Summer Cruising in Scottish Waters

This is a blog post about the future... pictures of places I have never visited by boat, but which are on the itinerary of Toucando's circumnavigation of Britain.  There are crew vacancies for all these legs.  If you are interested please get in touch at toucando(at)citybeat(dot)org(dot)uk.  There will be some fantastic sailing, and some equally enjoyable weekend events with people who share an enthusiasm for traditional boats.

The weekend of 8th-9th June we will be in Belfast.  Special arrangements are being made by the harbour authorities for the gaffer fleet to moor in the docks.  There will be visits to local sights and partying ashore.

On Monday 10th June we will be heading off towards the west coast of Scotland.  There are lots of interesting places to visit on the way, such as the island of Islay.

I understand that there are some interesting attractions well worth a visit:

On the weekend of 15th and 16th June we will be anchoring in Loch Melfort for celebrations with the west of Scotland Gaffers:

We will call in at Oban to enable crew to embark or disembark:

Then we'll have a few days sailing around Mull - perhaps calling at Tobermory.

We'll sail back to Oban on Wednesday 20th June.  Then we'll be heading towards Fort William stopping off at Corpach at the entrance to the Caledonian Canal:

We'll spend the weekend transiting the Canal.  Who knows what we might see on the way?

I am hoping that we'll be heading out into the Moray Firth on Monday.  The weekend of 29th-30th June we'll be at Anstruther on the Fife coast.

On Monday 1st we'll cross the Firth of Forth to Eyemouth, just north of Berwick on Tweed:

Three and a bit weeks of visiting some of the most interesting harbours in Scotland. After that it's back to England.