We love Ardminish Bay. I always anchor on the south side level with the end of the pontoon inside all the moorings. The bottom is level and good holding in sand. The art work on that Seminole rock is exceptional LOL.
Such a great moment when the motor is turned off. And maybe it's just psychological but the sound of the water against the hull seems to change for the better too.
Give a skippers loop a go with moorings like that. You can cleat off one end on the bow, flake the line, hold half in each hand, then fling it out and over the main buoy (keep the other end between your fingers when you throw it, whatever you do :) ). The line goes under the buoy as you gently pull in, so you can cleat off the second end and go about fixing yourself to the buoy ring properly at your leisure.
I have known moorings where the float has been pulled off by that technique and the mooring sinks to the bottom, so we avoid it. Most moorings are OK but you only find out which ones are dodgy when you do it. 😄
Good to hear the points you made about gigha moorings. A few years ago while I was still quite new to sailing I stopped there when singlehanded! I eventually got tied up to a mooring however the next morning a strong easterly came in which caused it very challenging to leave with a choppy sea! In the end I climbed onto the bouy to release the rope (couldn't reached it from the deck!) And then jump back on to motor away before the wind blew me onto the boat behind me!
If you have videoed that it would get a million views on YT!!! I am lazy and would probably have got the knife out for that, but well done on the acrobatics!
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I'm sure someone did! Lol... Going back through the crinan canal another boat mentioned everyone else was watching me! Lol... The lesson I learnt that day was go and have a cup of tea and think about what your plan is first before doing anything! Yes, today I would have cut the rope and left the shackle that I used! Or even not used a shackle at all! Lol
We just pass two ropes through - one for the mooring and a slack one for backup. I guess we all live and learn. I am still impressed that you managed to clamber back aboard, I certainly would not be able to manage it 👍👍
The raising of the main with wind astern very important to know. Came in handy last year when our engine died coming into malahide estuary. Sail went up as fast as possible we turned tail & I sailed whilst John was trouble shooting. Ended up with a tow from coast guard. Turned out the prop anode had become loose and when we turned in the waves driven by aft wind pushed the anode into the wedge between hull and prop which stalled the propeller
We did manage to get the sail up, but I prefer doing it the "standard" way. That is quite a story about your anode. I have never heard of that happening before. Well done the pair of you 👍👍👍👍
One of the few good things about Inmast furling you can put your sail up in most points of sail ( in light winds). Looks like you had a lovely sail around Gigha.
What a fun video! The vistas, the calm seas, adding to the artwork of the signature stones, and seeing the local fauna. I'll be interested if you ever catch a glimpse of the Greater Spotted Snoring Gaynor. Such a coup for you! As well as the elusive singing Sir Paul McCartney, in full serenade mode on the coastline of Scotland. 🤣🤣 Thank you for sharing and stay safe!
Thank you! Gaynor did the artwork on the stones so wide awake by that point, but a bit of research shows that Mr McCartney was on the other side of the Mull at Saddell Bay 26 miles away!!!! I feel cheated 😮
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Definitely an Oyster, the two sets of three seascape windows and the black saloon windows with the curve towards the cockpit is a dead giveaway. This is probably a 565 or a 745. Oysters are my dream boats (never in my life will I'll be able to afford one). I do part time crew on a 56 and will be doing a delivery of a 485 across the Atlantic in November.
It was a big boat for sure. I suspect it was too big (or too deep) for the moorings so it anchored in about 5m of depth. There is effectively no change in height there because the Islay Amphidrome is only 10 or 15nm to the west. Anyway, enjoy your run across the Atlantic. On a big boat like that it should be a comfy run!!!
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Thanks, I'm looking forward to it, crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat has been a bucket list item for me for as long as I can remember. That boat probably was to heavy for a mooring ball, the 565 is almost 30 tons and her bigger sister the 745 comes close to 45 tons.
How about lassoing the buoy first? Then sorting yourself out. Many palaces don’t have pick up buoys and if you have a high free board it’s a bit of a nightmare! Thanks for the video.
With some buoys, lassoing the buoy can result in the float being pulled off. I have known it to happen and I would rather not chance it. Our boat does indeed have a high freeboard so we keep an old style metal end bookhook on standby for stuff like this. Glad you liked the video 👍
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass the joys of sailing. Even after 25 years and 80,000 miles sailing many single handed I got my mooring line round my prop shaft yesterday for the first time which resulted in several unplanned swims! Hey ho. Keep up the great videos.
