Oban - Parade of Sail

We had a lazy start to the morning then got the water taxi to Oban to host the Distillery Tour. We only had a few takers for the tour but the Distillery were great and managed to sell nearly all the tickets and refunded us for those. I really enjoyed the tour.

Then it was back to the Marina to get the boats over to near the Sailing Club to assemble for the parade of sail.

We tootled around in the bay letting our young helm, graciously lent by Young Larry, get the hang of the boat and then headed off bang on time at 3:10 and led the fleet in towards the Corryvreckan (not the whirlpool, the pub on the quay), turning parallel to the promenade and past the north quay and the transit Marina. It was great looking behind and seeing the fleet following. We did see people on the shore stop to look.

© Stephen Lawson Photography

 

Two boats had joined the parade that I wasn't expecting. A Drascombe Longboat we'd seen moored on the OSC moorings and a modern gaff cutter. The cutter turned out to be Lazy Wind, OGA North Wales boat. They didn't know they'd make it so hadn't registered. Both were most welcome!

We got back to Kerrera Marina and got fuel then snuck away. I needed downtime from being sociable. We picked up one of the farm buoys behind Heather Island and settled down for a quiet evening. I cooked pasta with chorizo, our standby.

Three down, none to go. A successful event.