We arrived back in Kinlochbervie yesterday, new crew Robert Langford
joining Richard, Roger and I. Today we wait. We have checked various weather
forecasts, and it seems that tomorrow the conditions might be acceptable for
progressing to Scrabster. The skipper of the boat behind us told us it would be 's**t' for us trying to get to Scrabster. Later he said it wasn't as bad as the forecasts. We wonder and speculate. We took delivery of diesel in jerry cans and emptied
them into Blue Star’s tank. We visited the local Spar shop, then went for
coffee at Kinlochbervie hotel, before returning for lunch on board Blue Star. A
French flagged boat, Calobra, with aluminium hull came to berth ahead of us. It
made a poor approach and scraped down our starboard hull. We moaned at the
skipper and asked him to make a donation to charity as recompense, which he said he would do. We asked about his experience at sea today - he said he was 'promised' 15 knots and got 22knots. Hhmm. We ponder the weather again. Richard is
cooking dinner tonight – haggis I think he said! We will check the weather forecasts
again too.
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| Coming back from 'coffee' |
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| The french boat that scraped our hull |
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