Been there, done that so I do not envy you the job of swimming underneath. I hope that wherever you where, the water was warm. Thanks for the kind words about the video. We will do our best to keep them coming.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass The RYA school boats still seem to teach lassoing the buoy, bad practice I reckon, as you say it’ll pull the float off the riser.
U could have warned us, I had to put my sunglasses on, u certainly don't get much sun over there hey. Nice vlog, glad ur both well and as usual laughing. Good point about the buoys Bev, that's quite dangerous if the sea state was bad. Actually splashed my houseboat Mon 12th, just for a float test to see how she sat and the angles, well I'm pleased to say she was dead level and only a draft of 13cm. Mind u she's not finished yet. I was so excited I even spent the night sleeping on a mattress on the floor, waited till HT the next morn and put her back on trailer and pulled her out. But I won't be doing that again till the proper beds installed, I couldn't get off the floor with my hip, so dam funny. Will put photos on FB for u both. 🇬🇧🇦🇺🌈
Just remember that we are at 55°N here and for reference 55°S is halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica 😄 That is great news about your boat and I look forward to seeing the piccies, but please do not do your hips in.
Always time well spent with you all!
Thank you so much 👍
Lovely video. Nice weather. And one of my favourite spots: Gigha!
Thanks Hugh 👍
We love Ardminish Bay. I always anchor on the south side level with the end of the pontoon inside all the moorings. The bottom is level and good holding in sand. The art work on that Seminole rock is exceptional LOL.
Nearly as good as the Salty Lass artwork!!! It was a great place to be and the weather was lovely.
Such a great moment when the motor is turned off. And maybe it's just psychological but the sound of the water against the hull seems to change for the better too.
We both agree. The motor has its uses, but the sound of the water under sail. That is the best! Every time!!
nice one ladies and nice to see you on gigha 😊
Thank you 😊 and thanks for giving us a shout as we went past. It is a pity our paths crossed so briefly
Gigha is stunning. Hoping to get up the west coast next summer, clearly a place to visit.
It is a great place to start exploring from.
Give a skippers loop a go with moorings like that. You can cleat off one end on the bow, flake the line, hold half in each hand, then fling it out and over the main buoy (keep the other end between your fingers when you throw it, whatever you do :) ). The line goes under the buoy as you gently pull in, so you can cleat off the second end and go about fixing yourself to the buoy ring properly at your leisure.
I have known moorings where the float has been pulled off by that technique and the mooring sinks to the bottom, so we avoid it. Most moorings are OK but you only find out which ones are dodgy when you do it. 😄
Thank you both for another great geography lesson! Stunning views of Ardminish Bay . Looks like you had glorious weather. Fair winds, Ladies!!
Our pleasure! It was lovely to be in Gigha in such nice weather
Good to hear the points you made about gigha moorings. A few years ago while I was still quite new to sailing I stopped there when singlehanded! I eventually got tied up to a mooring however the next morning a strong easterly came in which caused it very challenging to leave with a choppy sea! In the end I climbed onto the bouy to release the rope (couldn't reached it from the deck!) And then jump back on to motor away before the wind blew me onto the boat behind me!
If you have videoed that it would get a million views on YT!!! I am lazy and would probably have got the knife out for that, but well done on the acrobatics!
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I'm sure someone did! Lol... Going back through the crinan canal another boat mentioned everyone else was watching me! Lol... The lesson I learnt that day was go and have a cup of tea and think about what your plan is first before doing anything! Yes, today I would have cut the rope and left the shackle that I used! Or even not used a shackle at all! Lol
We just pass two ropes through - one for the mooring and a slack one for backup. I guess we all live and learn. I am still impressed that you managed to clamber back aboard, I certainly would not be able to manage it 👍👍
The raising of the main with wind astern very important to know. Came in handy last year when our engine died coming into malahide estuary. Sail went up as fast as possible we turned tail & I sailed whilst John was trouble shooting. Ended up with a tow from coast guard. Turned out the prop anode had become loose and when we turned in the waves driven by aft wind pushed the anode into the wedge between hull and prop which stalled the propeller
We did manage to get the sail up, but I prefer doing it the "standard" way. That is quite a story about your anode. I have never heard of that happening before. Well done the pair of you 👍👍👍👍
One of the few good things about Inmast furling you can put your sail up in most points of sail ( in light winds). Looks like you had a lovely sail around Gigha.
