Back home for a while

The Kinlochbervie Harbour Master sold us a one month Highland Harbours pass for just over £115. This was much cheaper than the £330 he would have had to charge for a two week stay in his harbour! (These numbers of course reflect the fact that Robinetta is only 7m long).

Julian worked on board on Monday while I did the laundry and filled up with diesel, and we then moved Robinetta from the pontoon closest to the harbour entrance over to the one that is actually marked for visitors on our 2016 chart plotter. This only had one small yacht on it, that had obviously not moved in a while, and no water or power. Access to the floating pontoon was down a vertical ladder rather than a ramp, but the pontoon was well maintained and seemed a much better place to leave her than the other pontoon, where she would have been rather in the way for larger yachts coming in for a single night's stay.

On Tuesday we caught the 08:50 mini bus for a very scenic ride to Inverness. We hope to be back at the weekend by car, finally re-uniting Robinetta with her tender Worm, and bringing more fuel for her cooker. We have used 11litres of denatured bio-ethanol since April (some in her heater at the start of the year) and it is not available in many places.