SAILING SCOTLAND Pt5 | Transiting The CRINAN CANAL Scotland's Historic Waterway.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
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Welcome to our journey through Scotlands historic waterway - The Crinan Canal between Ardrishaig and Crinan on the Stunning West Coast of Scotland! ⛵️🏴
Join us as our journey continues, as we transit The Crinan Canal from Ardrishaig to Crinan. In this mesmerizing video series, you'll witness the untamed wilderness, picturesque islands, and the magic of the open sea.
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One tip. Make up a bung for the limber hole from the bilge compartment with the transducer, to stop water going into the next deeper compartment, and use it when you pull the transducer. Don't forget to remove the bung when you have sponged up all the water. Paddle wheel transducers are regularly fouled in seawater and I always removed mine and put in the blanking bung whenever I left the boat for more than a few days.
Ah great memories of Crinan and the canal and Ardrishaig on family holidays 60+ years ago. Enjoying this trip! Safe onward travels.
Thank you Nigel 👍. Bet the area has changed since you were there all those years ago?
Awesome
Thank you 👍
Three dashes means that there is a fault with a signal somewhere in your network; the 0.0 shows that the network is working, even if the speed was reading zero. I suspect you may have a loose connection somewhere, or their is a fault within the speed transducer perhaps? We lived on the canal in one of the cottages on the summit reach for 11 years. The canal is fed from a number of streams, mainly to the south, but levels can run low in the summer at times. We run a yacht charter business which was based at Bellanoch in the canal, and could often get four boats into a single lock chamber - all between 35 and 44'!
The back bar at Crinan can be very social - you must have been unlucky on your visit as it is our preferred place to dine - and we now live a 15 miles drive away!
Most enjoyable episode! Love Jess showing off her diving skills! Also, thanks for educating us on the Crinan channel!👍
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. 👍
Am loving this Sailing Scotland series. Great stuff, thanks!
Glad you enjoy it, thanks for watching 👍
You can just replace the impellor/paddlewheel and its spline. It saves a shed load of cash. When you clean them use WD 40 as assists the movement and disuades the little critters that block it up. Good video thank you.
Thank you for your reply, didn’t think of using WD40. 👍
Jess makes me laugh! 🤣
We live in Oxfordshire but have been to Scotland a few times with our caravan and loved all the scenery, but watching it from your yacht it is far far better, loving your journey, and of course Jess, also loved your Routemaster series.
Places I’ve never even heard of. Great video. Old Jess could swim for Wales!
Yeah but her diving needs improvement 🤣
Another great Video Dave… lovely to see Jess enjoying her swim.. make the most of that .. used to love watching my border collie Pepsi having a dip in the river … sadly she passed away just over a month ago at age 14&1/2 years. 🙏🏼🐾💔🐾🌈
Will do David. Jess is my 5th Lab so I know exactly what you mean. 😢
I sail on a number of boats and their owners have a variety of approaches to the speed transducers - some take them out every time they leave the boat, some only if they are going to be away more than a day or two - but in my own personal experience, they get pulled out regularly - it keeps things from growing on them. Note that I sail in a marginally warmer clime (in and near New York), which is a factor. But what I'm saying is, don't be afraid of pulling it out and popping in the bung instead.
That’s good advice thank you. I think I will take it out during winter. 👍
Staff on the canal are great. If you buddy up with another boat it always makes the locks easier. Also if you rig your forward line through a block positioned near the fair lead (on toe rail it soft shackled to cleat) and back to the cockpit you can control it from the cockpit on a winch. Rig the stern line the same - means you can control distance from wall as you go up/ down while crew deal with lock gates etc.
Thanks Kevin. I’ll do that next time. 👍
Should have turned right and head up to Tobermory… safe travels
Unfortunately time was against us and it was getting late in the season so we needed to head south. Will be back next year and plan to head up that way. 🤞
I think for peace of mind I would be tempted to have an air horn for some of those blind turns although Jess might not agree.
" The Town of Crinan? Must be the first time its been called that.🙂
Fair point, there wasn’t much there apart from a hotel with a miserable manager. 😜
Quite like the dark dingy bar. Think you have to expect to pay a dear price for a pint at the edge of the world. Yes it’s odd but far better than no beer
2:50 you said that there are no more locks which is correct but what you got wrong is when you said there are no more locks until you start descending, that’s wrong because once you reach lock 4 in Cairnbaan it keeps going up hill until you reach lock 10 then it starts going down
From Ardrishaig you go uphill on lock 1, 2, 3 and 4 and then there is a big long stretch without any locks, then you reach lock 4 and you are still going uphill and even at lock 5, 6 and 7 you are still going uphill until you reach the summit then after that you start going down
The maximum height is 21m above sea level
Unfortunately the Cairnbaan Hotel had to permanently close down due to unforeseen circumstances and cost of living crisis. Now Cairnbaan has no hotel
Hi Dave
Just subscribed etc and enjoying your videos.
I have a Bav36 at Conwy too on D leg….I love it to bits!!
I saw it next to another B36 on the hard…
Your boat confuses me….your wood is a lighter colour than mine (2003). But you don’t have the lower cabin lights and the revised and later binnacle with the integral fibreglass extension and folding table a Cruiser has??
It really looks more like a non cruiser model in my book…
Anyway I’m looking forward to bumping into you at Conwy
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan. Glad you are enjoying the videos. Thank you for watching and subscribing.
I was told by the previous owner that when she was made in 2005 it was the during the transition between the 36 and 37. Apparently she was one of the last 36’s to be built before the revised 37 went into production. That’s how he explained the lighter wood finish so maybe that also explains the binnacle and lights?
Will have to meet for a coffee at the marina sometime? I’m going to be there quite a bit for the next week or so as I’m redoing the antifoul while she’s out on the hard.
Given the water must run out into the sea at both ends of the canal and the tourist traffic must have increased its usage over the years you'd think they'd run out of water in the summer months?
Good point. I assume there are various inlets of water supply through the canal that keep it topped up?
@@sailingmadness That lake may be part of that, canals often have them at intervals when large elevation changes.
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Your TWS should be calculated using SOG not STW, therefore should not be affected by the paddlewheel not working.
Hi Edward. Thanks for your reply. Not sure you’re correct there…
Accoring to Raymarine it's not possible to calculate TWS from SOG.
True Wind is calculated from apparent wind plus speed-through-water and as you know STW data comes from the paddle-wheel.
Not sure if other manufactures do it differently but Raymarine say if you have apparent wind and the display for true wind is showing as dashes (as mine is) then this is due to the speed data not coming in.
You're talking about Ground Wind Speed GWS - - Speed off wind over ground . TWS is defined as speed of the wind over the water
You should be able to get a new paddle wheel instead of changing the whole transducer.
Definitely! Usually you can push out the pin in the middle of the paddlewheel and pop in a new one.