I like the idea of someone taking the laundry away!!! What a great scheme!!  Well done you on removing the net, not just avoiding it  👏 

A night stop in Mallaig and a catch up with the laundry. Since our last visit when the boat looked like a Chinese laundry an enterprising lady has started a laundry business. It’s picked up and delivered the next day. So rather than looking at a washing machine for half a day we just enjoyed Mallaig. The weather is closing in on Friday so we headed over to Eigg for the night with the intention of going to an anchorage on Mull tomorrow. On the way Claire pointed out a large mass of weed directly in front of the boat. There is a slight chance of sucking seaweed into the engine water intake so we went left to miss it. It wasn’t seaweed but a huge amount of fishing net that if we had gone over it would have certainly got wrapped around the prop and probably would have meant calling out the lifeboat. Using the spinnaker halyard we lifted the net up onto the foredeck. Arriving at Eigg we offloaded the net onto the jetty and we were met with mixed emotions from the local coastguard. He accepted the net was a danger to shipping and we had acted correctly but was concerned how they were going to dispose of it from Eigg with their limited resources. We were just glad to offload it! Look at the photos to see it!!!

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