I think you have to be careful staying in the inner harbour at Eigg. You might just find it too comfortable and sociable and keep finding reasons not to move on. One boat which we met there last year was still there and seems to have taken root and become part of the community. So we decided to go across to Castlebay on Barra, which is about 45 miles. No problem with a fair wind, so we set off and hoped that the wind might fill in when we left the shelter of the islands. However the wind never really made it and with that sort of distance to cover it’s no good drifting along at 2 or 3 knots, so we motored most of the way apart from the last 2 hours. It’s good that I had just cleaned the prop while dried out at Eigg as a small amount of fouling makes a big difference. On the way we listened to the details of the Mallaig lifeboat going to help a fishing boat a few miles away. It had got a fouled prop and eventually the lifeboat took it in tow to Mallaig, which they said would take 3-4 hours, longer than I had expected.
Saw 1 Minke whale, briefly + a couple of seals + some porpoises.
Follow our
track on Google Maps.
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| Sgurr of Eigg |
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| The mountainous island of Rum |
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| Approaching Barra |
