Vatersay to Canna

We poured over the pilot books trying to decide where to go next. The weather was calm but variable for a little while, but we didn't want to get stuck north of Ardnamurchan and miss our own rally in Kererra at the end of the month.

Coll and Tiree are closest to Vatersay but have no anchorages good enough for changeable weather.

We decided to go to Canna, which is a bit in the wrong direction, but nearer everywhere else.

It's about 36 nm from Vatersay to Canna. We didn't get away until 10 am but that felt OK.

We went south around Muldoanich, we allowed us to sail. The wind went very light and we put the line out and caught 4 mackerel instantly. One was huge. I put one of the normal sized ones back.

The trip to Canna was uneventful. We got some wind we could use for some of it and motored the rest.

I split the time between cleaning the fish and scallops, cooking them and eating them, preparing for my first class of the new Gaelic course and reading Johnson and Boswell.

We had the scallops as a starter for lunch. Just fried in butter. Lovely.

At Alison's suggestion, I cooked the mackerel with a sweet apple. That turned out brilliantly. We had sautéed potatoes too and it made a big lunch. George was helming and the weather was lovely.

We got to Canna about 8:30 in the evening and picked up a mooring buoy. It had lost its pickup buoy but it was easy to grab the rope.

North coast of Canna

Canna Harbour is an EE dead spot.