We plan to catch the tide going up the Sound of Jura to send us on our way. This means we don't need an early start. Time then to listen to the weather at 0810, and decide if its calm enough. The forecast has almost completely changed from the night before, so its a definite, we are off to Oban! We catch a bit of a shower as we come down the loch (Ivans turn to get wet!), then round the tip, and head North, and almost immediately we pick up the tide. So its foresail up, engine off, and sit back and enjoy the amazing scenery! Its like a panorama on a film, as the landscape all around us, slowly slips past (well, at a respectable 6 or 7 knots). Its stunning. The sun is out, and we don't get any more rain. On one stretch their is a bit of a swell on our stern, which makes it a bit rocky rolly, but small fry compared to the Mull of Kintyre!
We make good time, and pootle in to the marina at Kererra island, Oban about 2.00pm, and have had probably the most comfortable sailing, in the most beautiful of places.
The marina runs a ferry to Oban, and we get the 3.00pm one, and head off to start restocking the larders of food, and beer, ready for the guests we have coming to visit over the next few weeks.
The sea plane landed while we were there......
You can just make out Happy Daze.....its the big green one in the middle!
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