Posted by Adam Quinan on April 20, 2006 at 02:20:54 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Best memory/experience with boats posted by David Bamford on April 20, 2006 at 01:15:17:
One of my most memorable sails was leaving Campbelltown on the south east end of the Mull of Kintyre. To catch the tides properly and avoid the worst of the tidal overfalls and currents which are very strong, we had to wait until about 5 pm, but being in the north the evenings were long.
We rounded the Mull a little before sunset and the colours and landscape, steep to bracken covered hills dropping down into the sea, was magnificent. There was a good breeze blowing and the waves and tidal race was a little exciting but once we rounded the headland and turned north as the sun set, the wind dropped a bit. We sailed up to the Island of Gigha and as we sailed in the dark all the waves and our wake had phosphorescence glowing where they were breaking.
We got into the haven and anchored about midnight in about twenty feet of water. When I dropped the anchor over the side, I could watch it glowing as it went all the way to the bottom and when I moved the anchor warp it glowed too. An eerie and fascinating sight.