Monday 14 May 2012 – Kip Marina to Rothesay Bay

Leaving Kip Marina

We have started at last!  Yesterday the weather was foul – rain all day with strong wind up to gale force, so we definitely did not go anywhere.  Today was much better, with a reasonable forecast for the rest of the week.  Somehow we did not manage to leave until mid afternoon, and as soon as we got clear of the marina realised we were short of a fender.  We had earlier seen one on the bank, so went back to recover it.  Turned out not to be ours – however ours was on the next pontoon where someone had picked it up and tied it on.
The plan was to go up the Kyles of Bute, possibly to Caladh Harbour.  However after rounding Toward Point, at the start of the East Kyle, we put in the second reef, and decided the beat up the Kyle did not appeal as it was cold and would be late by the time we arrived. Picked up a mooring in Rothesay Bay. Could not be bothered to go ashore.  Maybe we will go up the Kyle tomorrow and visit the shop at Colintraive – we have an inexplicable shortage of vegetables but plenty of meat.

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