We stopped to buy diesel, milk, bread etc at the garage near Oakfield bridge. This might not have been a good idea as we then were held up for a while whilst a maintenance gang was replacing part of a lock gate. We had lunch while we waited and eventually left the sea lock at Ardrishaig at about 2 pm. After a while the wind got up to the level at which I would normally reef. However I don’t want to reef the genoa at present as it is not properly fixed, so took it down and put up the storm jib. The wind of course dropped off a bit and so we went very slowly. With lots of very grey low cloud it was not possible to guess if the wind would increase or not. After a while Pam caught a fish and I put the genoa up again and the mood improved. Near Ardlamont Point we saw 2 dolphins; however they must have been busy feeding as they did not take much interest in us. Caught 2 more fish in the West Kyle (of Bute) and eventually anchored at Wreck Bay by the Burnt Isles, by which time it was almost dark.
Later I found that we have 3G network here, the first for ages. I am caught out with no blog entries prepared, so it has been a long evening.
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