Saturday 19 May 2012 – Lamlash to Holy Loch

At last, overnight, the wind and swell went down to a comfortable level.  So we felt an urgent need to get out of Lamlash to somewhere more comfortable – or at least different.  It would have been nice to visit Holy Island, but we were no longer in the mood for any more of Lamlash, so that will have to wait for another day.

We sailed fairly slowly to a lunch stop at St Ninian’s Bay, which is on Bute, behind Inchmarnock.  After lunch we contacted Simon and Margaret, hoping to meet in the Kyles of Bute.  However they had only time for a brief trial sail before visiting the shops to provision the ship as they had only launched the previous day.  So we sailed and motored round the southern tip of Bute and made our way up to Holy Loch, which seemed a very long way in light conditions.  Here we at last Met Simon and Margaret who have kept their Hunter Delta “Panache” in Holy Loch marina since early last summer.  We shared a meal and planned to go sailing together tomorrow.

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Inchmarnock on R. Arran behind.