People will tell you that Lamlash is a sheltered mooring place. Well, it is not in a NE wind. We should have thought about it more carefully and gone somewhere else. Anyway in the early hours the boat started to move about in an increasing wind and chop from the NE. Some time before breakfast I let the keel right down as it had been bumping about in spite of my “hold right up” device. The mooring was good and strong, so there was no worry about that. We considered heading to Millport or somewhere in that direction – a long way dead to windward. Or going to Campbeltown – this would be downwind, but seemed a bit of a one-way trip which we were unhappy about. Another option was to anchor beside Holy Island. It did not appear to be a very secure anchorage and if we had to come back we would have had difficulty picking up the visitors’ mooring again (these all have a shackle on the top and no pick-up buoy). Anyway we just stayed put, pitched and rolled a lot, read and knitted and got pretty fed up. The forecast kept saying that the wind would drop to 3-4 but id did not seem to change.
