Oban to Loch Spelve

Mark Rosenthal

Luke came on board at 03:00 We spent the morning doing jobs such as mending the lazyjack sailbag zip and straightening out and re-furling the Code Zero We left the pontoon around 11 and headed out to follow Moonraker out towards the Sound of Mull. Almost as soon as we set off the ferry started to move so we had to loiter for a while. We flew the code zero as we left the harbour area and passed Moonraker to say a last goodbye on their passage to Iceland, then headed up to sail across to Loch Spelve. Sailing southwest towards our destination in glorious sunshine along the coast of Mull. We followed 1 yacht into the loch but they went to the western area of the lock whereas we went round the massive fish farm areas to the north. We had anchored at 15:45 after motoring up through the narrow passage and shortly after there came 3 other yachts and anchored in the same area. We launched the tender and went ashore via the fish farm pontoon. The fish farm is a fantastic facility with an honesty jar for buying mussels. We bought a bag 2kg ready for our dinner and then went for a walk to look for deciduous trees. On spotting several large oak trees Al and I turned and walked back. Collecting our mussels and a bag of ice from the ice maker we got back to the launch to go back to the boat when Mr Jogger, Luke, reappeared and we all returned to FlairIV to create our dinner of way to many mussels! I made a white wine sauce with some of my crème franchise.