night

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this is wearing chalets they just don't

pay it

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well Beverley's and muscles nerves are

in shreds because we've taken up the

challenge we have at last an anchorage

we're in lock Drambuie and I had wanted

to yellow miniature of Drambuie but they

didn't have any miniatures in the shop

and I didn't really fancy having a whole

bottle of it but yeah we're in a lot

Drambuie

and we're anchor and to be honest we're

a bit oh we got it right we got the

calculations right etcetera etc I've got

the scope right there's lots of things

that you have to think about when you're

anchoring and you think got a guy but as

I say we're not experts yet so it far

from experts to be honest but Oh what

the heck

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well somewhere up there is our uncle

aight it might not seem an awful lot but

it's great to actually have one and

actually using it anchor well anchoring

for Bevin is gonna be an absolute

no-brainer as far as money is concerned

because anchoring costs nothing on a

mooring ball in round Scotland costs

about fifteen pounds per night we have

paid seventeen at one hang mooring ball

whereas in a marina in Scotland twenty

pounds was the least we've paid which

was poor Alan whereas at one particular

place which was done staff niche that

was thirty-six pounds per night so it's

perfectly fine if you're going to go on

holiday even if you're sort of like

factoring that into your holiday costs

thirty-six pounds is quite reasonable

you know in comparison to say a

bed-and-breakfast or something like that

however if you're gonna do this as a way

of life this exquisite untenable because

you're talking about a grand a month so

it's just not possible for us to live

that way so we're just gonna have to get

better at anchoring so that's why we're

doing these anchor practices here in Lok

Drambuie this rather large rock did not

show up on any of our charts or our

pilotage notes or our electronic charts

and it's easily big enough to hit with

the boat and I will make him in here we

must have come very very close to that

but at high water that's completely

covered and we came in at high water

yeah but we're currently about two and a

half meters below at the minute below

high water so that rock has at least

another two and a half meters of

I do over the top which means it's at

least two and a half meters high lob

drum view is a popular Anchorage so we

soon heard company okay hold apart

change doctor Ambu II we've done our

anchoring and I have to say the second

one was a lot better wasn't about went

very very well this morning very pleased

with it yeah I agree

so me at the front has worked and we're

happy with that so now next time it'll

be me at the back and

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