That is indeed one of the pluses, but ours came with slab reefing, so.... 😄😄 Gigha was really nice and we had a great time
What a fun video! The vistas, the calm seas, adding to the artwork of the signature stones, and seeing the local fauna.
I'll be interested if you ever catch a glimpse of the Greater Spotted Snoring Gaynor. Such a coup for you! As well as the elusive singing Sir Paul McCartney, in full serenade mode on the coastline of Scotland. 🤣🤣
Thank you for sharing and stay safe!
Thank you! Gaynor did the artwork on the stones so wide awake by that point, but a bit of research shows that Mr McCartney was on the other side of the Mull at Saddell Bay 26 miles away!!!! I feel cheated 😮
An other enjoyable video lasses.
And what a stunning Oyster that was.
Was that big one an Oyster? I thought it was a Hanse 😄 which shows you what I know. We're glad you enjoyed the vid 👍
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Definitely an Oyster, the two sets of three seascape windows and the black saloon windows with the curve towards the cockpit is a dead giveaway. This is probably a 565 or a 745. Oysters are my dream boats (never in my life will I'll be able to afford one). I do part time crew on a 56 and will be doing a delivery of a 485 across the Atlantic in November.
It was a big boat for sure. I suspect it was too big (or too deep) for the moorings so it anchored in about 5m of depth. There is effectively no change in height there because the Islay Amphidrome is only 10 or 15nm to the west. Anyway, enjoy your run across the Atlantic. On a big boat like that it should be a comfy run!!!
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Thanks, I'm looking forward to it, crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat has been a bucket list item for me for as long as I can remember. That boat probably was to heavy for a mooring ball, the 565 is almost 30 tons and her bigger sister the 745 comes close to 45 tons.
@@dutchglobetrotter4513 - way too heavy then. The maximum rating on those buoys was 25 tonnes
Think I know that motor boat that passed you. They were road transported to the West coast from Hull.
Recognisable by the big wake? 😄😄
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass and that was from in the marina. Ha ha.
😄 Brilliant!!
How about lassoing the buoy first? Then sorting yourself out. Many palaces don’t have pick up buoys and if you have a high free board it’s a bit of a nightmare! Thanks for the video.
With some buoys, lassoing the buoy can result in the float being pulled off. I have known it to happen and I would rather not chance it. Our boat does indeed have a high freeboard so we keep an old style metal end bookhook on standby for stuff like this. Glad you liked the video 👍
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass the joys of sailing. Even after 25 years and 80,000 miles sailing many single handed I got my mooring line round my prop shaft yesterday for the first time which resulted in several unplanned swims! Hey ho. Keep up the great videos.
Been there, done that so I do not envy you the job of swimming underneath. I hope that wherever you where, the water was warm. Thanks for the kind words about the video. We will do our best to keep them coming.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass The RYA school boats still seem to teach lassoing the buoy, bad practice I reckon, as you say it’ll pull the float off the riser.
It certainly happened to one of our club buoys when I was Treasurer and we had to have it pulled up by grapnels for a replacement
U could have warned us, I had to put my sunglasses on, u certainly don't get much sun over there hey. Nice vlog, glad ur both well and as usual laughing. Good point about the buoys Bev, that's quite dangerous if the sea state was bad. Actually splashed my houseboat Mon 12th, just for a float test to see how she sat and the angles, well I'm pleased to say she was dead level and only a draft of 13cm. Mind u she's not finished yet. I was so excited I even spent the night sleeping on a mattress on the floor, waited till HT the next morn and put her back on trailer and pulled her out. But I won't be doing that again till the proper beds installed, I couldn't get off the floor with my hip, so dam funny. Will put photos on FB for u both. 🇬🇧🇦🇺🌈
Just remember that we are at 55°N here and for reference 55°S is halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica 😄 That is great news about your boat and I look forward to seeing the piccies, but please do not do your hips in.
Er...loosen the mainsheet..let the boom swing free....
It was free, but I presume you mean "even freer than that"?
The famous cut off shorts from the squeaker episode
My jeans are under constant attack from Gaynor's sewing basket...
Actually, having just sat down, I think my jeans are also under attack from the biscuit barrel and possibly the toaster.... 😲