End of first leg

Day 12

On the move again after a full days rest at Tobemory. First rest day after 10 days sailing

Enough time for 3 showers and a wonderful dinner at award winning Cafe Fish.

Grey drizzle and light airs as we left, enough wind to sail close hauled listening to the gurgle Swallow makes when running freely. Mull Lighthouse on the beam as we headed to a

Ardnamurchan point, open to the Atlantic and prone as a headland to be rough. Not today as visibility reduced, the famous lighthouse disappeared and we were left making headway on course via our chart plotter (a tool we have come increasingly to rely upon)

We were hoping to see the legendary vista of the islands of Muck and Egg as we progressed in the channel between the small islands and the mainland but they remained invisible in the mist.

So to Mallaig, looming out of the mist as we were flanked by fishing boats returning to port.

Not at all pretty like Tobemory, gritty working port biggest fishing fleet I have ever seen.

Moored we are backing onto to hissing thrumming fishing boats, I suspect this will go on all night.

So the first leg is over Mike and Alan will drive home on Sunday after David and Mick bring the car up, and on into the wilder parts we will go.

We have achieved our intended objective living together for 12 days on a 29 ft yacht, not a cross word, lots of anecdote and laughter, a unique and special time we won't forget.

We have covered 389 miles taking 92 hrs sailing, we have called into 9 ports, anchored twice and moored onto a buoy in Cromarty

Difficult to predict when next I will find broadband

Tomorrow night hopefully in Plockton